Some drone footage. Looks well worth a visit (when it’s warmer)
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1a6_1424427665
Moggy
By: Flanker_man - 24th February 2015 at 08:39
Nice bit of camber on the Mi-26 rotors – great photos and collection.
They’re like that ‘cos its from a diorama I did of a Mi-26 lifting a downed USAF MH-47E in Afghanistan…… so they are under strain…
I was trying to depict this scene…….
Ken
By: Jur - 24th February 2015 at 08:17
Nice pictures of the very impressive Mil V-12. As an air traffic controller I handled this machine when it came in to land at Schiphol Airport Amsterdam in 1971 on its way to the Paris Airshow Le Bourget.
By: Oxcart - 24th February 2015 at 00:21
My god, somebody really thought outside the box on that one!
By: FLY.BUY - 23rd February 2015 at 21:36
Interesting design looks like something out of Thunderbirds. I looked at pictures of the interior on airliners.net . The lower front deck is the cockpit and the upper front deck is the navigators station.
By: Seafuryfan - 23rd February 2015 at 20:31
Nice bit of camber on the Mi-26 rotors – great photos and collection.
By: ian_ - 23rd February 2015 at 19:52
Lovely models and pics, thanks for posting! The Hare is tiny!
By: Gerard - 23rd February 2015 at 19:21
that’s a nice collection you got. respect.
By: Flanker_man - 23rd February 2015 at 18:59
It was designed to disperse ICBM payloads – brought in by the An-22 to forward airfields – normal payload 20 tonnes, max payload 40 tonnes.
It had the rotors and drive train from TWO Mi-6 helicopters
Here’s my 1/72 scale model of it…. next to a Mi-2….
Next to an Il-76……
Next to its successor, the Mi-26 – plus a Mi-2 and Mi-1….
Ken
By: Flanker_man - 23rd February 2015 at 18:51
It is well worth a visit – I’ve been a dozen times now.
The V-12 had been given a fresh coat of paint when I photographed it in 2002…..
It was looking good in 2005……
It looked a bit weary in 2011…..
It had a makeover in 2012…. it totally the wrong colours !!!!
It is great that the exhibits are being cared for – by volunteers on a shoestring budget – but they are only paying lip service to historical accuracy, which is a shame.
BTW, the V-12 at Monino is the second prototype – the first one is at Mils home base at Panki on the other side of Moscow.
Ken
PS – If you want to see more of Monini, here are a few links to my photos over the years…
2009 (scroll down)
2013 (scroll down)
By: Arabella-Cox - 23rd February 2015 at 18:38
Nice, the worlds largest helicopter bigger than a C130 I read somewhere.
Curlyboy
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