Weird Russian planes

[LotoSteve]

http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2009/01/25/russian-flying-fortresses/

 

[jayboat]

Wow. How the hell that fugly thing ever got off the ground is a mystery to me.

Nobody will ever accuse the Russians of being leaders in the style department.

They didn't have a monopoly on weird planes, tho... here's a British contribution. Would love to see this thing next to the Spruce Goose. :sifone:

 

[Chris]

They're all "artist's interpretations".

Jay's is callen an Ekranoplane. it's more of a ship. max altitude is 5 meters. It was a surface-effect ship. Designed to skim across the water on compression lift generated by the wing's proximity to the water surface.

 

[MarylandMark]

Imagine the Red Bird shooting those battleship guns on the top- wonder if it would do a back flip?

Weird Russian planes = all of them

 

[pullmytrigger]

english russia is a CRAZY site.......check it out

 

[MacGyver]

I see a bunch of puller engines and some pushers too. Jeeez, how many engines does that thing have? Gotta be a gauge cluster phuck for the flight engineer.

 

[BBB725]

Russian.............stuff

 

[MacGyver]

Why do I have a feeling that each design was developed over a few bottles of Vodka

 

[MacGyver]

But the jet powered train is kinda cool :sifone:

 

[BBB725]

But the jet powered train is kinda cool :sifone:

I wonder how it corners at 200 mph:sifone: