Thank God for the Cold War

[VladTepes]

and the massive amounts of funding it allowed for aviation technology, which gave us bizarre and wonderful thing slike this...



VVA-14 R.L.Bartini (http://www.testpilot.ru/russia/bartini/vva/vva_e.htm)

[Chucaro]

Looks like a Toyota Prado with wings :D

[VladTepes]

Wash your mouth out ! This is much prettier !

[Deefa]

looks like thunderbird 2 or is it one?

[JohnF]

Love the Bereiv aircraft, especially the BE-103 & BE-200. Never had seen this one of theirs though.

I have the BE-103 as my desk top background.

[Phoenix]

I don't think VTOL is the right description for it, this craft used the Wing in ground effect to get enough speed to take off if I recall.

The russians made some incredible WIG (Wing in ground effect) aircraft (also called ekranoplane)

have a look here ;)

The WIG Page - information about Ekranoplan and Wing-In-Ground effect craft (http://www.se-technology.com/wig/index.php)

[clean32]

and the massive amounts of funding it allowed for aviation technology, which gave us bizarre and wonderful thing slike this...



VVA-14 R.L.Bartini (http://www.testpilot.ru/russia/bartini/vva/vva_e.htm)

you may get your wish sooner than you think

http://www.maranathamrc.com/The%20Russian%20Bear%20Awaking.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/world/europe/09iht-russia.4.5642323.html

[VladTepes]

of course, Beriev haven;t given up on the idea it seems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriev_Be-2500 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriev_Be-2500)

anyone got some money to invest.....




oh and Phoenix i thought i posted stuff re the Ekranoplan somewhere previously... I'll have to havea dig around.

[Phoenix]

You probably did mate, I'm sure that we discussed them once before!!!

[Captain_Rightfoot]

It reminds me of thunderbird #2 :)

[VladTepes]

Maybe that where the Thunderbird people got their inspiration....

[Bigbjorn]

The cold war also produced the ultimates in aviation developments, the B70 Valkyrie and the SR71 Blackbird. Nothing since has come close. I thought the B58 Hustler was pretty cool too.

[VladTepes]

Some of the fantastic Beriev machines

YouTube- Beriev A-40 Albatros/Be-42 NATO Code: Mermaid

YouTube- More...Beriev A-40

and one a bit more modern

YouTube- Beriev Be-200 watershow

YouTube- Be-200 english commentary 2

[VladTepes]

clean32 - speaking of the cold war reheating....

New Russian stealth fighter makes first flight | Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60S0UW20100129?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a49:g43:r1:c 1.000000:b31221554:z0)

With new fighter in hand, Putin wants modern bombers | Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6203YH20100301)

Cool huh !

[Chucaro]

Nice crop duster :) now the French and the Saab people have to be on the race.

[VladTepes]

The cold war also produced the ultimates in aviation developments, the B70 Valkyrie .

YouTube- XB-70 Valkyrie - The Mach 3 bomber