Yakovlev Yak-60
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Yakovlev Yak-60 is the possible designation for an experimental Yakovlev tandem-rotor heavy-lift helicopter design of the late 1960. This design never progressed beyond the model stage.
rotors in tandem, each driven by a pair of 6,500shp D-25VF engines, potentially giving it four times the payload capacity of the Boeing Vertol Chinook. The cockpit would have been similar to that of the Yak-24. Compared to the radical Mi-12, the Yak-60 design was far more conventional, though ultimately two Mi-12s were produced.
The designation Yak-60 has been suggested based on an extant study model which has the number "60" painted prominently on its side.
Development
This helicopter was designed in the late 1960s, and may have been a competing design to the Mi-12 heavy lift helicopter. It featured two Mi-6Mil Mi-6
|-Facts:*Test pilot N.B. Leshin has set the world record of speed. This event was awarded by the American Helicopter Society.*Small numbers are still in service, most in Siberia plus a small number with the People's Republic of China...
rotors in tandem, each driven by a pair of 6,500shp D-25VF engines, potentially giving it four times the payload capacity of the Boeing Vertol Chinook. The cockpit would have been similar to that of the Yak-24. Compared to the radical Mi-12, the Yak-60 design was far more conventional, though ultimately two Mi-12s were produced.
The designation Yak-60 has been suggested based on an extant study model which has the number "60" painted prominently on its side.