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Originally Posted by wyome
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Originally Posted by wyome
Check out this crazy thing! Only the Russians would try something like this...
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At least it's got a cage to protect it from birds...
remember seeing a show where they showed a lot of unusual aircraft... that is a pretty cool fast boat/ plane
On ONE of the fourteen engines! [LOL]Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
Although the top six engines have caps on them... Whatever
Having taken a couple of aero engineering classes in college, I can wholeheartedly say that the math for that thing would not be fun. [panic]
the six up top were launch tubes for missiles, or maybe torpedoes...
ROSTISLAV ALEXEYEV EKRANOPLAN
This highly-secretive Russian Cold War aircraft began life in the sixties and was uncovered by US intelligence in 1966. Known as the Caspian Sea Monster, the eight-engine 37.6m-wingspan personnel carrier, designed by the Rotislav Alexeyev bureau, used wing in ground effect technology to skim over water, evading enemy radar. Only one example is thought to have entered service.
Those were missile launchers..Quote:
Originally Posted by HoneyBadger
There are videos out there of it flying. Basically just stays in ground effect over the water. Pretty interesting design
Thanks for the good info, I had no idea!Quote:
Originally Posted by wyome