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BO-105 lowlevel video

Pavel — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:36:00 +0000

Right-click to download BO-105 lowlevel video.
13,7 Mb, 3:34, 360 x 288, wmv
Pure extreme. I never knew and never saw helicopter can fly like this. My deepest appreciation goes to the pilot of this BO-105.

Beriev Be-12 ‘Mail’ video

Pavel — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:23:21 +0000

Right-click to download Be-12 ‘Mail’ video.
17,3 Mb, 2:50, 640 x 480, wmv
Nice video of Beriev’s Be-12 ‘Mail’ by NATO designation or ‘Seagull’ or ‘Chaika’ by Russian name. Be-12 is amphibious aircraft, on the video you can see Be-12P-200 modification for the fire-fighting. It is filling water tanks directly on the flight, without stopping, only sliding over the sea surface. Besides, excellent water landing footage. Great aircraft.

Video provided to Aviapedia by Alex Waning, APVW.nl.
You can by some of his DVDs here: Soviet military aviation in Germany DVD

The runway is wet video

Pavel — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 12:07:15 +0000

Right-click to download The runway is wet video.
12,9 Mb, 2:08, 312 x 248, wmv
Group of AT-6 Texan aircrafts, Flying Lions Aerobatic team goes REAL low! I don’t think can be lower then this. Guys did great show, highly recommended.

And some great pictures of the same event (click to enlarge):

Photography by Frans Dely/Aviationdimension.com

Two Tu-144 were sold as a heap of nonferrous scrap

Pavel — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:54:21 +0000

Right-click to download Two Tu-144 were sold video.
22,4 Mb, 2:46, 320 x 240, mp4
Vesti news program from “RTR” Russian TV channel reports: two Tu-144 airplanes, assigned to the Zhukovsky airbase, were sold to two private companies. Companies are going to cut them into pieces and resell as a nonferrous scrap (back to the state most possibly). One of the planes has already lost part of the aluminium facing under the wings.
Today it is still possible to buy out only on of two sold planes, but Zhukovsky city government has no budget for this, so it looks like nothing will be done about it.
Very strange question - how in general was possible to sell the state treasure to private companies. City government has no answer.
Reminding, Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim has bought and transferred one specimen of this type of plane in 2001, to the 20th anniversary of the museum. This museum thinks Tu-144 is “important chapter of aeronautic history” (see Tu-144 page of the online Museum Sinsheim). Tu-144 and Concord are the main showpieces of the museum, which are proudly being demonstrated to all the visitors.
While all over the world Tu-144 is considered to be masterpiece of art and huge amounts of money are being spent to buy and transfer it to the museum, in Russia it measures only by it’s metal weight.
One of these two planes is Tu-144LL reg 77114, famous flying laboratory, result of Russia and US united efforts - involved companies were: Tupolev design bureau, NASA, Boeing company (McDonnell Douglas) and Rockwell. This plane was made from Tu-144D, its upgrade cast $350 million dollars. It performed 19 flights, under control of both Russian and American test-pilots. During the flights it was reached maximum speed of 2.02 Mach and maximum altitude of 16887 meters. This tail set up 13 world records for the supersonic passenger aircrafts.
See some video materials here: Tu-144 landing video.
Today there is exact information about 8 aircrafts of Tu-144 series:
Tu-144C reg 77106 in Monino, Moscow
Tu-144C reg 77107 in Kazan
Tu-144C reg 77108 in Samara
Tu-144C reg 77109 in Voronezh
Tu-144C reg 77110 in Ulyanovsk
Tu-144D reg 77112 is in Museum Sinsheim, Germany.
Tu-144LL reg 77114 is in Zhukovsky
Tu-144D reg 77115 is in Zhukovsky

Tu-144 blueprints

Pavel — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:07:22 +0000

Click to download Tu-144 blueprints - some very nice blueprints of Tu-144 supersonic passenger jet plane.
6,8 Mb, 21 image, jpg, tiff, bmp
Didn’t use to pick some images up into the big one. But I think as is not bad too.

Tu-144 landing video

Pavel — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:18:06 +0000

Click to download Tu-144 landing video - amazing video. Just look how it jumps on landing!! And keep in mind, this birdy weights about 150 tons!
3,3 Mb, 1:15, 360 x 288, wmv

L-39

Pavel — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:17:01 +0000

L-39 jet-plane is used by Rus aerobatic team. All the miracles of aerobatic we can see from the land, Rus pilots are doing on this plane. A little bit old already, but still very manoeuvrable and useful. All the photos have been made by me personally, when I went to training base near the Moscow and flew this plane together with one of Rus pilots.

This plane was used for training purposes in the past. For sure, now pilots are using them too. But for today’s generation of fighters this plane already doesn’t fit, there are more modern training planes.

Rus aerobatic team is the only team that survived in the dark times of Russia in 90’s. And today we can enjoy their art. If you’ll recall that those planes has far not so powerful engine comparing with MiG-29 (Strizhi aerobatic team) and Su-27 (Russian knights), you’ll understand that it’s really sign of extremely high professionalism. Every mistake that pilot can do on MiG-29 can be fixed very fast because of big throttle and power reserve they have. L-39 pilots doesn’t have such ability, so they have to be extremely concentrated and careful flying tight formation and aerobatic. As a result we can see in the sky the beauty of flight.

You can experience all this beauty easily by ordering the flight tour at Incredible Adventures company. In addition, through this company you can order Mig-29 and Su-27 flights with any aerobatic program you want - from very smooth to the extreme ones.

Tu-144

Pavel — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 19:20:22 +0000

Tu-144, the first in the world passenger supersonic jet-plane. Airborne in 1968 with E.V.Elin test-pilot at the controls.
Crew: 3 people
Wing width: 28.80 meters
Plane length: 65.70 meters
Normal take-off weight: 150000 kg
Maximum speed: 2500 kmph (M=2.35)
Cruise speed: 2200 kmph
Flight length: 6500 km
Maximum altitude: 20000 meters
Usefull load: 150 passengers or 15000 kg of cargo.