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Location: Riihimäki, Finland
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The Wonderful World of Vehiclesby Kurt Ristniemi
The Mil Mi-2
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Location: Riihimäki, Finland
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The Wonderful World of Vehiclesby Kurt Ristniemi
The Mil Mi-2
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Astonishing! A
pink helicopter on a backyard of an ordinary dwelling
house. Surrounded by a couple of fighter jet planes, guns
and vehicles. It is just like a piggy bank; a Piggy
Helicopter. Or a Dolphin Helicopter as sEs
had described it to me in advance. He had seen an article
of Mr. Pessi's yard on a newspaper, and
so we were off to see these gems. Marvelous! Yes, it is Mr. Pessi's yard again. The same yard that has given space for the Folland Gnat F.1 reconnaissance jet fighter, that was published earlier on this site. It just took a whole lot more time to find facts about the Piggy Copter. (In 1997 there wasn't so much about Mi-2 on the net yet.) The pink helicopter is a Soviet Mil Mi-2, that once belonged to Aeroflot, the soviet air line. It is a light multipurpose twin-turbine helicopter of classic design with a three-bladed main rotor and a two-bladed tail rotor. It is a transport helicopter as can be seen by its rectangular windows. Soviet military helicopters usually had smaller round windows. |
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I enter
the copter through the rear door and make my way on my
all fours through to the front cabin, only to notice that
the front door was open all the time. I struggle open the
front window with Mr. Pessi assisting from outside,
so that sEs can take the inevitable and iconic
picture of me piloting once again one of the vehicles of the Wonderful
World of Vehicles.
I wish to express my sincere thanks to the manufacturer PZL Swidnik S.A. for production info. (26.11.2001) |
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Early Mil Mi models
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The MIL Mi
Helicopters The Mil Mi Helicopters were designed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail L. Mil's design team. In 1951 they created the first helicopter to be built in quantity in the Soviet Union. Apparently that was the Mi-2. A little later came the Mi-4. The Mi-4 prototype was launched in 1952. MIL Mi-8 T and P Prototype was first flown in 1961. Mils in the Finnish Air Force The Finnish Air Force acquired three Mi-4 helicopters in 1966. They were HR-1 to HR-3. The type was in service from 1961 to 1978 in KuljLLv (Transportation Fleet). In 1973 six Mi-8
helicopters were purchased for the Finnish Air Force and
later four more.
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