Helicopters have always been a dream in human flight. They can land anywhere, take off from anywhere, hover, lift, rescue, and do so much more.
In the civilian sphere, helicopter are used both as leisure vehicles as well as for ferrying people from one place to another. A lot of the rich and famous do not like being be stuck in traffic with all of us plebes, so they just walk out to their garage, fire up their helicopter, and fly off to work, landing at the office in a matter of minutes. Meanwhile, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, a city with 12 million people in the greater metropolitan area, traffic is sometimes so bad that it can take an hour and a half just to travel 18 miles! So, what a lot of the more wealthy members of Sao Paulo society have started doing is taking helicopters to and from work, and even from business meeting to business meeting.
These days, it is not uncommon in that city to look up into the sky and see dozens of helicopters ferrying bankers and lawyers from place to place and building to building. It would certainly make our commutes a whole lot easier! Of course, the biggest helicopters in use today are being flown by the military. Choppers are able to drop off and extract soldiers from landing zones with ease (especially since, unlike airplanes, they do not require a super long runway in order to become airborne), they can hover above the ground and do water or land based rescues, and, of course, they can also be used as transport vehicles.
The United States has one of the best transport helicopters in the world – the massive Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion. The Sea Stallion is a beast of an aircraft, weighing in at over 80,000 pounds! That’s impressive enough, but what if we were to tell you that there is another helicopter that is even bigger than the biggest helicopter the United States has? A helicopter so large that can carry not only OTHER HELICOPTERS but even transport airplanes? We would like to introduce you all to the biggest mass produced helicopter in the world – the Russian made and operated Mil Mi-26. The helicopter’s mission? To fly literally anything to any part of the world and drop it with pin point accuracy. For instance…
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When people think of giant helicopters, it is not uncommon to imagine a Chinook or Blackhawk helicopter. But it turns out that the largest mass produced helicopter in the world is actually a Russian invention. The helicopter is called the Mil Mi-26, and it is a super powerful workhorse. As big as an airplane, it’s a wonder that this bird is even able to get off the ground. It’s size gives it the ability to go on some of the stranger missions we have ever heard of.
