@Air-Dynamic:

You wrote: „ACMI varies between11500 and 14000 per hr”

What does ACMI stand for?
Do you mean operating costs?
What per hour? Dollar, Pound or Rubel?

ACMI, Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance, Insurance.

I know the 2 Mi26's in Sudan are being managed by a company from South Africa that specializes in Russian Mi's and Kamov's..check out for interest.

www.titanhelicopters.com

...they had a Mi26 in SA doing ship salvage about a 2 months ago, operated by Russian crew who seemed to do a very good job.

I used to fly for Titan and I know the rates are a lot cheaper for the Mi8's than quoted earlier in this post. The maintenance is also very professional and a South African AMO has the only (as far as I know) fully Russian factory approved Western engine overhaul facility.

I watched the Mil 26 depart Mt Hagen (PNG) around 98ish...it was enroute to Jayapura I think and then on to whereever...it was loaded to the gunnels with 'stuff' from spares to all sorts of 'personal' items :E of the crew.

Given that it can apparently carry 20 tonnes internal, or on the sling, I would hate to think what she was carrying that day...it taxied out and did a running takeoff using the runway (not unusual because a hovering departure even light would blow everything for miles over)...but it's takeoff roll was REALLY long and the coning from the main rotor blades as it finally lifted off was awesome....it must have taken a good 700m to accelerate through translation before lifting off and lumbering over the hills to the north...not even a hint they might do a farewell flyby:uhoh:

Aye all

I met a Skytech's guy named Derek in Abbottabad - Pakistan last week and he was running the show with several Skytech's MI 17 and one MI 26T from Rostov Avia .

He told me that he was on site since early November, flying non stop.

The WFP's MI 26 from TITAN is in fact a MI 26T owned and operated by the Russian company VERTIKAL-T of Tver in Russia

I remember in 1992 when looking for a job in Europe I met the Skytech's boss - he was very young about mid-twenties and very cool, running the show with a few MI 17s, one MI 10K, and one MI 26T (registered RA 06041) and flying himself the MI 26 too

The fleet was then based on the TEAMCO's ramp at Brussels Airport (Teamco was in charge of the maintenance of the US ARMY helicopters based in Europe)

I went to the interview with Skytech peoples but didn't got a job

Till mid nineties, Skytech was everywhere in the magazines like Rotor & Wing, Heli World, Heli International etc... but now they seems to be very discreet.

Only a recent article in September or November in Flight Magazine about Russian Heli ops mentionned Skytech operating in Yemen and Central Africa !

Very strange also this article said something about British specops MI 17 maintained by Skytech in Nepal ( CIA or MI6 ? )

I asked Derek about curent activities in the company but he told me that he didn't know with a smile, then I asked him how he got the job - " I applied " he said - leuhhhh

I asked him how to contact and he said www.skytech-helicopters.com - but otherwise friendly and joking

A Belgian spotter confirmed me that two Skytech's MI 26 are currently based in Brussels South Airport and according to the photos in www.Airliners.net another Skytech's MI 26 in Congo Air Force schemes was parked all this summer on the Military apron of Liège Airport

Aye Juan - alive and running -:mad:

Aye - does anybody hear about a Kamov 32 going to Chile for firefighting ? and apparently ex-Spain ??
Juan

Mi 26
 

To see an Mi 26 up close,look at pg 102 on WHO's WHO": What do you fly? Where?

Believe me, iot is HUGE when you get up close.

Regards,
Iain

Mi 26
 

To see an Mi 26 up close,look at pg 102 on WHO's WHO": What do you fly? Where?

Believe me, it is HUGE when you get up close.

Regards,
Iain

Sorry flightmedic1, your link is to the wrong thread - it's page 102 of 'ROTORHEADS AROUND THE WORLD' : Photo Gallery

Nice pics, by the way. :ok:

I remember flying into Mt Hagen I think it was, up in PNG one time in a Baron, and a Mi-26 was on the tarmac. It dwarfed the other aircraft on the ground and the sheds they called a "terminal" - it looked almost surreal, such a huge machine, fuselage the size of a 737 (bigger?) with rotors on top just makes you want to walk around it in awe and wonder. The tail rotor of 7.61m diameter is not much smaller than the main rotor of a 206 at 10.16m.

When a Mi-26 came in to Goroka, they hover taxi'd instead of rolling, and blew at least one roof off the old shanty houses opposite the Air Niugini terminal.

Here's another picture of that Chinook sling job:
http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/ne...airlift_1a.jpg

Couple more Mi-26 on the page this came from: http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/ne...hinooks_3.html

Mi.26 the worlds largest helicopter?
 

It does look big but??????

Mi.26 the worlds largest helicopter?
 

...but what? Annnnd you forget the Mil V-12.

Mil V-12 is the largest ever built. Mi-26 is the largest flying today!

Mi-26 is also largest to enter production, since the V-12 never got past the prototype stage.

This puts it into some perspective. Not quite as big as the planes, but certainly comparable in size.

And here is another perspective:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-1...pre-flight.jpg
Mi26 Pre-flight checks

I rather like the V7...:E

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...VVS_museum.jpg

That looks like you have found the droppings of the Mi-26. Perhaps a Mi-26 roosts there? :8

Inside :cool:

http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/w...cture150sm.jpg

And that's only the attic, stairs in the center to the main room!

What engines do these machine use?
 

Additionally how much bigger than a Chinook are they? Just curious about comparisons, if there are any!

No more,
I parked a CH47 at Templehof next to a Mi-26 a few years back. After a friendly bit of banter with crew and a look inside I walked in to that lovely curved hangar. I turned around and looked and, to me, my CH47 looked like a Gazelle parked next to a Chinook....it's that big. WRT engines, the Mi-26 donks are about 11000(!) SHP each, the T55-714 on the CH47 are good for about 4100hp max cont and nearly 5000hp in Emerg Pwr.

Remember, a CH47 and Sea King are nearly the same size - a Merlin fuselage is bigger. The cost of those inefficient tail rotors....:}