Not your father's Rotodyne.
Mil Mi-12 "Homer". Labels: aviation, youtube
posted 5:22 PM
Ekranoplan test-drive. (unfortunately not the
Caspian Sea Monster of the headline, but cool nonetheless)
Labels: aviation, ekranoplan
posted 11:08 AM
We were watching
Goldfinger yesterday, and were puzzling over the scene in which Goldfinger's car gets loaded into a plane, from the front. Turns out the plane in question was the
Aviation Traders Carvair.
Update: One of the two airworthy examples of this aircraft remaining
crashed earlier this year.
You can watch a video of this plane in happier times
here.
Labels: aviation
posted 11:50 AM
More lifting body pr0n: Grant sends
this, which contains a clip of
this in action. Looks to me like the Horton is behaving as an
ekranoplan there, I must see if there's footage of it flying a bit higher.
Labels: aviation
posted 6:07 PM
