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Russian Mi-38 helicopter climbs to 8,500 meters during flight test 0410111.
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Mi-38 helicopter climbs to 8,500 meters during flight test. |
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Mil Mi-38
medium transport and passenger helicopter climbed 8,500 meters high in
test flights, Moscow Mil Helicopter Plant test pilot, Hero of Russia Alexander
Klimov told Interfax-AVN. |
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"We
made the flight from the Chkalovsky airfield. Temperatures varied from
15 degrees Celsius on the ground to minus 37 degrees up there,""
said Klimov, who was the test flight co-pilot. The helicopter is capable of going nine kilometers up with a lesser takeoff weight, he said. ""If the helicopter is made lighter, Mi-38 can certainly reach the altitude of nine kilometers," he said. The test flight did not aim to break any altitude records. ""Records were immaterial; we needed to test the helicopter,"" he said. The second experimental model of Mi-38 with Pratt & Whitney Canada engines performed the flight. Russian-made TV7-117V engines, which will also be installed in serial Mi-28, are more powerful, which will make high altitude flights easy, he said. "The world has no helicopters with such splendid altitude characteristics as Mi-38,"" Klimov said. |
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