Posted on 10/04/2007 8:44:07 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
That’s the second biggest helicopter I’ve ever seen.
Yeah, the Russians build some huge helicopters. On the other hand, their big helicopters fall out of the sky with disturbing regularity.
That’s a bigass target.
That’s a huge mutha!
Purina Stinger Chow
Is that a yellow lab in the pic? Or an anatolian shepherd? :)
Bigger than I’d have imagined any helicopter, unless the photog assembled midgets.
Gotta get me one of them...........nope, that Ruskie crap falls like a rock way too frequently. Give one to Harry Reid, Durbin, Pelosi, Kerry, and that whole bunch, sit back, cross your fingers..........................
The Russians went for bigger; we went for small, tighter. We won ….
On August 19, 2002, a Chechen terrorist fired an Igla (SA-18) SAM at an MI-26 as it took off from the Russian base at Khankala. The helicopter crashlanded in the middle of a minefield and caught on fire, killing 127 of the 152 people onboard.
Looks like a lab....Look it that side saddle sitting.
Have been told that roooshian aircraft have a few distinguishing differences from western aircraft. Like about "10 feet" between rivets....
How you doing, champ? haven't seen you in an age..hope all is well..
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, INDIA
February 22
The Mi-17 helicopter, which force-landed in a river-bed near Shahbad a few days ago after it developed a technical snag, was airlifted by a Mi-26 helicopter to the Chandigarh Air Force Station today.
The damaged Mi-17 was ferried under-slung by a Mi-26 heavy lift chopper from Air Force’s 12 Wing here and was later handed over to No.3 Base Repair Depot (BRD), which is responsible for repair and maintenance of Mi-series helicopters in the Indian Air Force’s inventory.
The Mi-17 had force-landed near Damli village adjoining Shahbad on February 10 during a routine sortie from Halwara to Sarsawa with 24 IAF personnel aboard. The IAF had tried to airlift the helicopter yesterday but aborted the efforts after the lock on one of the cables had snapped. Airlift to 3 BRD indicates that the helicopter had suffered a serious problem.
Air Officer Commanding, 12 Wing, Air Cmde T.K. Venugopal, said that a team from the Mi-26 Helicopter Unit, led by its Commanding Officer, Wg Cdr Sushil Ghera, had flown to the Mi-17’s location in another Mi-17 today morning to prepare the damaged aircraft for airlifting it out. Another team comprising engineers and technicians, led by the Wing’s station Chief Engineering Officer, Gp Capt M.C. Roy, had also gone along for technical assessment.
The Mi-17’s main and tail rotor as well as a few panels were removed to facilitate airlift and also to reduce the damaged helicopters weight. The Mi-17, which eventually weighed a little over 6,000 kg, was lashed at three different points by cables, which in turn were attached to the Mi-26’s master cable extending from its under belly. The Mi-26, which is the world’s largest and heaviest helicopter, can carry a payload of 20,000 kgs.
The Mi-26 returned to Chandigarh in a Mi-17 in the afternoon and thereafter proceeded to the site in their own aircraft. Extreme caution had to be exercised to ensure that the under-slung load did not swing, which would have been disastrous. The under slung load also required the Mi-26 to fly at a reduced speed of about 110 kmph as compared to its average cruising speed of over 200 kmph.
The flight to Chandigarh took about 25 minutes and the Mi-17 was lowered on to a grassy patch on the airfield adjoining 3 BRD, from which it was towed on its own wheels to a hangar.
Dang. Dog dang.
Now that's beating the air into submission!
It went from a helicopter to a cardboard cut-out of a helicopter..........that was some technical snag.........
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