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I channel-surfed my way to a teevee program on the history of Soviet helicopters the other evening. There was footage of the Mi-12; it’s tough to envision just how big it is<\/a> until you see it swallowing trucks whole. I did a YouTube search and came up with the following clip – it’s in French and interestingly enough what parts of the narration I understand match perfectly with the English version I saw. Mi-12 fun fact – there’s a shaft connecting both powertrains together. Both engines on one side could fail, but both rotors will continue to turn.<\/p>\n

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Minor spoiler alert! I’ve posted on Alan Moore<\/a> and Gerry Anderson<\/a> recently and wasn’t surprised at all to find that Moore knows his Anderson. In The Black Dossier<\/a> Mina<\/a> and Allan<\/a> arrive at a spaceport where they steal a rocket – a Pancake Extra-Large 4. They had been told that the Extra-Large models are named after how the previous models met their end (thus Shrapnel XL2). One guess as to how the Pancake meets it’s end (with a not-too-bright Perspex robot pilot at the controls).<\/p>\n

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