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To: Airwinger

That (sigh) would still be the Russian (ex-Soviet) Mi-26:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-26

General characteristics
-Crew: Five: 2 pilots, 1 navigator, 1 flight engineer, 1 flight technician
-Capacity:
-90 troops or 60 stretchers
-20,000 kg cargo (44,090 lb)
-Length: 40.025 m (131 ft 3 in) (rotors turning)
-Rotor diameter: 32.00 m (105 ft 0 in)
-Height: 8.145 m (26 ft 8 in)
-Disc area: 804.25 m2 (8,656.8 sqft)
-Empty weight: 28,200 kg (62,170 lb)
-Loaded weight: 49,600 kg (109,350 lb)
-Max. takeoff weight: 56,000 kg (123,450 lb)
-Powerplant: 2 × Lotarev D-136 turboshafts, 8,500 kW (11,399 shp) each
-Main rotor RPM: 132

Performance
-Maximum speed: 295 km/h (159 kt, 183 mph)
-Cruise speed: 255 km/h (137 kt, 158 mph)
-Range: 1,920 km (1,036 nmi, 1,190 mi) (with auxiliary tanks)
-Service ceiling: 4,600 m (15,100 ft)

First flew in 1977!! 316 built and still in production.

Photographs at link. Interior looks like the inside of a C-130.

As of 2013, the Mi-26 still holds the FAI record of greatest mass lifted to 2,000 metres - it lifted 56,768.8 kg in 1982 (56,768.8kg = 124,891.36lbs)

Reported operational history in the Wikipedia article includes high altitude external lift recoveries of down US Army Chinooks from the mountains of Afghanistan. (By civilian operated aircraft no less. That had to be embarrassing.)


27 posted on 10/28/2015 7:08:26 PM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow)
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To: Captain Rhino

yeah, I know, but I was speaking to the ongoing battle between the CH-47 Chinook and The Ch-53


28 posted on 10/28/2015 11:13:48 PM PDT by Airwinger ( A Militia Of One (Semper Fi))
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