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Posted By: Professor Music - Sat Mar 13, 2010
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and yet we won the cold war! :cheese:

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 03/13/10 at 10:48 PM

One thing about the Ruskies, the did build large. Each time we went through the Straits of Gibraltar we got over flown by one of their strategic bombers, "The Bear". One seriously large aircraft.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 03/14/10 at 12:32 AM

i bet that made ya nervous. :gulp:

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 03/14/10 at 12:36 AM

Naw, they were there to take pictures of us so we all piled onto the flight deck with our cameras and had a Kodak moment!

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 03/14/10 at 10:31 AM

it was probably a fuji moment for them sweetie! 😉

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 03/14/10 at 10:58 AM

It's really interesting to see what the USSR could build when they really set their mind to it. When most people think of Cold War Russian engineering, they think of their knock offs of western products like the ZIL limousines (which looked almost identical to ten year old Packards and Imperials), FED cameras (Leica clones which are popular today due to their cheap prices and compatibility with Leica lenses), and even their space shuttle (which, while it looked identical to the NASA space shuttle, was actually a very different design). Ekranoplans, on the other hand, are completely unique and awesome.

Posted by Salamander Sam in Chicago on 03/14/10 at 02:34 PM

Except they look like the Spruce Goose a little but when you get into aeronautics you're dealing with some pretty well defined science that governs the shape.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 03/15/10 at 01:40 AM

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