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A tour group just returned from Baykonur with great photos
DA wrote: tml. It actually says "Buran prototype" and it's hard to say how close it is to the real thing. Some parts of its hardware are definitely not flight worthy, such as those ugly stand-offs on the back. http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/c...s/Img_018.html I wonder what those are about? That's where the RCS housings were in the flight article. The center box almost looks like a drag chute housing. Buran could be carried around (minus its vertical fin) with a aerodynamic fairing over the tail by the "Atlant" carrier aircraft: http://www.buran.ru/images/gif/atlant3.gif Those units might be where the fairing was attached. Pat |
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Skylon wrote: Wow. That cockpit looks familiar... Here's one in more detail: http://www.buran.ru/htm/soi.htm Pat |
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A tour group just returned from Baykonur with great photos
Jim Oberg wrote: It's where a new roof sill is under construction. "Ed Kyle" wrote Look at the right roof edge, where it's being repaired: http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/c...es/Img_061.jpg Interesting. But why? - Ed Kyle Right. But why are they rebuilding it? This building was not in use when the roof collapsed, was it? - Ed Kyle |
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On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:01:31 -0500, Ed Kyle wrote
(in article .com): Jim Oberg wrote: It's where a new roof sill is under construction. "Ed Kyle" wrote Look at the right roof edge, where it's being repaired: http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/c...ery_089/images /Img_061.jpg Interesting. But why? - Ed Kyle Right. But why are they rebuilding it? This building was not in use when the roof collapsed, was it? - Ed Kyle Maybe they plan on restoring/rebuilding and displaying one of the various prototype and test articles laying around and want to house it there. -- Herb "Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs." ~Anonymous |
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A tour group just returned from Baykonur with great photos
"Pat Flannery" wrote in message ... Skylon wrote: Wow. That cockpit looks familiar... Here's one in more detail: http://www.buran.ru/htm/soi.htm The overall layout may appear similar, but the details are all different. I pulled my shuttle cockpit photo off the wall and held it in my hand while looking at the close ups of the Buran. Aside from the placement of the three CRT's, the details of the control panel are completely different. Check out the US shuttle cockpit he http://www.spaceevent.com/images/des...le_cockpit.jpg Note the use of many dial type gauges in the Soviet version where the US version has many linear type gauges. Jeff -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919) |
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Jeff Findley wrote: ferent. Check out the US shuttle cockpit he http://www.spaceevent.com/images/des...le_cockpit.jpg Note the use of many dial type gauges in the Soviet version where the US version has many linear type gauges. Here's an equivalent shot of the Buran cockpit: http://www.buran.ru/images/jpg/end7.jpg Buran looks more like the interior of a military aircraft, ours more like the interior of a Apollo spacecraft. Buran also appears to have moved most of the circuit breaker switches off of the ceiling and put them above the control panel and on the cockpit sidewalls: http://www.buran.ru/images/jpg/end21.jpg While they were busy not copying the Shuttle, they were also busy not copying certain Shuttle subsystems: http://www.buran.ru/htm/bighand.htm One almost expects to see "Kanada" on it, doesn't one? :-D Pat |
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A tour group just returned from Baykonur with great photos
"Skylon" wrote:
Jim Oberg wrote: A tour group just returned from Baykonur with some routine launch pad (and Nedelin disaster site) photographs, plus some great new view INSIDE the outdoor-parked Buran. See http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/c...089/index.html. Wow. That cockpit looks familiar... There's only so many ways you can design a cockpit. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL |
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A tour group just returned from Baykonur with great photos
Jeff Findley wrote: "Pat Flannery" wrote in message ... Skylon wrote: Wow. That cockpit looks familiar... Here's one in more detail: http://www.buran.ru/htm/soi.htm The overall layout may appear similar, but the details are all different. I pulled my shuttle cockpit photo off the wall and held it in my hand while looking at the close ups of the Buran. Aside from the placement of the three CRT's, the details of the control panel are completely different. Check out the US shuttle cockpit he http://www.spaceevent.com/images/des...le_cockpit.jpg Note the use of many dial type gauges in the Soviet version where the US version has many linear type gauges. Jeff -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919) I stand corrected. The stripped down one mainly looked a lot like shuttle's cockpit because of the locations for the three CRT's. Based on the photos of the fully equipped cockpit though, it is a good deal different. Thanks for posting the pics! -A.L. |
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