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[porsche4life]

It looks russian... What makes you think it will start?

[M.D. Holloway]

just another day in the salt mine...

[ncseahawk]

MI-26. At least two of running daily in Afghanistan.

Biggest helicopter you will ever see. Looks like a C130 with rotors.

[porsche930dude]

[Tervuren]

Originally Posted by widebody911

How does that not chop it's ass off on startup?

It looks to me like it has its rotors folded and tied inline to take up less space on the ground. Its an eight rotored 'copter, and I ain't seeing the shadows for all eight...

[Embraer]

[Nostril Cheese]

Originally Posted by widebody911

How does that not chop it's ass off on startup?

centrifugal force pulls the blades up

[Heel n Toe]

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by widebody911

How does that not chop it's ass off on startup?

i would think because they are pulled down under slight tension for storage, so the wind can't make em flap abount, and when released swing up higher and clear the tail.

[URY914]

[kach22i]

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[GH85Carrera]

[GH85Carrera]

[kach22i]

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[GH85Carrera]

[svandamme]

[Willem Fick]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Yep, MI 26 Halo. The Soviets know how to make things really big.

In a previous life worked at a place where we kitted these out with night vision kit for operational duty somewhere off the maps in the north of Africa. At the same point in time we also serviced stabilized camera equipment on a Bell Jet Ranger contracted to Discovery Channel, which was often parked in close proximity to where the Halos were kept. To understand how big the Halo is, you really have to see it next to a Bell - it made it look like a scale model!

They are powerful too. At one time we were moving some of our workshop equipment around, and had a couple of heavy duty full height tool cabinets standing outside the building when a Halo came in to land. Even well outside the exclusion zone surrounding the landing pad the downwash was enough to toss these cabinets around as if they were made from paper.

[svandamme]

even a Chinook is just "cargo" to those Halo's

[svandamme]

actually, the first one parked, is not a Mi26, it's a Mi6

[Willem Fick]

You are right indeed!

Never saw a 6, though did on occasion have an 8 and a Hind come in for some work too. Us regular folk were not allowed anywhere close to the Hind, though the 8 was surprisingly also kitted out with quite an array of attachment points for ordinance.

Without fail I was however amazed at how big these Soviet machies where.