House & Helicopter

Celebrating sixty years of the Mil Helicopter Company and one hundred years of helicopter flying the Fifth Mil Cup Helicopter Championship took place in August at Fox Lodge Heliport an hour north of Moscow, managed and run by Mikhail Kazachkov.

Mikhail, who organised the championships, flies the Mil Mi-2 and the Robinson R44 as well as the Mil Mi-34 positioned above on the helipad outside the club-house.

Fox Lodge, also known as FoxLand, is built on the site of a silt quarry, and consequently sits in a bowl surrounded by high granite walls...