The Russian government on October 5, 1950 had signed an order for a helicopter capable of transporting 12 persons or the GAZ-69 jeep. A helicopter of similar conception to the Sikorsky S-55 was designed within one year.
This is a 72-page illustrated book concentrating on the Mil Mi-4/4A Hound, containing 276 colour pictures as well as diagrams of the Mi-4A/AV Hound, Mi-4P, Mi4M and Mi-4ME.
Brief explanatory texts are provided in English, but it is the pictures, and especially the detail photographs, which are so valuable, forming the ideal starting point for any model documentation.