Soviet ekranoplans - IMG_9978_sm.jpg

[Stas]

This is the situation with those famous ekranoplans. They are in town
of Kaspisjsk now.
I must go there to photograph them! :-)

This attachment is a prototype SM-6.

[Boomerang]

I am an old cold warrior, involved more frequently than I probably should
have been, in the issue of this "Caspian Sea Monster" as we described it
from the first overhead photography we had of its construction and testing.
What a delight to see these shots, so many years later, and to recall how
things used to be. Thank you!

[Grumpy AuContraire[_2_]]

Boomerang wrote:

> I am an old cold warrior, involved more frequently than I probably should
> have been, in the issue of this "Caspian Sea Monster" as we described it
> from the first overhead photography we had of its construction and testing.
> What a delight to see these shots, so many years later, and to recall how
> things used to be. Thank you!
>
>


I appreciate the closer look provided by the photos. I wonder if there
are any plans to put them in museums?

JT

[Al Denelsbeck]

Stas > wrote in
:

> This is the situation with those famous ekranoplans. They are in town
> of Kaspisjsk now.
> I must go there to photograph them! :-)


Google Earth, or Google maps, enter "N 42.882192 E 47.656665" and
then just cruise around that area, mostly due east. Found all three
pictured here I believe, and some hovercraft as well.

There are a lot of spellings of that particular city name, made the
search somewhat interesting...


- Al.

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[Stas]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:49:32 -0400, "Boomerang"
> wrote:

>I am an old cold warrior, involved more frequently than I probably should
>have been, in the issue of this "Caspian Sea Monster" as we described it
>from the first overhead photography we had of its construction and testing.
>What a delight to see these shots, so many years later, and to recall how
>things used to be. Thank you!
>

My pleasure!

These things captured my imagination in childhood and I had a dream to
build my own 4-seater WIG, but limited myself with building paper
model of it :-)

I wish one day these ekranoplans will make its way to a museum.
BTW, Lun', as it says on the web site, can be made flyable again!