Bj”rn Forsstr”m (2:203/614.61) wrote to Steven Horn at 13:27 on 26 May 2006:

 BF> If it was the same that was here, lifting big power-line
 BF> constructions out to it's place I don't know but it was BIG.
 BF> Then I saw a big Orion helicopter in Greece once. The 2 Vertol
 BF> helicopter that stood beside looked like mosquitos.

Bjorn,

The helicopter was a Mil-26 and you can easily find out about it on the
Web.  It is the world's largest helicopter and has a payload capacity of a
Lockheed C-130 Hercules and then some.

The one we saw here had been chartered for the lifting of heavy equipment
in Alberta's oil fields but it was chartered by Ekati to bring in heavy
equipment to the NWT diamond mine that the company had not been able to
bring in over the ice roads. 

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven.horn{at}gmail.com)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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