If memory serves correctly, the soviets had a jet ground effect plane that
could hold many troops and tanks and such, the plan was, if necessary it
could fly from their home to the east coast of the US if an attack was
deemed necessary
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From: Piers Hemy
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2015 3:48 PM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Interesting Aircraft
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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