Russian Masterpiece Mil Mi-26 Picks Up A NATO CH-47 Chinook || Largest And Most Powerful Helicopter HD

OP Info invites you to watch …. Russian Masterpiece Mil Mi-26 Picks Up A NATO CH-47 Chinook. It is the #largest and #most #powerful #helicopter to have gone into #series #production. #Mi26 #Russia #Миль #Halo #largestHelicopter, #MI26, #Russia Mil Mi-26 is a Soviet/Russian heavy transport helicopter. Its product code is izdeliye 90. Operated by both military and civilian operators, it is the largest and most powerful helicopter to have gone into series production. General characteristics • Crew: Five– 2 pilots, 1 navigator, 1 flight engineer, 1 flight technician • Capacity: o 90 troops or 60 stretchers o 20,000 kg cargo 44,090 lb • Length: 40.025 m 131 ft 3¾ in rotors turning • Rotor diameter: 32.00 m 105 ft 0 in • Height: 8.145 m 26 ft 8¾ in • Disc area: 804.25 m2 8,656.8 ft² • 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 Performance • Maximum speed: 295 km/h 159 kt, 183 mph • Cruise speed: 255 km/h 137 kt, 158 mph • Range: 1,920 km with auxiliary tanks • Service ceiling: 4,600 m 15,100 ft SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-26 The Mil Mi-26 (Russian: Миль Ми-26, NATO reporting name: Halo) is a Soviet/Russian heavy transport helicopter. Its product code is izdeliye 90. Operated by both military and civilian operators, it is the largest and most powerful helicopter to have gone into series production. It is the second largest and heaviest helicopter ever constructed, after the experimental Mil V-12. The Mi-26 was the first factory-equipped helicopter with a single, eight-blade main lift rotor. It is capable of flight in the event of power loss by one engine (depending on aircraft mission weight) because of an engine load sharing system. In October 1999, an Mi-26 was used to transport a 25-ton block of frozen soil encasing a preserved, 23,000-year-old Woolly Mammoth from the Siberian tundra to a lab in Khatanga, Taymyr. Due to the weight of the load, the Mi-26 had to be returned to the factory afterward to check for airframe and rotor warping caused by the potential of structural over-stressing. As of 2019, the Mi-26 still holds the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale world record for the greatest mass lifted by a helicopter to 2,000 metres – 56,768.8 kilograms on a flight in 1982. "Rostvertol", the Russian helicopter manufacturer, was contracted to refurbish and upgrade the entire fleet of Mi-26s serving in the Russian Air Force, estimated to be around 20 helicopters. The upgraded aircraft is comparable to a new variant, the Mi-26T. Contract completion was planned for 2015. The contract also covered the production of 22 new Mi-26T helicopters. Under the 2010 contract, 17 new-production helicopters were delivered by 2014. In all, Rostvertol delivered fourteen Mi-26s to domestic and foreign customers in the period 2012‑14 and six helicopters in 2015. Deliveries to the Russian Air Force were