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Bush Tucker Man:
Tonight
BBC2
21:00 - 22:00
This looks like an eminantly watchable series, much in the style of his '20th Century' offering last year.
The first episode appears to deal with 'Ekranoplanes', the once Top-Secret Russian creation dubbed the 'Caspian Sea Monster'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dtl3f
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7638659.stm
Disco Matt:
That little Ekranoplan was neat, but not a patch on the huge jet "Caspian sea monster".
There's just something terribly endearing about them with the engines on pods above the cockpit. They look like escapees from a Gerry Anderson series.
Bush Tucker Man:
--- Quote from: Disco Matt on September 28, 2008, 23:20:17 ---That little Ekranoplan was neat, but not a patch on the huge jet "Caspian sea monster".
There's just something terribly endearing about them with the engines on pods above the cockpit. They look like escapees from a Gerry Anderson series.
--- End quote ---
That's just what I thought when I first heard of them quite a few years ago.
The 'CSM' is just huge & carries a heck of a payload
Looks like Robots are one of next weeks topics
http://open2.net/jamesmay/come_fly_with_me.html
Disco Matt:
Unfortunately the original KM "CSM" version was destroyed in a crash in the 1980s after the pilot attempted to take off without full power being available, the craft broke up during salvage attempts. They seem to be down to a handful of the Orlyonuk type, a lone Lun-class, and a few of the tiny ones seen in the programme.
http://www.se-technology.com/wig/index.php has more on them
Boddle:
Thanks for the web link something I have been interested in since I was in Germany where a house mate brought a video about them over from england.
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