The Mil V-7 was an unusual experimental four-seat helicopter with AI-7 ramjets at the tips of the two rotor blades.[1] It had an egg-shaped fuselage, skid undercarriage, and a two-bladed tail rotor on a short tubular tail boom. Four aircraft were built in the late 1950s, but only one is known to have flown, with only the pilot aboard.[2]
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Role | Experimental tip-drive helicopter Type of aircraft |
Manufacturer | Mil |
First flight | 1959 |
Data from The Osprey Encyclopaedia of Russian Aircraft 1875–1995[2]
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