Soviet Aircraft
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The Tupolev Tu-22 Story
An excellent channel... well worth watching.
An excellent channel... well worth watching.
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"To be alive
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Your destination remains
Elusive."
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Your destination remains
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The Vulcan also carried 96 pints of alcohol. One of our sorties was cancelled because of a leak. The first sign was the policeman guarding the aircraft was drunk. Then we discovered the aircraft was as well. It was lucky as I had a monumental headache too.
The alcohol was intended to deice cockpit and bomb aimer's windows. The installation of gold film windows meant it was never used for windscreens and the bomb aimer's window didn't ice up. The fix was to remove the requirement.
The alcohol was intended to deice cockpit and bomb aimer's windows. The installation of gold film windows meant it was never used for windscreens and the bomb aimer's window didn't ice up. The fix was to remove the requirement.
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Ethyl alcohol PN?Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 6:22 pmThe Vulcan also carried 96 pints of alcohol. One of our sorties was cancelled because of a leak. The first sign was the policeman guarding the aircraft was drunk. Then we discovered the aircraft was as well. It was lucky as I had a monumental headache too.
The alcohol was intended to deice cockpit and bomb aimer's windows. The installation of gold film windows meant it was never used for windscreens and the bomb aimer's window didn't ice up. The fix was to remove the requirement.
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Re: Soviet Aircraft
737 too. There was always the Standby Compass if you got stuck.............
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TGG, in my case I think it was methanol though it was probably ethanol disguised as kokkonelli. In the aircraft case I don't know.
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I had not come across the variant before today.
Myasishchev VM-T Atlant
The Myasishchev VM-T Atlant (Russian: Мясищев ВМ-Т «Атлант», with the "VM-T" ("BM-T") standing for Vladimir Myasishchev – Transport) was a variant of Myasishchev's M-4 Molot bomber (the "3M"), re-purposed as a strategic-airlift airplane. The VM-T was modified to carry rocket boosters and the Soviet space shuttles of the Buran program. It is also known as the 3M-T.
The design was conceived in 1978 when Myasishchev was asked to solve the problem of transporting rockets and other large space vehicles to the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Engineers used an old 3M (a modified M-4 bomber) and replaced the empennage with dihedralled horizontal stabilizers with large, rectangular end-plate tailfins to accommodate payloads measuring as large as twice the diameter of the aircraft's fuselage. A large, aerodynamically optimized cargo container, placed on top of the aircraft, would contain the freight. In addition, a new control system was added to the plane to compensate for the added weight.
The Atlant first flew in 1981 and made its first flight with cargo in January 1982. Its main task was to ferry Energia rocket boosters from their development plant to the Baikonur Cosmodrome. On several occasions, the Soviet space shuttle Buran was piggybacked to the Cosmodrome as well.
Two Atlants were built. They were replaced in 1989 by Antonov's An-225 Mriya. One Atlant (RF-01502) is kept at the Zhukovsky International Airport in Russia owned by TsAGI and Gromov Flight Research Institute, the other one (RA-01402) at Dyagilevo (air base) in Ryazan.
Myasishchev VM-T Atlant
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I saw it at the Moscow Air Show in 1992, along with some other seriously weird stuff, in the static park, but without the tank. It was held at Zhukovsky (their equivalent of Boscombe Down), and I reckoned they'd emptied the hangars to put some flying machines on display. There was the Ruslan, (the Russian equivalent of the Space Shuttle), the Be-12 amphibian, and the Tu-144 (amongst others), which was open to the public, but with very long queues. I have photos, but it would take a while to find them.
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We'll wait.
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Well worth the wait.
Thanks Tango
PP
Thanks Tango
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Anyone who cannot identify aircraft will be sent to gulag!
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last but not least...
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Ultimate taildragger!
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I think an oleo needs pumping up.
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They have both a Concorde and a Tu144 on pedestals on the roof. I can't remember details but up close you could see the differences, mainly IIRC, the underwing design. The 144 was certainly chunkier.
That was my 3rd Concorde that I had visited in museums.
They have both a Concorde and a Tu144 on pedestals on the roof. I can't remember details but up close you could see the differences, mainly IIRC, the underwing design. The 144 was certainly chunkier.
That was my 3rd Concorde that I had visited in museums.
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Thanks PN
I've just put a visit to this museum on my bucket list.
I've seen two Concordes here; AF at Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy and BA at the Intrepid in NYC.
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I've just put a visit to this museum on my bucket list.
I've seen two Concordes here; AF at Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy and BA at the Intrepid in NYC.
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PP, it is well worth it for a comparison.
Same roof there is a corrugated sheet shack, aka JU52, and a helter-skelter to the ground floor.
Same roof there is a corrugated sheet shack, aka JU52, and a helter-skelter to the ground floor.
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You can't be "girly boy" to be Russian aviation photographer...
Though you remain
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"To be alive
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To go
Your destination remains
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Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
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Re: Soviet Aircraft - Yak 40, 42 pedals...
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."