Visit to Mil and Kamov 1992 - photo of Mil Fenestron

[Dr Ron]

Mil helicopters - Damaged Fenestron on the scrap heap at Tomolino 1992. I visited Mil & Kamov design bureaux and their test centres in 1992 - and the Mil 26 factory at Rostov-on-Don. Snapshot attached taken from the bus when entering the Mil test site. Article about visit in my memoir Two Up, written with my twin brother. Any interest?

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Sounds interesting to me...

 

[kaiserbill]

Please, let's hear it... a Mil-26 with fenestron?

 

[Sineva]

This sort of thing is always interesting,especially because of the time period involved,ie late ussr/early post ussr period

 

[persil]

Seems that you have found remains of that one:

Ми-24 с фенестроном [фото] (1/2) [Форумы Balancer.Ru]

... В 1975 г. на одном из опытных Ми-24 был опробован экспериментальный рулевой винт типа фенестрон. Он не получил практического применения, так как испытания показали, что фенестрон оказывается… (стр. 1 из 2)

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[Dr Ron]

Looks like it ...

 

[Dr Ron]

Another shot from the same visit. Mil 6 with a modified nose.

 

[Dr Ron]

Idyllic scene at Rostov-on-Don

 

[Dr Ron]

Meeting with Sergey Mikheyev, General Designer of Kamov Design Bureau, 16 June 1992. Friendly discussion, including looking at some project models.
I generated a 24 page report with 30-odd pages of annexes. Visits to Mil, Kamov (offices and test centres), TsAGI at Zhukovsky for a briefing, the State Supervisory Commission for Flight Safety, Rostov Helicopter Manufacturing Enterprise, PZL Swidnik and Warsaw University of Technology. Visit ran from 12th - 26th June 1992.