What a Russian Giant! In Dry Dock too!

Steyr

http://igor113.livejournal.com/51213.html

Sterling Archer

What a monster, imagine being out fishing and then seeing that monster lumbering towards you :eek:, nice find Steyr

bladeruner

A Caspian Sea Monster.

Flies in Ground effect . can carry payload of a ship but at 200 to 300 knots.

Gotta say I love Russian design, just looking at this and the HIND helicopter would make you run away from conflict with the russkies...

Mr Benevolent

In it's working life:



A monster. It's actually more terrifying in drydock!

Fabio

Holy God what a monster! Class!

shizz

Its like something out of metal gear solid

mike65

A great design (Ground Effect) that really should have been more successful in other applications. That said wouldn't be much good over the Irish sea unless flying in current condtions - ie flat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D8ewD6YX-0

Boeing were working on a design, the Pelican but it seems to be dormant.

Overature

what are the big tube things on the top for, they look like missile things

Steyr

Overature wrote: »

what are the big tube things on the top for, they look like missile things

6 cruise missile ( Anti ship ) launchers located along the top of her, look at the turret at the front of the first 2 launchers!! Imagine if you HAD to be sat there if they launched!!.

Overature

Steyr wrote: »

6 cruise missile ( Anti ship ) launchers located along the top of her, look at the turret at the front of the first 2 launchers!! Imagine if you HAD to be sat there if they launched!!.

sound man thanks

Plowman

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Run_to_da_hills

Try to fit that thing into Hanger 6 :pac:

pclancy

Amazing craft, I seen a doco about it years back that was amazing. The Soviets were fantastic engineers, if they'd had the budgets and technology of the US they would have come up with more amazing stuff.

Run_to_da_hills

pclancy wrote: »

Amazing craft, I seen a doco about it years back that was amazing. The Soviets were fantastic engineers, if they'd had the budgets and technology of the US they would have come up with more amazing stuff.

They were away ahead of the Yanks in a lot of things.

pclancy

Is there more info on them anywhere?

Dublin_Gunner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea_Monster

Wiki I know, but a good read.

pclancy

Peter Jackson needs to buy that and use it in his next Movie. He loves planes!

Run_to_da_hills

pclancy wrote: »

Is there more info on them anywhere?

More here, according to this Boeing also had some interest in them.

Andrew33

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

They were away ahead of the Yanks in a lot of things.

Maybe the Russians were more innovative then the Yanks because they had to be!
The Yanks just threw money at things until it worked, the Russians thought laterally from the word go.

NASA spent millions developing a pen that would work in space, the Russians use a pencil:D

dloob

Andrew33 wrote: »

Maybe the Russians were more innovative then the Yanks because they had to be!
The Yanks just threw money at things until it worked, the Russians thought laterally from the word go.

NASA spent millions developing a pen that would work in space, the Russians use a pencil:D

The pencil thing is a myth you know.
They both used pencils at first and then grease pencils when they discovered bits of graphite in your control panels are bad.
A private company developed the space pen and sold them to NASA and the soviets and of course people on the ground with too much money.

Andrew33

dloob wrote: »

The pencil thing is a myth you know.
They both used pencils at first and then grease pencils when they discovered bits of graphite in your control panels are bad.
A private company developed the space pen and sold them to NASA and the soviets and of course people on the ground with too much money.

I know, I know, but it makes good copy and it DOES emphasise the different approachs both nations took to solving similar problems.

dloob

Actually didn't Howard Hughes inadvertently build an ekranoplan with the Spruce Goose

billy few mates

Copy and paste these coordinates into Google Earth to see it for yourself....:)

42°52'54.94"n 47°39'24.43"e

charlemont

Wow ! She's a beast, An amazing machine.

kub

billy few mates wrote: »

Copy and paste these coordinates into Google Earth to see it for yourself....:)

42°52'54.94"n 47°39'24.43"e

Thanks for that, she is indeed massive. I must admit I tried the street view....obviously no joy, I imagine though I would have been impressed at the fact that street view worked.

lintdrummer

Seems the Russians have half perfected a camouflage suit too!:p

LLU

Great pictures. I wonder why just one engine has that grille over the front? I thought maybe the others may have had theirs removed, only I don't see any evidence on them of having one attached.

Delancey

Shane_ef wrote: »

What a monster, imagine being out fishing and then seeing that monster lumbering towards you :eek:, nice find Steyr

A monster indeed - when a U2 spyplane caught this craft on the slipways the CIA photo analysts struggled to decide what it was but settled on calling it the '' Caspian Sea Monster ''.

J50KPK

The Yanks just threw money at things until it worked, the Russians thought laterally from the word go.

Very true. At RIAT at Fairford a number of years back the USAF had a C5 Galaxy sitting nose on to the nose of an Antonov 124. Both noses were up, both tails were down, enabling you to walk from the tail of the C5, out the front, into the front of the 124 and out its tail.

The aircraft of course were designed to do broadly the same task with a broadly similar design. The finishes of each however were vastly different. The C5 was beautifully presented with everything in exactly the right place and designed to perfection. The 124 on the other hand purveyed an air of sheer brute force, designed for getting a hard job done no matter what it was. Welding spurs were left rough without being rubbed down, aircraft systems were bare and exposed (on purpose of course to enable quick repair in inhospitable environs if necessary). Its crane and hoist system was designed to allow it to cope with changing one of its own engines if required. Fantastic. It just exuded a feeling of "I'm king of what I do, unlike that poncey C5 upstart over there looking all glammed up".

I love them both as aircraft, but have to say the 124 rose quite a bit in my estimation after that very stark comparison.

Dublin_Gunner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Nu94khHoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbecl88NsEQ

davepatr07

Russians sure know how to make weird and fascinating machines. Miss these one's though...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvpItzMOotY

Peace

I read somewhere that she's a bit heavy on diesel.

true

davepatr07 wrote: »

Russians sure know how to make weird and fascinating machines. Miss these one's though...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvpItzMOotY

sounds awesome. would not like to fly too often in one though. ...once was enough,.

charlemont

true wrote: »

sounds awesome. would not like to fly too often in one though. ...once was enough,.

Did you fly in one ? Most be some experience.