In our recent publications we told about graveyards of abandoned Soviet military aircraft.
But it is necessary to notice, that not all of the old vehicles have shared such fate. Some of them are still used as monuments of Russian aircraft, and one can discover them in different parts of Russia.
Also see:
Abandoned Russian Military Aircrafts
Some other Abandoned Military Planes
If these monuments were in the west they would be destroyed by vandals.
Russ:
Regarding Western vandals, nonsense.
Check out this list for yourself & see how many have been vandalized.
http://www.coastcomp.com/av/pres/index.htm
yes, i live in argentina and tank and plane monuments are vandalized. i don´t think in usa they would vandalize them
the monuments’d most likely to get some graffitti. destroyed? maybe. depending on what area they resides.
Pride.
Is the last one the Mi-17 ??
mil mi 24
в Смоленске на Багратиона пассажирский самолёт стоит.
Weather destroys displayed aircraft before vandals do any serious damage. This is true all over the world. Smashed windows and stolen instruments can be replaced. The damage caused by metal corrosion isn’t so easy to fix.
Russians are good at many things, but aircraft preservation is not one of them. The Russian aircraft museums I’ve seen are glorified junkyards filled with rusty shells that are coated with many layers of paint.
Airplanes are very delicate. Letting them rot outside is just as bad as burning them in a fire. It just takes longer.
The aircraft shown in these particular pictures look more well taken care of than the aircraft you find around military base gates and such, in the u.s..
Yes, they do look good. But painting the outside of an aircraft does very little to preserve the structure or the interior. Just because something looks good from 30 meters away does not mean it is OK inside.
I think it matters which one. The Mi-4 and a couple others look positively deteriorated, whereas the Mi-2 looks fantastic. Myself i’ve seen both nicely and poorly preserved ones. If you look at old Soviet photos, they all look awesome. Its just by now they are VERY old and the new Nazi Regime of Putin doesn’t take care of them like the Reds used to.
Hey does anyone know exactly where the Il-2 is located?
il-2 is in Voronezh
Last picture – here?
Another one, as this
I ment the WWII era plane, its the second to last photo, the one with the propeller
http://www.military.cz/russia/air/helicopters/Mi_24/mi24_a.jpg
The second last one is a Hind-B
This is a very interesting page, many fantastic pics. Thanks for posting.
I have a feature on my site which I call the Locator. See…
http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/Locator.php
It allows the user to search for aviation museums and other sites like planes and helicopters on poles (as with the pictures posted here), and then provides map links so the user can physically find the plane. If anyone can help provide locations for the aircraft in these pictures I would very much appreciate it. I have not had a chance to research aircraft location in Europe, especially Russia. Credit would certainly be provided to the contributors in the credits section.
I can be contacted by my Hotmail address mrhenniger@hotmail.com, or via my website contact page (preferred)…
http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/Contact.php
Regards,
Mike
pic one, intercom recording
winchman: your tail is clear, height is good. 20metres, still clear, 15 metres, forward one and left, 10 metres
winchman:oops
gawd, ya’ll build ugly aircraft…
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Thanx for the valuable information. This was just the thing I was looking for, I really like how it includes the actual curved shape flight paths. keep posting. Will be visiting back soon.
Is there any way to use teflon coatings in a domestic situation?
http://www.elitetecnologica.com/2010/05/fotografo-thierry-legault-tira-fotos-do.html
Obrigado pela informação valiosa. Esta foi apenas a coisa que eu estava procurando, eu realmente gosto de como ele inclui rotas de voo a forma real curvas. manter a postagem. Estará visitando novamente em breve.
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