Sulman From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 2029 posts, RR: 35 Reply 1, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 19659 times:
Airplanepics From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2003, 2726 posts, RR: 45 Reply 2, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 19640 times:
Hawk44 From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 759 posts, RR: 4 Reply 4, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 19561 times:
BNAflyer78 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 258 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 19425 times:
Sort of looks like something George Lucas came up with for Star Wars!
AeroWeanie From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 1601 posts, RR: 52 Reply 9, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 19313 times:
Its on display at Monino, less its wings. It was a WIG that could leave ground effect and was designed by Robert Bartini, an Italian who immigrated to the USSR. Beriev was forced to built the actual prototype.
KingGeo3 From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 164 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 4 days ago) and read 19068 times:
It really looks like the nose of a B-29. The erkanoplanes were a very interesting concept for aircraft. I read something about a ground effect troop-transport that was developed. It flew/skimmed the surface of the water at some ungodly speed, a couple of hundred kp/h.
Juventus From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 2835 posts, RR: 2 Reply 13, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 18824 times:
What the hell is that? I think I saw it on the Austin Powers movie. Looks like Dr. Evil's private jet.
AeroVodochody From Czech Republic, joined Feb 2005, 540 posts, RR: 2 Reply 16, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 18348 times:
Well....... its certainly.....creative....I guess.
Aa7e7 From United States of America, joined Jul 2004, 101 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 18097 times:
Blackbird1331 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 1892 posts, RR: 0 Reply 20, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 17710 times:
It was eventually used to scare away cockroaches.
Cameras shoot pictures. Guns shoot people. They have the guns.
TakeOff From United States of America, joined May 2004, 83 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 17602 times:
Now we know where the inspiration for the A380 came from...
Juventus From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 2835 posts, RR: 2 Reply 23, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 17534 times:
DAirbus From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 587 posts, RR: 2 Reply 24, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 17419 times:
Well...you know the old saying about airplanes:
If it's weird, It's British. If it's ugly, It's French. If it's weird and ugly, it's Russian.
"I love mankind. It's people I can't stand." - Charles Shultz
25 FriendlySkies: You mean it actually FLIES? This might just be my opinion, but I think a school bus has a better chance of getting of the ground than that hunk o' ju
26 DL021: That airplane is one of those whose crudeness on the ground is equally matched by its technique for grabbing the air and bending it to its will. This
27 Kerberos: I dont think it flew so much as it was repelled by the earth for being too ugly.
28 Rp tpa: SVIMVEAR!!......EVENINKVEAR!!.....er, AIRPLANEVEAR!!! some of you might remember an old commercial with an old Russian lady parading around in differe
29 San747: How can something like that fly? Gotta give the Russians credit for managing to get something like that off the ground... san747
30 Waukewan: The only thing the Russians did right was the Tu-144 Charger. I can't say that much for the pilots at the Paris Airshow.
31 Boeing73G: It looks worse than an A380, and it sure it has to look even uglier, maybe even scary in flight! Maybe a movie director to use it in a future movie?
32 Aztec01: The Soviets had a bunch of these WIG vehicles, small and huge. One of the most impressive was the Korabl' Maket (KM). Found this on http://www.samolet
33 CRJ200Mechanic: To me they look like something out of Spaceballs
35 Lightsaber: Man, I swear the enemy attacked me with one of these in a video game once... Pelican: Thanks for the link. This makes a lot more sense seeing it with
36 Cessna172RG: That last picture looks a lot like one of those amphibious fictional aircraft from the "Storm Rider" attraction at the Tokyo Disney Sea Resort that I'
37 HAWK21M: Sure looks weird.Are they any still Flying. regds MEL
38 Dba4U: Those Russian ground effect planes are really fascinating IMO, when the sovjets came up with the first one the western secret services thought that th
39 SAA-SAL: Just shows the quality of this forum... 38 Replies and about 35 saying this thing looks horrible, useless junk,russian technology is poor...etc. What
40 Gkirk: Sorry, SAA-SAL, but there is just some planes that aviation enthusiasts just think are plain ugly
41 Flightlover: No need to state things like the "only good thing the Russians built was the TU 144". Probably many of those who are so vociferous about their stateme
43 Btblue: I think it looks fantastic. Futuristic and looks like something out of Star Wars. Ahead of its time perhaps? Russia designed some truly amazing aircra
44 Backfire: The only thing the Russians did right was the Tu-144 Charger. You must be joking. The Tu-144 was one of the most screwed-up attempts to put prestige b
45 Waukewan: In the early 1990's the U.S. paid for one of the original Tu-144's to be refurbished as a technology testbed. They gave it to NASA which experimented
46 1MillionFlyer: The Mig-29 is a pretty awesome plane no matter how you slice it
47 HAWK21M: I think the AN124 was the best by the Russians. regds MEL
48 DeskPilot: Su 27 and Mig 29/31 are indications of what they can do in military terms. Plenty of types in civil.
49 ReLAX: I had the opportunity to fly a Tu-134 from LED to SVO a few years back. I had a seat over the wing. What amazed me was that the rivets on the wing wer
50 AR1300: Talking about horrid aircraft, I think that this is one of the ugliest aircratft ever built.Just look at it! Looks like a giant bug!Eww!! View Large V
51 IslandHopperCO: Re: that Korabl' Maket (KM) pictured above... Wow! A jet powered Spruce Goose! (just got back from finally watching the Aviator)
52 CRJ200Mechanic: If it even remotely flies, I give them credit. I don't think the look horrible, just out of the ordinary
53 Jet-lagged: It is fair to say that Russian planes often look 'different', but i don't think ugly is a fair term. When you think of russian industrial designs, the
54 JGPH1A: I am huge fan of these Russian designs - many of the ecranoplan designs were world-beating and very innovative, and only a serious lack of funds/comme
55 Pelican: I have to say it again: The Beriev Bartini VVA 14 was/is not an ecranoplan. pelican
56 JetBlast: It's not a video game creation... It's not a bug... It's not a mechanical turtle... What the f*** is it? Regards JetBlast @ BWI
57 Concentriq: c'mon guys. it looks a lot different when wings were actually attached to it. And while it does look a bit odd, there is no real need to bash it. Beri
58 DAYflyer: Like the A-380 for example.... And the Beechcraft 1900......
59 Lehpron: Some of you people, if not all, have no sense of engineering or aerodynamics. You're so asthetically obcessed about the same that thing over and over
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