We have already seen the exterior of ekranoplans and today we are going to see the stuff never published before – the inside view of ekranoplans.
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The entry
A huge knight for various floatation devices
Fire-extinguishing means
Personal floating devices
The view out of the window at the dock
Further to the forebody we can meet a latrine
A cabin of the crew
A galley at the portside
500 liters of drinking water
Equipment room
Close to the forebody, here must be a small anchor
Radar in the forebody
All the equipment meet the sea standards, weight, dimensions
The crew cab
Captain’s station
General view of the radar
The workplace of the second pilot
Switches
Footplate
Such devices are used for air drying along all the windows in the cab
Devices along the starboard
The upper central board
Devices on the central board
Alarm system
Engines control members
Upper board
Workplace of a flight engineer
Another workplace
Cockpit
A hatch to climb on the roof
Pay attention to the alarm system of the ship type
Going to the stern we can see various devices
Fire-fighting system
Inside
Some test recording apparatus
Gunner’s place
The rope for the case of emergency
Going further to the stern
A hose for firefighting?
A manhole leading to horizontal fins of the tail and the radars
The gunner’s cabin
The rear cabin of the gunner
The manhole – viewing from above
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Strange machine the ekranoplane… but each time that you show a little more about it, i like it each time more…
Greetings from Argentina!!!
BTW, first!!!! (I hate those claims)
Ademas esta bastante bien conservado, se ve que lo estan cuidando… sino ya estaria saqueado como es costumbre.
Vnutri kak novyj i jeto zdorovo!
I love the ekranoplan concept. But as with most of your technology picture tours, I wish you’d translate some of the control panel labels.
Seriously, Print out the russian alphabet and do it by yourself, a lot of words a similar to german or english or frech. My friend tought himself the russian alphabet within 2 hours. i also learnd it like that)) And its great because you will be able to read Ukranian, Belarussian, serbian, etc… too! And Russian is a great language to learn)) Good luck!
More Ekronoplan please! These machines are awesome! This one looks like it is pretty well preserved, I wonder if it could ever fly again?
yes it could. i think someone is working on it right now
now that we have seen the outside and the inside, let’s expect it to have a small flight , no?
Wawawoowa, is very nice.
I take it back, Russians are capable of something.
Why is it in such good condition, is an oligarch making it flight worthy???
This would be a great device to travel in. I wonder how hard it would be to manufacture a consumer verions.
Love those rudimentary horizon gyros. Huge with very basic display. Given that you’re not getting a lot of altitude, it shows only 0-15 degrees bank, no 30 and 45 degree markers.
Great photos !
-http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/SCC030a.htm
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Wow !! great pictures , its just amazing what they could build with the available technology of that time
One thing leaves me puzzled. I notice that much of the inside of the ekranoplan is padded. Is there a reason for this? All I can think of is that flying in one of them must have been a bumpy ride and that it’s there for the protection of the flight crew- either that or insulation.
Very simple reason. Pilot and technical aircrew are important people, not easily replaceable if sick or injured.
Very easy for comrade banging of head on roof so roof padded. But yes, very bumpy ride in transition to and from W.I.G.E. flight. Notice padded sacks below recording instruments in some photographs, also very simple, very effective.
These machines are awesome and wonderful! Belong to this: http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010/03/12/ekranoplan/
Sorry my English..
Both i guess, but my guess is that also is for reducing noise/vibration insulation.
No kidding, if i´ve gor heck a LOT of money i will build further on this concept but constructing a huge space vehicle to travel further into the space, guess i´m not alone thinking of that while wotching tohse wonderful pictures.
Well Well It´s a real geeks rigt to hawe dreams i hope…
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sou uma profundo adimirador dos ecranoplanos e vinha buscando essas imagens de dentro a bastante tempo, gostaria de lhe agradecer muito por que sou apaixonado por essas maquinas incriveis, você fez um grande e exelente trabalho pena que o ecranoplano k m afundou seria muito bom ver imagens internas de também.valeu mesmo.
not stolen or looted yet? lets hope there is some money to put it in museum.