One guy visited the Berlin Air Show 2014 in Germany last Saturday and noticed that some of the NATO countries are still equipped with Soviet planes and helicopters. He took a few photos to illustrate his story.
Full album is here: NATO Armies Still Use Soviet War Machines
Bruce Campbell is an inventive engineer who bought a retired Boeing 727 aircraft fuselage and upcycled it into an unusual and innovative home. The huge 3-engine commercial airliner is propped up on concrete pillars in a suburban wooded area outside of Portland, Oregon, and has its own driveway.
The aircraft features a makeshift shower, but he is still working to install a working lavatory and to restore some of the plane’s original interior elements, like seating and lights. Campbell lives in this plane 6 months every year, and spends the other part of the year in Japan, where he is also looking to buy and similarly re-use a retired Boeing 747 fuselage. The 10 acres where he’s building his Oregon home cost $23,000 when he bought them in his 20s, and the plane set him back $220,000.
Full album is here: Man Lives In A Boeing 727 In The Middle Of The Woods
As the author of the photos writes, this airfield was built in 1955. Its main purpose was to allow student-pilots to learn in the real life fighter jets. In 2009, all of the employees were sent to other airbases, even the guards so no guards were left on site and the place became a target for all sorts of visitors, including the ones who were just after scrap. We can still see what is left inside, thanks to the author.
Full album is here: Recently Abandoned Air Force Airfield Near Kamyshed
Sergei has visited an airbase in Lipetsk and taken photos of Russian jets preparing for fighting in “Air darts” drills. This time those are Su-25 and Su-24 attack bombers.
Full album is here: Lipetsk Airbase and Su-25 and Su-24 Planes
If helicopter guns can shoot all their ammo stock in just a few seconds, loading the ammo into them might take much more time. Here Dmitry Chuchkin has visited the airfield “Baltimor” to see how the Mi-28 and Ka-52 Russian copters are prepared before going to the drill. The story is inside. Don’t forget to click on the photos you like – they expand to widescreen ones.
Full album is here: Loading Ammo Into Helicopter
This is one of the sixteen ever built (as Wikipedia says). Fifteen of those had production numbers from 77101 to 77115. This particular plane was 77110. It has got 247 flight hours of which 116 hours were of supersonic flight. Since June 1st of 1984 this plane didn’t get up into skies, so today so to say its anniversary of thirty years total non-flying. Let’s see a few photos of it from 1984 till our times, you can see the year of the photo imprinted on the bottom of the photos, which were prepared by Valeri Timoffev.
Full album is here: One of Russian Tu-144 Supersonic Passenger Jets
This procedure trainer has been recently developed for training of pilots of a Su-35 fighter. Su-35 is a heavily modified Su-27, it belonged to generation 4++. The aircraft is intended for taking superior positions in the air and destruction of ground and surface targets.
Full album is here: Procedure Trainer of Su-35 Fighter
1960s – 1980s, Kharkov, Soviet Union. Photos of young Soviet future army pilots going through their daily routines: sleeping, physical training, getting their hands on the newest plane equipment, taking first test flights and more.
Full album is here: Young Soviet Pilots in Training
If there is a fire around but no fire trucks, then an MI-26 helicopter can bring you a fire truck on demand. As the author of the photos says, it takes less than two minutes to load the truck into the helicopter. He says those MI-26′s can carry a payload of up to 20 tons and the crew of each is six people. Also, the engines of the beast are rated at 11,400 horse power. The fire truck goes inside fully loaded with water in its tank, so if there is a fire somewhere where no trucks are available, they can be delivered in minutes right to the place.
Full album is here: Shipping Loaded Fire Trucks Where Needed
Soviet Union always loved everything big. So the decision to make the biggest helicopter with the largest carrying capacity was quite natural for the country.
Development of the V-12 project began in 1963, the serial Mi-6 helicopter became the basis for the new huge vehicle. To simplify the task the engineers just decided to double propelling plants. What they got was a “heaven monster” with four gas-turbine engines, 6497 hp each!
Full album is here: Mi 12: Real giant of helicopter engineering
A few facts about MI-28 Russian helicopter.
After the war of Afghanistan there was clear that Soviet army needs a new helicopter to come replace the MI-24 used at times. In 1982 the Mile bureau introduced the new helicopter – MI-28, which was equal to the newly adopted “Apache” helicopters of USA and superseding the existing Soviet MI-24 copters. This was the most armored helicopter in the world. It couldn’t be shot down from the ground with the help of just handheld fire arms.
In 1984 the machine went into series.
Full album is here: Russian Helicopter Mi-28
“Night hunters”, “Alligators”, “Crocs”: all those and more are the names of Russian helicopters – Mi-28H, Ka-52, Mi-24/Mi-35 respectively that arrive to Russian shooting range “Pogonovo” to participate in “Avia – darts 2014″ – a contest among the military pilots”.
Full album is here: Night Hunters and Alligators Prepare for Aviadarts
UTA Flight 772 was a scheduled flight operating from Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo to Paris CDG airport in France.
Full story is here: A Story About UTA Flight 772
Mi-4 (“Hound” according to the NATO classification) is a Soviet multi-purpose helicopter designed by the experimental design bureau named after M. L. Mil’ in the early 1950s. Mi-4 was the first combat-transport helicopter of the Soviet armed forces. It has the same components as those of an American Sikorsky S-55, but its carrying capacity is twice heavier.
Full album is here: Helicopter Mi-4 – First Combat-Transport Helicopter Of The Soviet Armed Forces
Some pictures from Pulkovo airport in Saint-Petersburg where a new terminal is being tested.
Full album is here: Great Pictures In The Airport PULKOVO In Saint-Petersburg
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