May 25th, 1968. The above film capture was taken from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Essex whilst on maneuvers in the Norwegian Sea. A Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 “buzzed” the carrier at extremely low altitude, before it eventually (and accidentally) clipped the water and crashed into the sea.
there were no survivors. the remains that were recovered were handed over to a Soviet destroyer..
video here
December 09, 2009, 9:41pm
a sky full of bombers
taken from a Norwegian Air Force F-104, sometime in the early 1970s. Norwegian aircraft would sometimes encounter formations of up to 30 Soviet aircraft (Tu-16s, in this case) on flights out to disrupt NATO shipping in the Atlantic or, in this case, on a mock attack mission against Norway itself..
December 09, 2009, 8:34pm
“USAF F-15 Eagle Fighters Intercept Two Soviet MiG-29 Fighters Going to Canada For the 1989 Abbotsford International Airshow, August 1, 1989, State of Alaska, USA”
December 09, 2009, 5:08pm
Beriev Be-6 being intercepted by an A-4 Skyhawk, somewhere/sometime during the Cold War..
December 03, 2009, 6:53pm
(North) Korean People’s Air Force pilots and aircraft (Shenyang J-5), date unknown
September 24, 2009, 4:42pm
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September 23, 2009, 11:09pm
read about the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine today?
if so, what better way to complement this than some amazing footage of the Domodedovo Air Show of the 9th July, 1967. Rivaling any of the massive May Day parades in Red Square - this was a massive public propaganda display from a secretive society, probably the greatest single display of Soviet air power, and a field day for Western intelligence - the high point for me being the flypast of a single, menacing, completely black Sukhoi Su-15 - (bottom-left in the picture)
the footage can be watched in five parts online, starting here, or can be downloaded here
September 23, 2009, 8:48pm
nobody died! friday #27: Carswell Air Force Base hit by a tornado, Sept 1st 1952
September 18, 2009, 7:23pm
based on the earlier KM/”Caspian Sea Monster” - and only slightly smaller - the Lun (Russian: “Hen Harrier”) ekranoplan was first launched in 1987. It is believed that the sole vessel entered service with the Soviet Navy’s Black Sea Fleet soon after.
It carried six launch containers for 3M80 Moskit ant-ship missiles on the top of it’s fuselage, and defensive armament taken from an Ilyushin Il-76M transport plane.
It was withdrawn from service sometime in the late 1990s, and can now be found here
September 10, 2009, 7:09pm
the Russian KM (korahbl’-maket - “mock-up/prototype ship”) - a giant wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) vehicle, designed by Rostislav Evgenievich Alexeev of the Central Hydrofoil Design Bureau.
First flown in 1966, and tested in the Caspian Sea. At over 90m in length, it was the largest flying vehicle in the world at the time. Detailed photographs did not reach the west until the early 1990s, but they already had a name for it - the Caspian Sea Monster
September 10, 2009, 3:09pm
the Kamov Ka-22 experimental transport aircraft, first flew in1959. In 1961, it broke several world records - payload-to-altitude still standing to this day.
The Ka-22 project was abandoned in 1964, after two fatal crashes.
August 18, 2009, 9:34pm
This image of a hypothetical Concorde nuclear bomber, carrying Blue Steel missiles, appeared in the 1968 Royal Air Force yearbook
August 11, 2009, 2:56pm
