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Re: Check out this...see if you
Posted by Mikael Olrog on Fri Nov 23, 2001 02:10:49 PM
In reply top Re: Check out this...see if you posted by Tulio on Fri Nov 23, 2001 11:38:36 AM
I can confirm that the photos are from the example preserved at the Monino museum outside Moscow.
/Mikael
: The odd-looking aircraft is a Soviet Wing-in-ground effect
: airplane; I was tested in the Black Sea
: for a while as well as in other areas; it was retired and
: the pictures are likely coming from one of the
: museums around Moscow. I don't recall the Soviet name for
: this aircraft, but if I remember
: correctly, there have been news recently about re-starting
: the research on these kind of aircraft.
:
: There is even a plastic scale model for this particular ai
: rcraft, called (I remembered) the Ekranoplane.
:
: Saludos!
:
: Tulio