Russian Monino museum from the air

[stukiwi]

Looks like someone flew pretty low over the museum to get these they are pretty cool although it would be nice to see some of these aircraft inside a building.
ru-aviation.livejournal.com/2563678.html

[Dave Homewood]

Yes those shots are neat.

[No longer identifiable]

Stu, thanks for posting this. Not so many years ago we would never have been allowed to see this stuff.

I particularly like the big cold-war jet bombers, with their futuristic-looking swept wings - especially the one with the wingtips that almost seem to touch the ground. They seem more like something out of a science-fiction book when compared to western aircraft of the same era (or is it that we have just become used to seeing western aircraft?).

[AussieBob]

Here is a plane-by-plane description of the collection.

www.moninoaviation.com/ix.html

And now I know why that one looks like a DC-3, because it was a DC-3, made under licence to the Douglas Aircraft Corp, but with different (Russian) engines. And the B-29 equivalent which was reverse-engineered from the few captured ones.

[No longer identifiable]

Bob, I looked at every aircraft on that museum web site, and noticed that the one aircrafty that I think looks really cool is not even mentioned or pictured (obviously still top-secret ;D). The aircraft is the Myasishchev 3MD (the updated version of the original M4), seen below in all it's cold-war lethal glory.



Apparently about the same vintage as the Boeing B47 and both utilised the German research on swept wings.

[FlyingKiwi]

The M-50 is my favourite!