Russian Air Force Museum at Monino

Jur,

Thanks for sharing those with us!

Richard.

Richard,

You’re welcome, but thank you very much for that beautiful presentation of your visit to Monino.

Well worth going. I went two years ago. Amazing aircraft. Long live Monino!

A few old photo’s, which I took of Mil helicopters in 1966 at Schiphol and 1967 at the Paris Show. They include the MI-10 and MI-6 at Schiphol and the Mil-10K and Mil-6 together at the Paris Airshow.

Jur,

Thanks for sharing those with us!

Richard.

Mil Helicopters

A few old photo’s, which I took of Mil helicopters in 1966 at Schiphol and 1967 at the Paris Show. They include the MI-10 and MI-6 at Schiphol and the Mil-10K and Mil-6 together at the Paris Airshow.

You may have noticed that the MI-6 Hook at Schiphol Airport is the same one as the MI-6 at the Paris 1967 photo. This aircraft, reg. CCCP-06174, was demonstrated in Paris in a fire fighting role. Later that year CCCP-06174 crashed in the south of France while on a fire fighting mission.

Mil MI-12

At the top of the list of things I wanted to see was this Mil Mi-12 helicopter, which has the NATO code name “Homer”. The Mi-12 is the largest helicopter which has ever flown. Two or three prototypes were built, it never went into production but it did quite a bit of flying, including a trip across Europe to the Paris Air Show. Depending on which source you believe, this was either in 1965, 1971, 1981 or 1985; as far as I can tell 1971 is the correct date.

It was indeed in 1971 that the Mil MI-12 visited the Paris Airshow. As an air traffic controller at Schiphol Airport Amsterdam, I handled this aircraft myself on a stop to Paris. Seeing this giant fly was quite a sight.

Very nice, i have to go there one day. Do you have any photos of the two Tu-16 Badgers there? Beautiful, sleek looking aircraft

Hi Richard,

Excellent webpages about Monino – always glad to see someone else enjoying the place !!!!

I have been there every year since 1993 – and the place just gets better & better.

As you say, they now have a small chain-link fence around the grass areaa – but the staff don’t mind you going over the fence to take photos – although I do wonder how long that will last.

I was also there in August – http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/visits2-pages/mos2005_day06.html

Can I make a couple of observations regarding your text/descriptions ??

The large twin-rotor helicopter at the entrance is Mil V-12 – NOT Mi-12. It never entered service, so was never given the military designation Mi-12 – it was just the internal Mil designation of V (for Vertolyet (Helicopter)) -12.

The helicopter behind the Yak-24 is a Piasecki H-21 – it was a gift to the Soviets by Richard Nixon – it was not sold to them. The Soviets did not know what to do with it – so they stuck it in the museum out of the way !

Finally, the ‘big brother’ of the Antonov An-124 is the six-jet An-225 ‘Mriya’ (NATO Condor) – e.g. 225 NOT 224.

I hope you don’t mind the above – I am trying to help, not criticise.

An excellent site – congratulations.

Ken

PS – Had they had the fire at Monino when you went ??

Ken,

Thanks for the information, I’m always happy to receive corrections.

Actually I’d already enjoyed reading your website’s account of Monino, I must have turned it up on a Google search. I’d seen your comment there about Nixon giving the H-21 to the Russians, but I wasn’t able to verify it – do you happen to know of a reputable website that explains the situation? Some other place said that it had been sold during the 1950s, before Boeing bought Vertol, which is why it just says “Vertol” on the side rather than “Boeing Vertol”; so I thought that a 1950s date precluded Nixon presenting it.

Richard.

Hi Richard,

Excellent webpages about Monino – always glad to see someone else enjoying the place !!!!

I have been there every year since 1993 – and the place just gets better & better.

As you say, they now have a small chain-link fence around the grass areaa – but the staff don’t mind you going over the fence to take photos – although I do wonder how long that will last.

I was also there in August – http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/visits2-pages/mos2005_day06.html

Can I make a couple of observations regarding your text/descriptions ??

The large twin-rotor helicopter at the entrance is Mil V-12 – NOT Mi-12. It never entered service, so was never given the military designation Mi-12 – it was just the internal Mil designation of V (for Vertolyet (Helicopter)) -12.

The helicopter behind the Yak-24 is a Piasecki H-21 – it was a gift to the Soviets by Richard Nixon – it was not sold to them. The Soviets did not know what to do with it – so they stuck it in the museum out of the way !

Finally, the ‘big brother’ of the Antonov An-124 is the six-jet An-225 ‘Mriya’ (NATO Condor) – e.g. 225 NOT 224.

I hope you don’t mind the above – I am trying to help, not criticise.

An excellent site – congratulations.

Ken

PS – Had they had the fire at Monino when you went ??

What a cracking presentation !
Great pics with very informative text.