

The Mi-26 is the first helicopter with an eight-blade main rotor, that is mounted higher than the fuselage midsection on a hump. 2 turboshaft engines are mounted on top of the cabin with spherical air intakes above and behind the cockpit and exhaust ports at the edges of the engines. The long, bus-like body with fixed tricycle landing gear tapers to the nose and rear, with an upswept rear section and rounded nose and stepped-up cockpit. The tail is swept-back with a slightly tapered fin with massive rotor on right side. The flats are forward-tapered and low-mounted on forefront of the fin.
The Mi-26 is propelled by 2 turbomotors Lotarev D-136 of 11.400 CV every one. Its titanium and principal glass fibre rotor has eight pale whereas the rotor of tail has of them 5 created glass fibre. it's a system of de-icing of pale and is the only helicopter in production that has a principal rotor comprising 8 pale. The Mi-26 contains a fixed three-wheeled landing gear whose wheels are twinned.