Interesting piece of Soviet aviation history

Interesting article for aviation buffs on here.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ne-images-Soviet-era-flying-machine.html

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Don’t know as my ad blocker is on and I can view it.

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Better to just watch it here.

Thanks for the Utube link.....the Daily Mail $uck and blocks Ad Blockers!

Doesn't stop me. I'm using uBlock Origin.

Thanks a ton that was very interesting and informative.

It looks to be in rather good condition and interesting, so the "sea" must be mainly fresh water?

Neato!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm so this brings up the question did the "Spruce Goose" really "fly" or was it really just taking advantage of the "Ground Effects" (Vehicle) concept and riding on that cushion of air between the underside of the (small/narrow IMO) wings and the "sea" Seems the GEV reached about the same height as the Goose with about the same total wing area. Where's the mythbusters and that giant tread mill?

I have flown many airplanes in ground effects,(within one wing span of the surface) the air builds up under the front edges of the wings and hold it up above the ground, if you slow down a tiny bit it will land, if you make it accelerate a tiny bit it will gain altitude and break out of ground effects
The spruce goose never flew above ground effects, it was built mainly out of wood and it may have broken apart above ground effects, it wasn't design to fly very long as the proof of concept model

My grandfather was involved with the spuce goose.I think its a beautiful plane!And to me it got off the ground and flew.I understand the ground effects talk,but to me it got off the ground/water and flew,and it flew for 1 mile above the water.

On the ill named "Spruce Goose", It was quite an accomplishment IMO no matter what got it airborne, but I'm of the "water effect" camp, and I'm OK with that.

I have been inside the plane, its very impressive.

Lived it's whole life on the Caspian Sea--landlocked.

It's considered either a huge lake or small sea depending on who you ask. Salty, but less salty than the main ocean.

Also the northern part is very shallow--less than 10 feet deep.

it at first sounded like it was originally submerged, hence my question, and evidently not.

"The Lun-class ekranoplan, dubbed the 'Caspian Sea Monster', was discovered by the USA during the Cold War and dragged onto the beach in Derbent in July 2020."