Monsterrrrr....

"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond) 06/15/2014 at 22:17 • Filed to: planelopnik

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Blondude > Grindintosecond 06/15/2014 at 22:27

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Dat ekranoplan

theloudmouth > Grindintosecond 06/15/2014 at 22:27

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I'm going to guess Soviet.... Or Disney.

Could honestly be either.

Grindintosecond > theloudmouth 06/15/2014 at 22:31

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lol.

The final expression of the Soviet Ekranoplan project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_ef…

the bigger it gets, the more efficient and more weight it can lift.

phenotyp > Grindintosecond 06/15/2014 at 22:34

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That's an amazingly cool shot.

theloudmouth > Grindintosecond 06/15/2014 at 22:43

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I've always wondered, if they'd had the resources of the U.S., would they still have built such ridiculous(ly awesome) contraptions?

Grindintosecond > theloudmouth 06/15/2014 at 22:51

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from wikipedia on the designer: After the crash of the KM, Soviet military heads used the incident as an excuse to remove Alexeev from the ekranoplan projects. He spent the rest of his life away from scientific work, concentrating mostly on sports. He died in 1980.

After the fall of the Soviet Union , the details of Alexeev's work became known to the public and generated a lot of interest from around the world. He is now generally considered as the father of ground effect vehicle design. Several documentaries have shown details of his work (including the KM), most recently on Russia Today channel on March 13, 2007

So.....They pulled him from the project after the crash and as the father of the whole thing, I think it would have reached a mediocre level of BS like any of their other projects that looked cool but built with iron and vodka.