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MAKS 2003. MI-26 "Halo" (Mil, Russia) - aircraft general information.
Russian Design Bureaus do not only hold the record of having developed the largest airliner in serial production (the Antonov An-124); Mil similarily holds the record of having developed the largest helicopter that ever made it to serial production. Its Mi-26 Halo equals the size of an airliner. Its 56’000 kg of maximum take off weight (mtow) correspond roughly to the mtow of a Yakovlev Yak-42 airliner - or a Boeing 737-200 Adv., if you prefer to think in Western terms. Both of them are airliners seeting between 108 and 120 passengers.
Capable of lifting a payload of 20’000 kg or 70 fully equipped troups, the Mi-26 is nothing else but unbeatable. Not surprinsingly, the range of aplications of the type stretches far beyond the role of a heavy duty military transport. The Mi-26’s role also extends to humanitarian missions, to supplying remote villages and oil camps in Siberia, to fighting fires in otherwise unaccessible high rising buildings, to carry engineering products such as pipeline tubes, support beams of highway bridges etc.
Role: Heavy duty helicopter
Engines: 2 Lotarev D-136 turbines, 11,240hp each
Main rotor diameter, m: 32.0
Lenght, m: 40.03
Maximum take-off mass, kg: 56,000
Empty mass, kg: 28,200
Max speed, km/h: 295
Cruise speed, km/h: 255
Range, km: 670
Ceiling, m: 4,600
Crew, prs: 4
Passengers: 70
Payload Capacity, kg: 20,000
