Yakovlev Yak-60

what is it?

Yakovlev Yak-60 (known as Yak-32 in some sources) 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.

🔎How to recognise it: 4 turboshaft engines · 35 m main rotor

base stats

• size 100 tmax take-off weight

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🚗Rotor of 35 m: about 8 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🐘Fully loaded it can weigh as much as 17 African elephants (~6 t each).

turboshaft: A turbine that turns a shaft, usually a helicopter rotor.

spec sheet

first flight

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number built

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role

helicopter

engines

4× Soloviev D-25VF

length

46 m

rotor diameter

35 m

max take-off weight

100 t

top speed

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range

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Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.