Mil Mi-26 uk appearance
 

Hi, does anyone have any details/info if we can expect this machine in the uk anytime soon?

Didn't one appear at Farnborough some years ago? Along with their little jobbie, the Mi-34 was it?

There have been Mi-26s at a couple of Farnborough shows.

1984:

http://www.abpic.co.uk/images/images/1289740M.jpg

1992:

http://www.abpic.co.uk/images/images/1253269M.jpg

Yeah it seems to be a while since one has been over, never seen one in the flesh & would like to just see how much of a monster it actually is.

Similar in size to a C130 would about describe it.

Possibly the first Mi 26 visit to the UK?
 

One also went to the Helicopter International show at Redhill on 20 Sep 1989.
CCCP06917 turned up, with several other machines including Hip H CCCP95043,along with a Hind E, Havoc, and Helix. Quite a day out!

What really impressed me was being able to walk inside the Halo. Imagine a C130 fuselage with a rotor to get the effect! This was in the days when the Rusians were first starting to visit UK shows, so their novelty value was quite a draw.

Remember the Mil-10 at Gatwick? The Russians sure turn out some interesting helicopters.

Had one in UN colours fly into Akrotiri when i was over there. Having spent years on herc's i can confirm it's a herc with rotorbades instead of props.
Rtaher large for a rotary but it seems to do the job

No, but I certainly wish I'd known and managed to see it!

I think the only Russian helicopter I ever saw prior to Glastnost was a Polish-built Mil-2 that ADS operated for a short while in the late 1970s.

The Mil V-12 was astonishing, I'd like to have seen that flying as well...