Weird Russian planes

[LotoSteve]

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

http://englishrussia.com/images/flying_fortress/1.jpg

[jayboat]

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

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 :D

[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: