The cavity for forepart chassis retraction
Main gear
The cavity for its retraction
Side gear
The left one
The right one
Looks fragile
Cavity for their retraction
Ekranoplan layout
The tail hatch
The bottom view from the rear
Cavities in the pontoons
The hatch inside of the pontoon
The hole in the left tail-end
Main engines frame
Lift engines frame
Left main wing
Ports inside
Empennage
Another one
The results of VVA-14 tests gave a huge experience and important data that were further used for the development of the largest amphibian A-40 “Albatros”.
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Starwars hypothetical spaceship design is now real ! Long life too the Millennium Falcon brother !
And many thanks to you, at englishrussia, for all that nice pics…
Cool concept for aircraft. Very cool pictures. Thanks for the upload…
Never does man show greater ingenuity than in devising more efficient ways of killing his fellow man.
Yeah, but did it every fly?
It is a pity that not a single effort by the museum to restore the plane even to the modest degree.
It is a fantastic design with an unfortunate end.
And is not an ekranoplan but yes, it uses the WIG effect.
Cool so cool, but that kind of plane should not end like that. I see pictures before of VVA-14 but never so close thanks. That end is unfair I insist.
I wish I could do something to restore it.
Where is Luke and R2?
If they’re here, they’re proudly wearing red stars.
Then they must be with the empire!All hope is lost!
It’s boat, not a plane.
That amazing.
I wonder how much money have this people spent for this!!!
I’d pay to have one. It would be great for fishing.
This is not antique aircraft. It is Aeroflot awaiting departure this day from Monino to St. Petersburg.
ROOOOOOOOOFL!!!!!!!!
Looks like the wings on that thing were VERY small compared to the rest of the plane.
That’s the idea, it’s a ground effect machine (ekranoplan) ie. it takes advantage of the increased lift you get when flying sufficiently close to the surface, so it only needs small wings. Check out the other ekranoplan pages on this site.
Looks like a Firefly spacecraft.
Don’t be fool… it’s not a plane!
yea this is a nice aircraft mates
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAk3kwXfEWk
That’s one of the most bizarre looking planes I’ve ever seen! How much of this cool stuff does Russia have? When America has tested so many “top secret aircraft” over the years, it really makes you wonder what kind of stuff the Russians have been looking into also!
Yes it is a plane, and yes apparently it did fly. Better images of the original with the wings on. http://www.testpilot.ru/russia/bartini/vva/vva_e.htm
I love that…. Get a load of old planes, leave them in a field to rot….and then call it a “Museum” Dear God…
So you have been to the Pima Air Museum in Arizona as well.
Very strange bird, i hope the staff of Monino Museum could get all the parts together and restore it for exhibition.
Great pictures.
Regards from Argentina.
Weird!
There Is no one here beside me that know exactly what that plane is ???
Actually here The Aircraft has been cut in piece ‘cuz the wing are not there
It’s more called a WIG (Wing In Ground-effect)
A WIG boat is a boat with wings that cruises just above the water surface, it is floating on a cushion of relatively high-pressure air between its wing and the water surface. This cushion is created by the aerodynamic interaction between the wing and the surface, called ground effect. This is where a WIG boat is different from an aircraft, it cannot operate without ground effect, so its operating height is limited relative to its size
As You Escaped with Snake And Eva in The Metal Gear Solid 3 Opus on Playstation 2 your in a WIG
This is exactly a complete version of the VVA-14
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_hVOW2U7K4-M/SiO0X5yN2eI/AAAAAAABCGo/1CBRFDYvWHc/s640/17.jpg
http://www.testpilot.ru/russia/bartini/vva/vva_e.htm
Still, by design the VVA could and did perform high-altitude flights, which makes it so much cooler than other Soviet WIGs
You shoulda shown a diagram of it with the wings attached, otherwise it just looks confusing!!
i don’t think Air Force Museum would do such a careless maintenance..
i don’t think that it could ever fly, too big and without an aerodynamic design
yeah, they just slapped it together for kicks after a bong or two. It was 60s after all. The designer even died in the process, that being so funny and all
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It looks like something out of star wars or perhaps a new Japanese model futuristic car design
It’s not a plane, it’s a high speed boat.