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Offline Furball

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What in buggery is this?
« on: February 24, 2004, 01:44:45 PM »
Anyone? :)






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What in buggery is this?
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2004, 01:47:27 PM »
I think it was a Soviet jet-powered seaplane, but I can't remember the designation.  I believe they did a show on Discovery Wings about it and some other weird seaplanes.

Offline palef

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What in buggery is this?
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2004, 02:09:29 PM »
Beriev VVA-14 ASW Search/Attack Platform Ekranoplan

It's a WIG (Wing In Ground-effect) design that flies at high speed very close to the surface. They can also be flown like a normal aircraft, but typically to a lower ceiling than a pure aircraft of similar size and power to weight ratio.

http://www.ctrl-c.liu.se/misc/ram/vva-14.html

Here's a nice site.
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Offline hogenbor

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What in buggery is this?
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2004, 07:32:33 AM »
My first thoight upon seeing that thing was :

'Mommy I'm scared' :-D

I have a book somewhere of the Monino aviatiom museum near Moscow, one of these things (if more than one were built that is) resides there. It is in pretty poor shape though.

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« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2004, 04:44:51 PM »
lol I saw Buggery and expected to find a thread about Reggie Mitchell
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« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2004, 04:47:37 PM »
It's Thunderbird 7 !! :)
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