Ekranoplan win
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Very cool site.
I've always loved the Ekranoplan, I would love to take a look at it. It must have been a pretty amazing sight to see it flying.
The pictures really do highlight how so much Russian engineering is just left outside going to waste. There are fascinating machines all over the country, abandoned and slowly returning to nature.
I've always loved the Ekranoplan, I would love to take a look at it. It must have been a pretty amazing sight to see it flying.
The pictures really do highlight how so much Russian engineering is just left outside going to waste. There are fascinating machines all over the country, abandoned and slowly returning to nature.
kING STEEL! and a vodka bottle the size of a t-34!
bob1179 said:
Very cool site.
I've always loved the Ekranoplan, I would love to take a look at it. It must have been a pretty amazing sight to see it flying.
The pictures really do highlight how so much Russian engineering is just left outside going to waste. There are fascinating machines all over the country, abandoned and slowly returning to nature.
A colleague of mine saw these flying many years ago when he was in the Russian army. I've always loved the Ekranoplan, I would love to take a look at it. It must have been a pretty amazing sight to see it flying.
The pictures really do highlight how so much Russian engineering is just left outside going to waste. There are fascinating machines all over the country, abandoned and slowly returning to nature.
I get the impression that there is a lot of frustration that the "New Russia" slags off the Soviet era yet is getting huge profit from the work that was done during that time and not investing appropriately to carry it on in the future. Science and engineering being 2 areas that are really being neglected.
bga said:
bob1179 said:
Very cool site.
I've always loved the Ekranoplan, I would love to take a look at it. It must have been a pretty amazing sight to see it flying.
The pictures really do highlight how so much Russian engineering is just left outside going to waste. There are fascinating machines all over the country, abandoned and slowly returning to nature.
A colleague of mine saw these flying many years ago when he was in the Russian army. I've always loved the Ekranoplan, I would love to take a look at it. It must have been a pretty amazing sight to see it flying.
The pictures really do highlight how so much Russian engineering is just left outside going to waste. There are fascinating machines all over the country, abandoned and slowly returning to nature.
I get the impression that there is a lot of frustration that the "New Russia" slags off the Soviet era yet is getting huge profit from the work that was done during that time and not investing appropriately to carry it on in the future. Science and engineering being 2 areas that are really being neglected.
I was talking to a metallurgist on the site I am on and he was explaining to me that when he started out he was encouraged and given the best of everything, he then told me that when the Soviet Union fell that all the money and investment dried up and it wasn't until the foreign companies moved in that the money started to trickle through again.
The thing that suprised me about Russia (and the CIS as a whole) is the amount of engineering and infrastructure that has been left to rust.
On my current job they have converted the old powerstation from peat/turf burning to gas. The entire peat burning infrastructure, including the conveyor systems, towers, electrical system, railways and about a thousand wagons have just been switched off, parked up and left.
I really should go out and take some pictures of it all as it really is quite eerie wandering around all this abandoned and silent machinery.
bob1179 said:
The thing that suprised me about Russia (and the CIS as a whole) is the amount of engineering and infrastructure that has been left to rust.
On my current job they have converted the old powerstation from peat/turf burning to gas. The entire peat burning infrastructure, including the conveyor systems, towers, electrical system, railways and about a thousand wagons have just been switched off, parked up and left.
That's just the way they've always been though....never throw anything away or scrap, just abandon it.On my current job they have converted the old powerstation from peat/turf burning to gas. The entire peat burning infrastructure, including the conveyor systems, towers, electrical system, railways and about a thousand wagons have just been switched off, parked up and left.
That's why some really cool WW2 era stuff has come out of Russia in recent years, as they just left it all ...... somewhere....out of sight.
Some of the stacks of USA/UK lend lease stuff that has been found still all in it's original packing crates.....unused.... is astounding.
The Soviets/Russians have built some good and sometimes wacky kit over the years.
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