Russian Monino Museum from the Air

Some serious plane spotters porn there!

Is that a DC2/3 that 's in "army" colours?

be interested in what that lifting body is looks to have a rocket on the back.

wish I knew Russian, gonna spend the next 2 hours abusing google translate...

Translated version here:

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fru-aviation.livejournal.com%2F2563678.html

Photo 16 includes the Tu-144 "Concordski"

That link is fabulous. I had wikipedia going steadily for a couple of hours refamiliarizing ...to shake the rust and cobwebs out.

Thanks.

Wow - what a treasure trove! Get them inside - they won't last long in that climate.

Thanks for the Russian planes site. I saw 3 airplanes that look suspiciously like

B-29, a B-24 and a DC-3 clones.

Yes, and also Douglas DB-7/A-20 Havoc and North American B-25, Mitchell. There are also some aircraft I have never seen covered before - perhaps prototypes that never went into service. There are 2 that look like the Russian equivalent of the F-111 and Britain's TSR-2.

Yep - it is close to a Douglas DC-3 - a Lisunov Li-2 "Cab", built under licence to the Douglas Aircraft Corp. The main difference is that it didn't have the Pratt & Whitney engines. There are a few aircraft with similar tales, although the clone B-29 came from reverse-engineering B-29s which came down behind the lines.

There is a plane-by-plane description of the museum collection which is very interesting here;

http://www.moninoaviation.com/ix.html

I wonder if that green and white VTOL cargo plane ever flew under load, quite a bit of drag from those monster rotors!

That was some truly righteous stuff! I wonder how those aircraft performed? I would love to know. Did you see the size of some of those helicopters on scale with the fixed wing aircraft? Huge! Many thanks for the post. Makes me want to book a holiday just to see and find out what these were all about. Very futuristic designs. But my guess is underpowered. An answer to the B-58 Hustler comes to mind. Awesome. Just awesome.

What a fabulous collection of aircraft. Having spent some time with the Combat Air Museum in Kansas, I am truly in awe of this collection. I only recognized a few meaning a lot of really fun research is in order when I get the time. Thanks for the great photos.