Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[Steve_D]

Is that a Space Shuttle down south next to the river?

Steve

[MartG]

Steve_D said:

Is that a Space Shuttle down south next to the river?

Steve

Where ?

[hidetheelephants]

A Buran shuttle presumably?

[16v_paddy]

MartG said:

Steve_D said:

Is that a Space Shuttle down south next to the river?

Steve

Where ?

Find roughly the halfway point of the longest runway then look between that & the river

[MartG]

16v_paddy said:

MartG said:

Steve_D said:

Is that a Space Shuttle down south next to the river?

Steve

Where ?

Find roughly the halfway point of the longest runway then look between that & the river

Ah - might have helped if you'd specified which of the 3 maps linked to recently you were talking about

[Steve_D]

MartG said:

16v_paddy said:

MartG said:

Steve_D said:

Is that a Space Shuttle down south next to the river?

Steve

Where ?

Find roughly the halfway point of the longest runway then look between that & the river

Ah - might have helped if you'd specified which of the 3 maps linked to recently you were talking about

Sorry, try here.
https://www.google.com/maps/@55.5514448,38.1453648...
Steve

[Fastdruid]

Steve_D said:

MartG said:

16v_paddy said:

MartG said:

Steve_D said:

Is that a Space Shuttle down south next to the river?

Steve

Where ?

Find roughly the halfway point of the longest runway then look between that & the river

Ah - might have helped if you'd specified which of the 3 maps linked to recently you were talking about

Sorry, try here.
https://www.google.com/maps/@55.5514448,38.1453648...
Steve

Looking at wikipedia it's Baikal OK-2K1

[Eric Mc]

The Russians built a number of different Buran type vehicles (just as the Americans did with their Space Shuttle).

[Speed 3]

Sad story, aircraft crashed a couple of weeks later, killing the plot:

http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/world-news/the...

[FourWheelDrift]

[MartG]

Ummm...nope, no idea...

[Stickyfinger]

MartG said:

Ummm...nope, no idea...

Shorts LipVan ?

[Speed 3]

FourWheelDrift said:

I remember seeing that at Manchester in the 80's when it was on some European tour. Awesome combo.

[Eric Mc]

Speed 3 said:

FourWheelDrift said:

I remember seeing that at Manchester in the 80's when it was on some European tour. Awesome combo.

It wasn't that particular Shuttle.

The only Shuttle ever to come to the UK was "Enterprise". It stayed over following a visit to the 1983 Paris Air Show.

Altogether, six Shuttle Orbiters were built -

OV-99 Challenger
OV-101 Enterprise
OV-102 Columbia
OV-103 Discovery
OV-104 Atlantis
OV-105 Endeavour

There were also two different Shuttle Carrier Aircraft - NASA N805NA and N911NA.

N805NA was the one that carried Enterprise on its only European visit.

[Dr Jekyll]

The RAF's first C130, 50 years ago.

[MartG]

What the.......

[Stickyfinger]

them pesky Germans....

flame thrower defence on a Ju88


(edit to correct link)

Edited by Stickyfinger on Wednesday 21st December 09:02

[PRTVR]

Stickyfinger said:

them pesky Germans....

flame thrower defence on a Ju88

[Shar2]

FourWheelDrift said:

Have a look at the LII aircraft testing facility in Zhukovsky.

https://www.google.com/maps/@55.5708758,38.1548914...

Two TU-144s

WOW! There's some serious amount of kit there. Including the Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut forward swept wing test aircraft and Myasishchev M-55 high altitude recce aircraft.

[FourWheelDrift]

Shar2 said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Have a look at the LII aircraft testing facility in Zhukovsky.

https://www.google.com/maps/@55.5708758,38.1548914...

Two TU-144s

WOW! There's some serious amount of kit there. Including the Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut forward swept wing test aircraft and Myasishchev M-55 high altitude recce aircraft.

And has the 2nd longest airport runway - 5,402m, 17,723ft

Up until 2006 some of the MIG-29s and SU-27s there were used by the Edge of Space public flight business.