Tons of Buran stuff

I'm still digging around through this immense Russian language Buran
site, but there are tons of good links on this page to _very_ detailed
drawings and photos of the Buran Shuttle and Energia booster components:
http://www.buran.ru/htm/mapsite.htm
Start with the link next to the drawing of the Energia/Buran stack
ascending, about a sixth of the way down the page, and work down from
there. There are a lot of pages on just about everything about the
spacecraft, down to details of its mechanical arm and landing gear. Pity
whoever had to do the drawing of every individual tile's position on the
orbiter. Many of the pages have tons of links to other pages so this can
keep you busy for many hours. Check all the images to see if they are
linked to things- as many are, but don't say so.
One of many impressive things is on this page:
http://www.buran.ru/htm/kompon.htm
....hit the "zoom in" button on the cutaway 3/4 view of the Buran with
the red numbers on it that is located halfway down the page. The numbers
are noted on the bottom of the page that will come up, and are linked to
webpages on all the spacecraft's details, with photos, drawings, and
animations of how that part is designed and works. Then hit it again on
the two images that are on it. These will come up as very large and
detailed images of the spacecraft's interior design; one in black in
white, the other in color.
I wish NASA had something like this for the Shuttle
There are a lot more photos starting on this other page also:
http://www.buran.ru/htm/foto.htm

Pat

Is it my imagination or has this site been sizably enlarged in the last
year or so? Been quite a while since a I actually been through its.
But I don't recall the higher quality photos and large file sizes. In
any case I have my work cut out for me this weekend, The garage will
have to wait! Rich Pat Flannery wrote:
I'm still digging around through this immense Russian language Buran
site, but there are tons of good links on this page to _very_
detailed
drawings and photos of the Buran Shuttle and Energia booster
components:
http://www.buran.ru/htm/mapsite.htm
Start with the link next to the drawing of the Energia/Buran stack
ascending, about a sixth of the way down the page, and work down from

there. There are a lot of pages on just about everything about the
spacecraft, down to details of its mechanical arm and landing gear.
Pity
whoever had to do the drawing of every individual tile's position on
the
orbiter. Many of the pages have tons of links to other pages so this
can
keep you busy for many hours. Check all the images to see if they are

linked to things- as many are, but don't say so.
One of many impressive things is on this page:
http://www.buran.ru/htm/kompon.htm
...hit the "zoom in" button on the cutaway 3/4 view of the Buran with

the red numbers on it that is located halfway down the page. The
numbers
are noted on the bottom of the page that will come up, and are linked
to
webpages on all the spacecraft's details, with photos, drawings, and
animations of how that part is designed and works. Then hit it again
on
the two images that are on it. These will come up as very large and
detailed images of the spacecraft's interior design; one in black in
white, the other in color.
I wish NASA had something like this for the Shuttle
There are a lot more photos starting on this other page also:
http://www.buran.ru/htm/foto.htm

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:
http://www.buran.ru/htm/kompon.htm
...hit the "zoom in" button on the cutaway 3/4 view of the Buran with
the red numbers on it that is located halfway down the page. The numbers
are noted on the bottom of the page that will come up, and are linked to
webpages on all the spacecraft's details, with photos, drawings, and
animations of how that part is designed and works. Then hit it again on
the two images that are on it. These will come up as very large and
detailed images of the spacecraft's interior design; one in black in
white, the other in color.
I wish NASA had something like this for the Shuttle
There are a lot more photos starting on this other page also:
http://www.buran.ru/htm/foto.htm

Pat



OK, this has probably been asked-and-answered before, but what was the
"BTS-002 variant" with the aircraft turbofan engines?

wrote:
Is it my imagination or has this site been sizably enlarged in the
last
year or so?
Yes, it seems like they keep adding material.

I wonder if anyone here has purchased their CDROM set:
http://www.buran.ru/htm/cd-rom.htm

Reviews ?

wrote:

Is it my imagination or has this site been sizably enlarged in the last
year or so? Been quite a while since a I actually been through its.
But I don't recall the higher quality photos and large file sizes. In
any case I have my work cut out for me this weekend, The garage will
have to wait! Rich


They have that book and CDs out on the website material now, and I think
that encouraged them to vastly expand it; I haven't been through
anywhere near all of it yet, but the thing appears to be _huge_ compared
to what it used to be; unfortunatly, only a small section is translated
into English yet, and the English versions of the webpages are much
truncated versions of the ones in Russian with only around 1/3 to 1/2
the pictures and videos that the Russian ones have.
They must have several hundred photos and drawings of differnt parts of
Buran alone, not even including the other stuff.

Pat

In article ,
says...

OK, this has probably been asked-and-answered before, but what was the
"BTS-002 variant" with the aircraft turbofan engines?


It was the Soviet equiv. of Enterprise - used for apporach and landing
tests, pilot training etc. The big difference was that it could take off
under its own power rather than ride a 747 up.
Years later after the Buran project was canned, the BTS-002 was sold
off, investors took it to Sydney Australia as an exhibition in 2000
(think it flopped financially) then it was shipped to the middle east
via Singapore. Last year some Germans found it dumped in the desert in
one of the Gulf countries (Oman?) and have purchased it for a European
museum..so its been a well travelled bird.

K

Everyone wrote:


OK, this has probably been asked-and-answered before, but what was the
"BTS-002 variant" with the aircraft turbofan engines?

Originally, Buran (just like our Shuttle) was designed to have a pair of
jet engines to aid its crossrange landing ability, as well as allow it
to make a second landing approach if it botched it's initial landing
attempt- on Buran they were mounted in pods on either side of the
vertical fins that had flip-down doors over the intakes the shield the
intakes during takeoff and reentry. The original plan was to carry the
Buran aloft on the back of a modified twin finned "Bison" bomber (the
Soviet equivalent of our B-52), and do drop tests with it like we did
with our Enterprise/747 combo. The finished orbiter apparently was too
heavy for this to work in a flyable form (the pictures of it on top of
the Bison with its vertical fin removed are downright hilarious:
http://www.buran.ru/htm/3m.htm ) so the Soviets decided to add a further
motor to each side of the Buran's fuselage for the low speed flight
tests, and operate it from a Runway like a conventional aircraft for its
flight tests. Just like we had already discovered with our lifting body
program, it was a lot easier to do an unpowered descent to landing than
anyone thought it would be- and so the planned topside motors were
removed from the finished Buran design, which upped its cargo capacity.
The two side mounted motors were never intended for operational use on
the finished space-flying design, but were only for the low speed flight
tests. Still this gave them a lot more flying time experience than we
ever got out of our 747 glide drops.

Pat

Pat Flannery :


wrote:

Is it my imagination or has this site been sizably enlarged in the last
year or so? Been quite a while since a I actually been through its.
But I don't recall the higher quality photos and large file sizes. In
any case I have my work cut out for me this weekend, The garage will
have to wait! Rich


They have that book and CDs out on the website material now, and I think
that encouraged them to vastly expand it; I haven't been through
anywhere near all of it yet, but the thing appears to be _huge_ compared
to what it used to be; unfortunatly, only a small section is translated
into English yet, and the English versions of the webpages are much
truncated versions of the ones in Russian with only around 1/3 to 1/2
the pictures and videos that the Russian ones have.
They must have several hundred photos and drawings of differnt parts of
Buran alone, not even including the other stuff.

It is at times like these I wish I had a time machine.

Printout the pictures and then arrange a mail drop from Washinton DC to the
Soviet Space agency.

If the post is intersected FUN FUN FUN.

IF it makes it to Russia LOTS of FUN, LOTS of FUN, LOTS of FUN.

Earl Colby Pottinger

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