That is the wonderful thing about coaxial helicopters: No wasted power on a tail rotor. All power is used to produce lift. The Ka-26 also comes with the capability of a removable box between the main landing gear. Today, the KA-50/KA-52 carries on that tradition of coaxial rotor systems.
Да помню тоже в детстве эти вертолеты жили мы тогда в 7 км от их аэродрома это было в Узбекистане. Еще и гайцы на них летали в СССР помню на них прям было написано красными буквами ГАИ. Еще пеленгаторы летали эти вертолеты с антенами пеленговали радиохулиганов а и даже поля обрабатывали ими навешивались 2 бочки и в бока уходили штанги с форсунками для разбрызгивания ядов
Потому что поршневой двигатель, который могли обслуживать механики прямо на месте, в поле, как обычный трактор, и обычным набором инструментов. Птиц спокойно зимовал под открытым небом. А сейчас это ГТД, дорогущий, и обслуживать нужно на заводе, по этому их и нет в массе.
The engineers who invented this machine were geniuses. Twin counter-rotating rotors, twin engines, cargo space, compact design... wow! You could hook a camping car under it and go on holidays 😆
Thank u pilot for actually flying a helicopter with confidence, speed, showing its capabilities and maneuverability instead of just hovering like 99% of clips I see on youtube.....
@@Tolianchig нуу... слишком убого. Разве не очевидно, что я у вас спросил (там знак вопроса), как специалиста? :D Не надо выглядеть глупее, чем вы есть. Это совет, не вопрос.
I don't think I've ever seen a video with better radial engine sounds. Very clear and distinct compared to most airplane vids with the prop making noise and covering the engine sound up. And the ones of them running on test stands aren't running under load, so the sound is different. It sounds great. I like it! And I never thought how odd it is that the West's only coaxial helicopters are "Kamans", while Russia's only coaxial helicopters are "Kamovs". Kaman and Kamov. Interesting.
@@Ed-sd9qb , многофункциональный. Есть пристёгиваемая кабина, делающая его пассажирским. Г/п=900кг. Можно навешивать различное навесное оборудование для опыления полей. То есть для сельского хозяйства незаменимый. В принципе для этого и создавался. Единственный советский и российский верт, получивший лётный сертификат в США!!!
What a beautiful aircraft. It looks like it's a dream to fly too. Those pitch change rods sure do look dinky though I hope they are magna fluxed and x-rayed every 100 hours. I was a USCG aircrewman 1981 - 1985 and right before being assigned to my first duty station at ATC Mobile we lost a helo (H-52) and all crew due to pitch change rod failure. The rods on that aircraft were hollow and had been deteriorating from the inside out and had gone undetected due to an insufficient inspection program ... visual-only inspections had been the norm. A fleet-wide grounding ensued until all the rods could be replaced. The crewman's necks were instantly broken in flight as soon as the first main rotor separated from the head which of course caused an extremely violent shift in the momentum of the aircraft. The co-pilot was in the midst of a routine radio contact when it happened. I saw all the investigation photos it was an extremely catastrophic failure.
Was probably a "new" restoration. You could see how the pilot was testing the controls before fully committing to flight. I see lots of, frankly rude, comments about this aircraft. Who are we to judge? The Russians built this to do a specific job. (Light to medium cargo transport by the looks of it). And I bet it filled its niche well, or someone probably wouldn't have put the time, and rubles, into restoring it. Remember that ALL aviation is beautiful, even the foreign and sometimes "ugly" ones.
At first glance, the Ka-26 is something of an ugly design. But once those amazing radial engines start to roar and it leaves the ground you see that it is in fact graceful and beautiful. It's a truly wonderful machine!
you got to love it , when it takes off it really goes ! from an ugly -bug to an amazing flying creature . You can see how it all works , nothing so crude as a tail rotor .............
@@user-hy4ot1xs2x This is quite true and Russia has produced many . TU95 . An-22 , Suchoi and Migs . I am an aeromodeller and have followed aircraft design since mid 1960's . Greetings from Wales
Many people ask about small device swinging below engine in 3:41, is is part of advanced meteorological system, explained below. If device is wet that means its raining. If its not visible that means there is fog. If device leans on string in one direction, that means conditions are windy. If it jumps up and down, you are experiencing an earthquake. If device is white on top, that indicates snow, possible winter. If device is missing, you have erroneously landed in Albania.
When I saw those things flying out in the open, it always looked to me as if they had turbines. Now it's the first time I see that it in fact has radial piston engines. Saw them crop dusting in Hungary in the 1980s...
These one was created as modular concept. It could be ambulance, rescue, cargo, passenger, whatever you want. All you need to do is changing module of helicopter. Great machine!
@@cdbtheclawBeen equipped with two piston engines, it was as simple as Kalshnikov is. This is the only Soviet helicopter that recieved FAA certification.
Une petite merveille aussi rustique que le Kamov Ka-26 c' est normal quand ça fume comme un sapeur pompier c' est le démarrage à froid et aussi une accumulation d' huile dans les partis inférieurs du moteur radial! en plus j' adore cet hélicoptère! Merci pour le partage...
Rotors 'll do that to ya ! I had no idea you could run one without rotors - or why you'd want to ? Impressive machine , dual rotors =good design . You can just motor it along , go off road , park , cut the grass -no need to take off at all.......... Wales UK
When I was a child such kind of helicopters used to air spray the wine grape plantation near to our house. How much I loved that quick turns: up, turn, then diving...
La technologie version Kamov! Le beacon doit être grippé et ne tourne pas, mais il se débloque à l’atterrissage (5:16) ... Au final, quelques coups de marteau, quelques chocs, et ça fonctionne plutôt bien :-) Belle machine, bon pilote. J'adore !
@@KarsonNow in my opinion the sound was also borrowed - thank you for the comments - now I'm sure what the designers of the racing speedster from Star Wars were inspired by!
oh i see the problem i think. if a engine is coupled directly to the rotor the blades would stall instantly if the engine ceased and the aircraft would fall out of the sky witout any control?
@@Karlan_: Yes. They are radial engines. The cylinders form a circle where that bulge is. So, there are vertical top cylinders, ones at an angle, horizontal ones and at least one that's inverted.
@DayzMennis the engine doesn't need a rebuild. They are radial piston engines. When they're shut down, some oil collects in the lower cylinders, and that's what you see smoking when they are started.
On this helicopter they choose to use piston engines for fuel consumption reasons. AT that time this helicopter was moving cargo etcetera with an incredible cost/work efficiency, also thanks to the modular bay
This is the small version of the Sikorsky-Erickson Air Crane. Versatile like nothing else. If we had a couple of KA-26 in all communities, you could do much more about fire and floods or civil emergency transports. The KA-26 was used in Eastern Germany for many years, it has a good history for being reliable and versatile. We don´t have this anymore, modern helicopters are far too complicated.
He is “flying in “ after maintenance, sorry I don’t know the exact terminus for this kind of operation, but basically the test pilot have to fly the chopper on its limits
It's great machine, especially with many changeable modules that you can fast connect under the engines. Really sad, that was a very small production run.
I am a pilot I know about aircraft. compared to airplanes helicopters must have high amounts of maintenance by law. So don't tell me a helicopter is low maintenance.
My respect for it grew during the video...but at the start i don't think i would have sent a stray dog up in it. Skilled pilot, i bet he's got a few hours on type. 80 degree bank angle had me sweating.
This is cool! Obviously it's a restoration in progress, by the way the pilot looks like he's feeling out the controls. I liked the first video with all the smoke and backfiring.
6 лет назад
Not really a restoration, more like a spring test flight before the season. We still have several of these helicopters in active use here in Hungary.
"Hey boss, we have a pile of old tractor parts behind the shed - why don't we build some helicopters out of it?" "Good idea, Yevgeni - by the way call Dimitri, he has some surplus pushcart wheels; maybe we can use them for the landing gear"
BEST co-axial rotored Russian _'NATO shopping cart'_ ever made! This bird will outperform ANY heli today in agility and airworthiness. Best avionic transmissions ever designed in these old Ka26 models. The updated twin turbo-shafted Ka226 was an incredibly agile flying machine and preceded the now turbine powered Ka32K, a mini 'flying crane'....the workhorse!
I love the hammer at 00:58. I love Russian engineering, that you're ok to do this on a helicopter. I was in US Army aviation for several years. Don't think I ever saw anyone use a hammer on a helo, at least on the rotor system anyway.
The Vedeneyev M14P is a Russian nine-cylinder, four-stroke, air-cooled, petrol-powered radial engine. Producing 360 hp, its design dates from the 1940s.
Ошибаетесь мой друг.Потребляет этот вертолет обычный автомобильный бензин по Российской классификации АИ-95 с повышенным октановым числом.Так что заправить эту стрекозу можно на любой автомобильной заправке.❤
