MORE random pics......

[svandamme]

[Flieger]

Originally Posted by svandamme

Not the same plane...

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by Flieger

Not the same plane...

oh and you forgot to post a pic

i'll post 2 to compensate for your lack of commitment

[GH85Carrera]

[widebody911]

[F150 FX4]

Originally Posted by Flieger

Not the same plane...

I think he knew that. It was a Russian effort to copy the US version. They often did this.

[sammyg2]

Russia's problem is that they sent their best designers to prison or just killed them, and they only allowed the politically connected to design aircraft. And even those designers could only design what the politicians allowed them to design.
That's why they routinely ended up with sheety designs like that POS that flew just on top of the waves and that's what happens when free market competition is interfered with.

They copied the B-52, piece by piece. FAIL.
They copied the F-14, FAIL.
They copied the space shuttle from our own stolen plans, FAIL.
They copied the concord, FAIL.

That my friends is the difference between the private and public sectors.

[sammyg2]

[cashflyer]

[GH85Carrera]

That looks cold!

[GH85Carrera]

[GH85Carrera]

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

They copied the B-52, piece by piece. FAIL.

i presume you mean the B29 they literally copied as the TU-4?

[Nostril Cheese]

Sammy is one of those guys who thinks Red Dawn was a documentary.

[Captain Ahab Jr]

I think I know exactly where this photo was taken and I reckon its the B&Q DIY shop carpark in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England (the fat chick in the black leggings gave it away)

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by svandamme

i presume you mean the B29 they literally copied as the TU-4?

[kach22i]

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by Nostril Cheese

Sammy is one of those guys who thinks Red Dawn was a documentary.

No I do not, but I have ready a couple of books on that subject and watched even more documentaries that precisely support the claims I made in that post as accurate. I can dig up and present documentation to confirm those statements.

If there is something in that post that you disagree with and can provide substance to support your position, lets hear it.

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

They copied the B-52, piece by piece. FAIL.
They copied the F-14, FAIL.
They copied the space shuttle from our own stolen plans, FAIL.
They copied the concord, FAIL.

I've never seen that XB-70 knock-off before, really interesting.

Forgot the B-1 knock-off..............................TU-160 BlackJack Strategic bomber

TU-160 BlackJack Strategic bomber | Russian Military Analysis

[sammyg2]

This is a picture of the soviet union's most famous, most decorated, most respected aircraft designer of all time, Adrei Tupolev. he's the guy who reverse-engineered the B-29 but never quite got it right, especially the engines which were reported to be under-powered and prone to failure:



and a little except from his career:

However, on October 21, 1937, Tupolev was arrested together with Vladimir Petlyakov and the entire directorate of the TsAGI and EDO on trumped up charges of sabotage, espionage and of aiding the Russian Fascist Party. Many of his colleagues were executed.
In 1939, Tupolev was moved from a prison to an NKVD sharashka for aircraft designers in Bolshevo near Moscow, where many ex-TsAGI people had already been sent to work. The sharashka soon moved to Moscow and was dubbed "Tupolevka" after its most eminent inmate. Tupolev was tried and convicted in 1940 with a ten-year sentence. During this time he developed the Tupolev Tu-2,[4] He was released in 1944 "to conduct important defence work." (He was not rehabilitated fully until two years after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953.)
Tupolev headed the major project of reverse engineering the American Boeing B-29 strategic bomber, which was the world's first nuclear delivery platform. The USSR had repeatedly asked unsuccessfully for lend-lease B-29s. Using three machines which landed in Siberia after bombing Japan in 1945.