Mil V-7
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Role | Experimental tip-drive helicopter |
Manufacturer | Mil |
First flight | 1959 |
Number built | 4[1] |
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The Mil V-7 was an unusual experimental four-seat helicopter with AI-7 ramjets at the tips of the two rotor blades.[2] It had an egg-shaped fuselage, skid undercarriage, and a two-bladed tail rotor on a short tubular tail boom. Four aircraft were built in the late 1950s, but only one is known to have flown, with only the pilot aboard.[3]
Specifications
Data from The Osprey Encyclopaedia of Russian Aircraft 1875–1995[3]
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Capacity: 3 passengers
- Empty weight: 730 kg (1,609 lb)
- Gross weight: 835 kg (1,841 lb)
- Powerplant: 2 × Ivchenko AI-7 ramjets, 0.549 kN (123.5 lbf) thrust each
- Main rotor diameter: 11.6 m (38 ft 1 in)
Performance
References
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