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    Mikhail Leontyevich Mil (Russian: Михаил Леонтьевич Миль; 22 November 1909 – 31 January 1970) was a Soviet and Russian aerospace engineer and scientist...
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    combined with the related Mil Mi-17, the two helicopters are the third most common operational military aircraft in the world. Mikhail Mil originally approached...
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    Plant. Mil participates in the Euromil joint venture with Eurocopter.[citation needed] Mil was established in 1947 under the guidance of Mikhail Mil as the...
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  • Look up mil, .mil, or mil. in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mil, mil, or MIL may refer to: Mil, Syria, a village in Syria Mil, Azerbaijan, a municipality...
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    cockpits. During the early 1960s, it became apparent to Soviet designer Mikhail Mil that the trend towards ever-increasing battlefield mobility would result...
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    weight. The helicopter was designed by Marat Tishchenko, protégé of Mikhail Mil, founder of the OKB-329 design bureau. The Mi-26 was designed to replace...
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    in the Soviet Union was the Mil Mi-1, modelled along the lines of the S-51 and Bristol Sycamore and flown by Mikhail Mil's bureau in September 1948. During...
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    later Russian Mil Mi-24 helicopter has been produced in many variants, as described below. In 1966, Soviet aircraft designer Mikhail Mil created a mock-up...
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    More than 1,000 were built in the USSR and 1,594 in Poland, as SM-1. Mikhail Mil began work on rotary-winged aircraft before 1930, but the Mi-1, his first...
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    On 31 August 2024, a Mil Mi-8 helicopter crashed in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, killing all 22 people on board. The aircraft, which was operated by Vityaz-Aero...
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    Major General Alexei Leonov Senior Lieutenant Simon Alexandrovich Marcus Mikhail Mil Heydar Aliyev Evdokia Zavaliy Astronaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov Pilot Khiuaz...
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    Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (UK: /kəˈlæʃnɪkɒf/ kə-LASH-nik-off, US: /-ˈlɑːʃ-/ -⁠LAHSH-; Russian: Михаил Тимофеевич Калашников, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil tʲɪmɐˈfʲejɪvʲɪtɕ...
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    plant manufactured a pilot batch of five helicopters Mi-1 designed by Mikhail Mil, but the series production was transferred to another enterprise. In...
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    has been one of the main Russian manufacturers of helicopters of the Mikhail Mil bureau design. In the 1990s management realized that there would be a...
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    Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician and statesman who served as the last leader of the Soviet...
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    leading constructor of the Soviet-Russian Kamov helicopter design bureau Mikhail Mil (1909–1970), Soviet aerospace engineer Konstantin Vyrupayev (1930–2012)...
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    Kuybyshev (1888–1935), revolutionary Yegor Ligachyov (1920–2021), statesman Mikhail Mil (1909–1970), helicopter designer Theodor Molien (1861–1941), mathematician...
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    mining expert and Soviet Deputy Commissar Vladimir Lobashev, physicist Mikhail Mil, aerospace engineer Mariya Orlyk, teacher and politician Sergei Orlov...
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  • Mikhail Gurevich) Alexander Mikulin (1895–1985), Russia – Mikulin AM-34 and other Soviet aircraft engines, co-developer of the Tsar Tank Mikhail Mil (1909–1970)...
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    Mike Nichols (born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky; November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014) was an American film and theatre director and comedian. He worked across...
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  • fighter-bomber aircraft Mikhail Mil, designer of the Mi-series helicopters, including Mil Mi-8 (the world's most produced helicopter) and Mil Mi-12 (the world's...
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  • the Mi-2, the V-20 had become a practically new design. Mil founder Mikhail Leontyevich Mil and designer Marat Nikolayevich Tishchenko unsuccessfully...
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  • November 18 – Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (d. 1976) November 22 – Mikhail Mil, Russian helicopter manufacturer (d. 1970) November 23 – Nigel Tranter...
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    Alexander Kazantsev, science fiction writer Mikhail Mil (did not graduate), helicopter designer, founder of the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant Fritz Noether,...
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  • co-founder of the OKB-155 MiG design bureau Mikhail Mil (1909–1970) – founder and general designer of the OKB-329 Mil design bureau Alexander Mikulin (1895–1985)...
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    aircraft MiG-21 Mikhail Mil, designer of the Mi-series helicopters, including Mil Mi-8 (the world's most produced helicopter) and Mil Mi-12 (the world's...
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    Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский, romanized: Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevskiy, IPA: [tʊxɐˈtɕefskʲɪj]; 16 February [O...
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    (initially designated Yak-22) was developed in direct competition with Mikhail Mil's Mi-1. Bearing a striking resemblance to the Sikorsky H-5, the Yak-100...
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  • Lyapidevsky, Soviet aviator and general MPC · 4728 4729 Mikhailmilʹ 1980 RO2 Mikhail Mil (1909–1970), Soviet scientist, aerospace engineer and designer of helicopters...
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    director Pavel Nilin (1908–1981), Soviet writer, journalist and playwright Mikhail Mil (1909–1970), Soviet aerospace engineer Andrei Katkov (1916–1995), Russian...
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