Lately, an abandoned Boeing 747 jumbo jet was transformed into a 25-room hotel in the Stockholm-Arlanda airport and now, we have the Hotelicopter – the world’s first flying hotel made from a huge Soviet-made Mil V-12 helicopter.

Designed with the sophisticated, affluent traveler in mind, the Hotelicopter has 18 lavish rooms for people on the hunt for a truly unique inimitable travel experience. Each soundproofed room comes with a queen-sized bed, fine linens, a mini-bar, coffee machine, wireless internet access, flatscreen TVs and a range of amenities you’d look for in a flying five star hotel.

Other lavish features include private entertainment systems, showers, spa treatments, Jacuzzi, yoga classes, arcade gaming, a tea garden, Babysitting & Kids’ Kamp, blackjack/ping- pong table and playground for kids


YouTube - The Hotelicopter

AFAIK They only made 2 of these giant helos, one crashed during the initial testing and the other one was sent to Monino air museum out side of Moscow after project was abandoned. May be they decided to take it out the museum and make some money out of.

I would prefer to make the Hotelicopter based on MIL-26 though, far superior helo and less complex.

Very interesting and thanks for sharing my good man. It's about time they put this baby to some good use and frankly, I'd rather see any aircraft carrying people in luxury rather than nuclear missiles! The Homer was truly a massive beast and theoretically could have lifted an empty Boeing 737!!!

Rasoul jaan, I didn't know they put it in a museum. They had a little segment on it on the Military channel a little while ago (I think the program was called world's Tod 10 Helicopters), but now that you mention it, I can't remember if they ever showed it flying - apparently not too many people got the pleasure or flying this Simorgh! ;)

Wow that's one big bird.

Very interesting and thanks for sharing my good man. It's about time they put this baby to some good use and frankly, I'd rather see any aircraft carrying people in luxury rather than nuclear missiles! The Homer was truly a massive beast and theoretically could have lifted an empty Boeing 737!!!

Rasoul jaan, I didn't know they put it in a museum. They had a little segment on it on the Military channel a little while ago (I think the program was called world's Tod 10 Helicopters), but now that you mention it, I can't remember if they ever showed it flying - apparently not too many people got the pleasure or flying this Simorgh! ;)
Behrou jAn,

Yes it did fly and they flew it in 1971 (70??) Paris Air Show.
They borrowed the engines and transmission along with rotor head from MIL-6 to save money and even the rotor Blades came from same helo with slight aerodynamic modification and installed a set on each end of the short wing. But the beast was too complex with serious challenging flight manners, that is why the project was scraped.

IMO they could attract more high $ passengers if they had converted on of those AN-225 Mriya.

http://my-planes.com/freeware/An-225/An-225.gif

Wow Rasoul jaan, that's one little moosh I hadn't seen before ;)
Was this a production model or a concept?