Has anyone modeled this yet?

[Gr.Viper 131]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartini_Beriev_VVA-14

 

 

http://www.monino.ru/index.sema?a=aviation...item&id=124

http://img13.nnm.ru/6/5/c/9/f/8ea3cc602b5e...a02ff758c93.jpg

http://img13.nnm.ru/a/e/1/e/4/adfdcc58c81b...ad9be6dcd15.jpg

 

52 ton take off weight, 12 lift engines, 2 engines for forward flight, 4 ton load, chaff, flares. That's Soviet Navy projects for you

 

No, it doesn't come with Chewbacca

[DarthRevan 3]

That is one ugly plane

[eraser_tr 29]

That actually flew?!

[+Dave 2,322]

That actually flew?!

 

 

No it scared the air to death to fly.

[+Florian 394]

No it scared the air to death to fly.

LOL ! ! !

Good one, Dave!

 

In general, i´d say only a mother can love this child, but here i guess the guy who made the blueprints commited suicide when the first model was built!

[Gr.Viper 131]

This was supposed to be a VTOL...

But they couldn't get the vertical engines right so it had to fly without them.

[+Brain32 265]

Actually I can't even say it's ugly - it's just too damn interesting.

[+daddyairplanes 10,243]

looks and sounds like one of their eurkranoplanes specially designed to use wing in(over?) ground effect to carry heavier load. had program on it on military channel few years ago plus got a magazine article one it.

 

on a waaaay more serious note it is rumored to have achieved a few kills against the VVS. when the fighter pilots got a visual on it they kept laughing so hard at it they flew into the ground

[Gr.Viper 131]

That thing could glide in ground effect at 8m. The designer also planned a 2500 ton thing, that could use ground effect at 150-200m, but sadly he died

[Slartibartfast 153]

Damn thats ugly... hell the Ugly tree would have run away seeing that coming in its direction...

[+daddyairplanes 10,243]

That thing could glide in ground effect at 8m. The designer also planned a 2500 ton thing, that could use ground effect at 150-200m, but sadly he died

 

 

i remember the show showing sketches of that one. that had a couple that weren't that big but big enough to carry ballistic missles in tubes similar to the road mobile ones(ss-20?). russians didn't make em pretty or with fine engineering. but they made em big and durable.

[rotarycrazy 4]

I dont know what it is more? ugly or intresting

[+Gepard 11,303]

Its an ekranoplane. It was designed as a very fast ship (500km/h) which can also hover over land. Armed with Sunburn ship to ship missiles is was a considerable threat to NATO surface vessels.

[Gr.Viper 131]

That one was a sub-hunter plane

http://www.testpilot.ru/russia/bartini/vva/vva_e.htm

 

I think it could scare the sub crew to death just by splashing at landing.

[jtin 0]

Looks kinda normal from the bottom - sorta like a B-29 on floats... but those two engines on the top...