Do you know what this is?

[_Zorro_]

Wait for the pictures to load [^]

[Henry Minute]

Yes. It's a 'ground effect' plane. See here[^]. and here[^]. and here[^].

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[Maximilien]

Yep, I think I've seen old film about that "flying" boat. quite crazy.

Watched code never compiles.

[_Zorro_]

Wow, that's impressive. Thanks

[Luc Pattyn]

you could feed the russian text to Google Translate; the result isn't great, however it seems good enough to understand what this is all about. :)

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[NormDroid]

Don't fancy flying in this beast. Can't see Manchester Airport allowing this baby to land. :)

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[PIEBALDconsult]

Just let them try stopping it.

[Bergholt Stuttley Johnson]

its an ekranoplans sometimes called Caspian Sea monsters - a series of huge ground effect aircraft built by the soviets, they flew fast a few feet about the ground but fell out favour with the powers that held the purse strings http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/22/caspian_sea_monster/[^]

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[Abhinav S]

Don't tell me aliens left this behind and we've found it now?

[Steve Mayfield]

It looks like a Spruce Moose - the Russian response to Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose :rolleyes:

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