Abandoned AN-8 in Russia

Owen

From EnglishRussia.com, a crash landed AN-8 found in a forest near St. Petersburg, almost complete :

http://englishrussia.com/?p=2115

Interesting reading to kill 5 mins anyway!

oztots

I doubt it crach landed, looks like it was parked in there, i mean its still sitting nicely on its gears. And its facing towards the clearing.

donvito99

Its also just off what looks like a carpark. But ot is pretty exciting falling over a presumably crashed plane on google earth..maybe theres a reward!

Silenceisbliss

look at the directions of the engines.

Its parked there ready for a rapid response take off by the looks of it.

Cold war era.

sweden (could either be finland, not bothered to google) also currently employ this tactic of leaving planes scattered around the country side in unobtrusive places ready for deployment.

my guess is the antonov was a cold war equivilant and as such never saw a need to become airborn after a particular point

Silenceisbliss

bah ha ah aha...

after looking at google maps and finding its location, wont you all join me in a larf. He was vary careful what he showed on maps anyway.




this one however, I stumbled across at work one day. looks more interesting imo

crisco10

Silenceisbliss wrote: »

bah ha ah aha...

after looking at google maps and finding its location, wont you all join me in a larf. He was vary careful what he showed on maps anyway.

Thats bloody hilarious!!! well done on finding it!

muppet01

Silenceisbliss wrote: »

look at the directions of the engines.

Its parked there ready for a rapid response take off by the looks of it.

Cold war era.

sweden (could either be finland, not bothered to google) also currently employ this tactic of leaving planes scattered around the country side in unobtrusive places ready for deployment.

my guess is the antonov was a cold war equivilant and as such never saw a need to become airborn after a particular point

I agree,unless it dropped from the sky and didnt damage the trees at its rear!!

Run_to_da_hills

If that plane was discovered in Ireland there would be nothing left of it, IE all the gauges and instruments would have been long been stripped out of it, it would be covered in grafitti and of course every window would be smashed. :mad:

crisco10

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

If that plane was discovered in Ireland there would be nothing left of it, IE all the gauges and instruments would have been long been stripped out of it, it would be covered in grafitti and of course every window would be smashed. :mad:

Graffiti implies its artistic. it would more likely be:

"Anto wuz her 05" scrawled on the fuselage.

lol

ian_m

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

If that plane was discovered in Ireland there would be nothing left of it, IE all the gauges and instruments would have been long been stripped out of it, it would be covered in grafitti and of course every window would be smashed. :mad:

Yep, I'd have the cockpit stripped out and in my living room connected to my flight sim.

EvilMonkey

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

If that plane was discovered in Ireland there would be nothing left of it, IE all the gauges and instruments would have been long been stripped out of it, it would be covered in grafitti and of course every window would be smashed. :mad:

Looks like their is a few bits missing in the pics.

Run_to_da_hills

EvilMonkey wrote: »

Looks like their is a few bits missing in the pics.

Probably taken for spares.