In the 1970s, the USSR was on a mission to dominate the world of heavy-lift helicopters, and they succeeded spectacularly with the Mi-26 Halo, a giant helicopter that would become the largest and ...

In the aftermath of the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan, China, an Mi-26 delivered heavy earth-moving equipment to remote mountain gorges to prevent flooding and mudslides. In 1999, a Halo helicopter ...