Stepped Bottom Caspian Sea Monster Ekranoplan Flight - 300MPH

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01-15-2012, 04:42 PM

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Towards the end of the 3rd video it say's that one of the Ekranoplans is for sale. Come on, someone step up to the plate, where else are you going to get a turnkey, 400 MPH, poker run machine for you and 352 of your closest friends.

01-16-2012, 04:18 AM

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http://www.yachtboutique.com/Designe...Ekranoplan.htm

01-16-2012, 06:24 AM

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Cool, now I've got to win 2 Powerballs.

01-16-2012, 12:49 PM

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The "Spruce Goose" floats and flies into the 21st century!
Very cool! Glad to see we wern't the only military power who comes up with some big expenditure, short lived projects!

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01-16-2012, 01:09 PM

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Ekranoplan

Like Werner Von Braun, Rostislav Alekseev was a true visionary. Neither cared for the idealogy of their governments. They wanted only to see their creations built. This is a video of the maiden flight of the first Ekranoplan. Commentary is in English;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlEt0...eature=related

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01-16-2012, 03:35 PM

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did they say what the range of that pig was ?

03-10-2012, 09:35 AM

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did they say what the range of that pig was ?

I suppose it would depend upon the payload?

03-10-2012, 11:34 AM

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I saw that on an episode of weird weapons on the military channel. The russians also considered using it for fast civilian transport, but I think the range wasnt far enough. Just imagine stuffing that sucker into a rogue wave at 300mph! Randy