Here is the apartment of one of the creators of the amazing Tupolev Tu-154 airplane model for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004, (which you can download for free here). As you can see, he modeled a cockpit of a real Tupolev Tu-154 in his bedroom!!! All of the parts were taken from retired planes and then integraded with the Flight Simulator software. By the way, the guy behind this ambitious project wants to expand the cockpit so it can include more working parts from a real aircraft…
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We have shown you lots of museums lately. We covered a Russian Technology Museum, the outdoor car museum, aviation museum in Ulyanovsk, as well as aviation museum at night. Now take a lot at the Russian space museum…
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You probably know already that we are very biased towards Russian Cops on this site, mainly because most of them have no honor and take bribes constantly, nevertheless we are probably even more biased towards the insanely expensive cars some of them get to drive. Here is a gallery that shows you what they used to drive back in USSR days, make sure to click on the link down in the gallery to see what some of them drive these days…
Ilushin-86 remains the first Russian wide body passenger airliner. Making its maiden flight back in 1976, 42 out of 103 Il-86 produced, still remain flying today. Il-86 is a very safe aircraft, with only one crash with fatalities back in 2002. One thing that had been noted about Il-86 is their periodic long take off rolls. While most of the Il-86 take offs are pretty much uneventful, at some airports where the short runaways, high temperatures, humidity and heavy summer loads come into play, the take offs can appear quite dramatic (image 1, image 2, image 3)…
Here is a set of beautiful pictures from a very creative photographer. This time, the pictures come from the Moscow underground, take a look at how the subway lines are built there…
Ekranoplanes were invented by the Soviet Union engineer Rastislav Alexeev. They were created during Cold War, to serve as fast moving strategic “aircrafts” and were based on Caspian as well as Black Sea. These ekranoplanes could fly only meters off the ground, but had an advantage of flying fast under the radars (up to 550km/h on MD-160), carrying heavy loads as well as missiles. The “Caspian Sea Monster” also went into the history for being able to lift and fly 544 tons of dry weight, which is more weight than the biggest airplane in the world AN-225 can fly with…
“Lun” with 6 anti-ship missiles…
Even though this video is in Russian, it’s still worth watching since it shows you the rare archive videos of these birds in action…
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We’ve already told you about the new “Sukhoi Superjet 100 Regional Jet”. This plane had made it’s first flight in Komsomolks-na_Amure (eastern part of Russia) on May 19th, 2008. Who knows maybe these will be flying all over the world soon, just like the Brazilian Embraer-190, since the starting prices ($27 million) of these two birds are actually similar…
- here is how Superjet was created…
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We have already shown you the extensive collection of “Soviet Union Cars Part 1” and Part 2, as well as the showing you what the “Soviet Union Government Cars” had looked like, now it’s the turn of mighty cabriolets. Naturally people wouldn’t assume that Soviet Union with it’s harsh climate would even need to have a cabriolet, but nevertheless USSR had made quite a few interesting cabriolet designs, and here they are…
GAZ-14 Seagull Cabriolet
We have already shown you “Bird’s Eye Look at Moscow“, now here are some incredibly beautiful pictures from the top of a Moscow apartment building, which is the highest apartment building in Europe, the building’s height is 261 meters, and the pictures you see here were taken from 240…
Recently the news had surfaced that a Swiss pilot Yves Rossy a.k.a. “Fusion Man” had flown over the Alps using his jet powered wing. That’s all nice and everything, especially knowing that back in 1935 a Soviet engineer Mr. Sanfirov had himself designed and then tested his wing while parachuting out of an airplane, except that his wing didn’t cost $285,000 to build…
We have already shown you the old Soviet Locomotives, now here are few picture of one those timeless classics with a nice background view of modern Moscow…
Here are the pictures of Joseph Stalin’s Bunker that was built in the 1930s. This bunker is 50 meters below ground, and is located 17km away from Kremlin. The bunker is connected to Kremlin via the underground passages. During the WW2 Stalin often found himself living in this bunker, and undoubtedly that’s where a lot of important decisions were made…
