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    Image of mchart mchart
    11/14/09

    In reply to Russian K7 Flying Fortress: If World War II Had Never Ended

    If you think that is cool, the soviet Ekranoplan was/is even cooler. I didn't even know these beasts exsisted until I played 'World in Conflict: Soviet Assault' #russia
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    11/15/09

    @mchart: Oh yes, we very much care for Ekranoplans around here.

    [jalopnik.com] #russia
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    Image of SundaySunday SundaySunday
    11/13/09

    In reply to Russian K7 Flying Fortress: If World War II Had Never Ended
    The wing of this aircraft was repurposed and is now a block of flats in Murmansk.

    --Not really, but look at that leading edge. Amazing. #russia
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Russian K7 Flying Fortress: If World War II Had Never Ended
    If I were owner and CEO of my own company, I don't know what that company would make or do. But for damn sure, this glorious creation would be my world headquarters building. Thus outfitted, my competitors, whomever they were, would declare chapter 7 out of pure fear. #russia
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    11/13/09

    In reply to Russian K7 Flying Fortress: If World War II Had Never Ended

    Another in a series of Stalin's delusions of grandeur. The K-7 wasn't the only big thingie planned by the Soviets in the 1930s. Stalin wanted a Palace of the Soviets to be built in Moscow. It would have been 1,360 feet tall with a huge statue of Lenin on top. Construction got as far as the foundation and the steel framework for the first couple of stories. A little unpleasant matter with Adolf Hitler ended the dream. #russia
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    Image of Ryanrule Ryanrule
    11/13/09


    @tonyola: Have you seen hitlers plans for a new berlin?

    [en.wikipedia.org] #russia
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    tonyola promoted this comment Ryanrule was starred Ryanrule was unstarred
    Image of superveloce superveloce
    11/13/09

    In reply to Russian K7 Flying Fortress: If World War II Had Never Ended
    Why is it attacking a flying saucer? #russia
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    Armand promoted this comment superveloce was starred superveloce was unstarred
    Image of Armand Armand
    11/13/09

    @superveloce: Why not? #russia
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    11/13/09

    In reply to Russian K7 Flying Fortress: If World War II Had Never Ended
    Man, they didn't add a seventh engine - there's seventeen!

    The top nacelle engines are wearing props both fore and aft - that's an engine for each. There seems to be yet another just above the trailing edge of the wing, to bring us up to a nice prime number.

    Anybody remember that pilot who brought his plane back using engine thrust alone for yaw control, after his rudder went out? Crazy stuff. What kind of vectoring could you get with high and low, fore and aft, side to side engine arrays? Careful, or you might wind up meeting yourself on the way back!

    I like levers in the control area of my car: manual shifter, wipers, lights, turn signals etc. Big, tangible motion yields immediate results. Now consider a throttle lever for each engine - that's a fricking forest between the seats.

    Probably not. Some of these early big ships were set up almost like, well, ships - you rang an engine room telegraph and somebody buried in the wing would actually turn the wick up right there at the source.

    Damn, that thing is big. #russia
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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    11/13/09

    In reply to Russian K7 Flying Fortress: If World War II Had Never Ended
    This some straight-up Miyazaki shit right here... #russia
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    11/13/09


    @bmoreDLJ: Awesome reference. Porco Rosso had some of the best fictional aircraft, right up there with Tailspin and Crimson Skies. #russia
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    Image of muhnkee_2 - Avantime Owner and 100% Jaloper muhnkee_2 - Avantime Owner and 100% Jaloper
    11/13/09

    In reply to Russian K7 Flying Fortress: If World War II Had Never Ended
    I am in moscow right now for work, and after a couple of nights of drinking vodka with my russian colleagues i suddenly dont find these things that unbelievable!! #russia
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    FTGDWolverineEdition'09 promoted this comment muhnkee_2 - Avantime Owner and 100% Jaloper was starred muhnkee_2 - Avantime Owner and 100% Jaloper was unstarred
    Image of twitchykun (Level 1 Jalop-Knight) twitchykun (Level 1 Jalop-Knight)
    11/13/09

    In reply to Russian K7 Flying Fortress: If World War II Had Never Ended
    In Soviet Russia, physics violates YOU. #russia
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    11/13/09

    @twitchykun (Level 1 Jalop-Knight): Now, that was uncomfortably funny.
    /bending over #russia
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    Image of twitchykun (Level 1 Jalop-Knight) twitchykun (Level 1 Jalop-Knight)
    11/13/09

    @Elhigh: you know, reading it now...oh dear. #russia
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    Image of evilvocho evilvocho
    11/13/09

    In reply to Russian K7 Flying Fortress: If World War II Had Never Ended
    the one in the renderings never existed, the one in the pictures did exist, according to wikipedia they built only one:
    [en.wikipedia.org] #russia
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    Matt Hardigree promoted this comment evilvocho was starred evilvocho was unstarred
    Image of Matt Hardigree Matt Hardigree
    11/13/09

    @evilvocho: Yeah, these are really stretching what the Russians were doing. But you know this is what they were thinking... #russia
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    Image of evilvocho evilvocho
    11/13/09

    @Matt Hardigree: I know what you mean. I once heard some guy on a space race tv show talk about the difference between the american and soviet program. Americans prefered the "Lotus approach": add lightness, use modern materials and technology, etc. The soviets, instead, remained using heavy materials and just relying on more POWER! More thrust, rockets, etc. Sorry, I´m sort of a part time soviet history investigator! #russia
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    Image of Jeb_Hoge Jeb_Hoge
    11/13/09

    @evilvocho: That's basically the entire design concept of the MiG-25. Stainless steel airframe, giant super-hot engines, put in fuel and GO! Then rebuild upon landing. #russia
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    Image of evilvocho evilvocho
    11/13/09


    @Jeb_Hoge: seems to be the approach to everything that moves or not in Russia´s engineering... I mean, look at their gigantic subs, trains, helicopters... hell, even statues!! #russia
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    Image of evoCS-Hench-Minion to the stars evoCS-Hench-Minion to the stars
    11/13/09

    @Jeb_Hoge: That's like applying the concepts of the top fuel dragster to aircraft. Awesome. #russia
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    Image of 6061-Tsix 6061-Tsix
    11/13/09

    In reply to Russian K7 Flying Fortress: If World War II Had Never Ended

    Kalinin! That thing was indeed cool, too bad the tail boom fell off on its first flight (Maybe Stalin shouldn't have killed off so many engineers?) The ANT-20 'Maxim Gorky' (see above) was even bigger, but that plane actually worked pretty well. (Until a fighter plane lost control and took it out during an aerial demo and it crashed into a bunch of people...)
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    Elhigh promoted this comment Edited by 6061-Tsix at 11/13/09 10:28 AM 6061-Tsix was starred 6061-Tsix was unstarred
    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    11/13/09

    @6061-Tsix: I knew someone would bring up the Gorky.

    That fighter plane was doing aerobatics around the Gorky, mostly because the pilot got bored just tooling along being, in effect, a visual aid for size comparison in real time. So he'd swing from side to side, fly circles, loop aroun...oops!

    His name even today is a soviet epithet. #russia
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    11/13/09

    In reply to Russian K7 Flying Fortress: If World War II Had Never Ended
    Good potatoe wodka!

    Da! #russia
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    Image of abgwin abgwin
    11/13/09

    In reply to Russian K7 Flying Fortress: If World War II Had Never Ended
    up yours, Howard Hughes. #russia
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    Ash Clutchem, Pokey Master promoted this comment abgwin was starred abgwin was unstarred
    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    11/13/09

    @abgwin: How I've never heart clicked you before, I do not know. But heart click for reading my mind. #russia
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    Image of abgwin abgwin
    11/13/09

    @Ash Clutchem, Pokey Master: the bizarre part is that in my mind's eye I keep seeing Randy Quaid fly one of these up into the alien's main weapon. #russia
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    Image of Peugeot--Making Bicycles Once Again Peugeot--Making Bicycles Once Again
    11/13/09

    @abgwin: In Soviet Russia the goose spruces you. #russia
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    Armand promoted this comment Peugeot--Making Bicycles Once Again was starred Peugeot--Making Bicycles Once Again was unstarred
    Image of Mobius Mobius
    04/29/09

    In reply to Dodge Viper Burned At The Stake
    This means WAR!
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    Image of Bumblebee Bumblebee
    11/18/08

    In reply to Russian Police Get All-Terrain Pursuit Trucks
    Anyone else think it lacks suspension travel?


    Or are the balloon tires the suspension?

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