Yakovlev Yak-60

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Yak-60

Yakovlev Yak-60 (known as Yak-32 in some sources) [1] is the possible designation for an experimental Yakovlev tandem-rotor heavy-lift helicopter design of the late 1960s. This design never progressed beyond the model stage. [2]

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Development

This helicopter was designed in the late 1960s, and may have been a competing design to the Mil Mi-12 heavy lift helicopter. It featured two Mil Mi-6 rotors in tandem, each driven by a pair of 6,500 hp (4,800 kW) Soloviev D-25VF engines, potentially giving it four times the payload capacity of the Boeing CH-47 Chinook. The cockpit would have been similar to that of the Yakovlev Yak-24. Compared to the radical Mi-12, the Yak-60 design was far more conventional, though two Mi-12s were produced and no Yak-60s. [2]

It has been suggested that the designation Yak-60 was based on an extant study model which had the number "60" painted prominently on its side. [2]

Specifications (Yak-60 estimated)

Data from [2]

General characteristics

Performance

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References

  1. Gordon, Yefim; Dmitry; Sergey Komissarov (2005). OKB Yakovlev. Hinkley: Midland Publishing. ISBN   1-85780-203-9.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Gordon, Yefim; Gunston, Bill (1997). Yakovlev aircraft since 1924 (1. publ. ed.). London [u.a.]: Putnam [u.a.] ISBN   978-0851778723.