That was pretty much what I was reminded of, Chris and Chris, although I
have not had the pleasure of seeing an Ekranoplan in the flesh. I have to
make do with a Google maps satellite view at http://tinyurl.com/qehp5y6 for
a view of the WiG Caspian Sea monster, at 70m long and 44m wingspan it is
hard to miss. YouTube has some footage. Somewhere!
Piers
On Sunday, 14 June 2015, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The Soviets tried all sorts of designs. About ten years ago we were on
> holiday in Sardinia when we saw something very similar to the A-90, flying
> only about 500m off the west coast, heading north:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-90_Orlyonok <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-90_Orlyonok>
>
> a wing-in-ground-effect machine. I thought at the time that the Italian
> Air Force must have been using them for coastal patrol, but it seems from
> that page that only the Soviets used them. It was a strange experience to
> see it, much like my first sighting of a Hind D taxying on ‘my’ airfield at
> RAF Bruggen.
>
> Chris
>
> > On 14 Jun 2015, at 16:49, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > I was watching the documentary "Into the Cold" the other day, and
> spotted an interesting aircraft that I had not seen before. It's a
> high-wing twin turbofan, with the engines mounted above the wing's leading
> edge close to the fuselage. It looks a bit like the Boeing YC-14:
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YC-14 <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YC-14>
> >
> > but quite a bit smaller. After some creative searching with Google, I'm
> pretty sure that it's either an Antonov AN-72 or AN-74 "Coaler":
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-72 <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-72>
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-74 <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-74>
> >
> > This is very interesting. I knew back in the day that the Soviets
> had pretty much copied the YC-14, using trailing arm landing gear in place
> of the Boeing jackpost, similar to the gear on the C-130. The Soviets
> adopted the Coandă effect to improve STOL performance, where some engine
> exhaust is diverted to the flaps.
> >
> > Until now, I did not know that this design was still around.
>
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