Cold start of the Vedeneyev M14V26 nine-cylinder, four-stroke, air-cooled, petrol-powered radial engine. This power plant is a modified version of the M14P engine, made with a cooling fan for helicopters due to the relatively low air speed. (Ka-26, Mi-34)

Romeo-November (previously registrated as 506 in the fleet of the Hungarian People's Army), started her career in 1970, and flew as courier helicopter until 1984. After that year Hungarian Air Service used her for agricultural tasks. In 1990, a private company bought her and started to operate her around Tolna county, based in Őcsény airfield.

In 2011 she got a special paint scheme, a shark mouth under the front windshield.
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After 45 years of active work, we farewelled her at 2015. She attended a formation flight with another Ka-26, HA-HSF.

Now she is in a helicopter museum in Jingdezhen, in the northeastern Jiangxi province of China. ([ Ссылка ])

Kamov Ka-26 was invented by N.I. Kamov in the middle of the 1960s, basically for agricultural tasks. It has two Vedeneyev M14-V-26 radial engines with 9 cylinders and 325 hp each. The engine was produced with an iron cooler fan due to the relatively low airspeed of the helicopter, which gives a really unique siren sound as it works.

Recorded at 2010 with a SONY DCR-DVD105E.

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