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Mi-4 ‘Hound’
• 1950s military and civil design • Widely used • S-55 lookalike
With its uncanny and possibly less than coincidental resemblance to the Sikorsky S-55, the Mi-4 appeared in 1952. Taking barely a year to reach flying status from initial design, the •Hound,’ as NATO codenamed it, became widely used at home and overseas. In some respects, though, it reflected the technology gap between the West and the Soviet Union—early Mi-4s had bakelite- and-wood rotor blades.
