A tour group just returned from Baykonur with great photos

Jim Oberg wrote:


As for 'Train', say it all you want, there's no RR right-of-way
could handle something that size for more than a few hundred miles,
if that much, before running into immovable structures.



I'll bet they took it their semi-disassembled on the back of the Atlant.

Pat

I'll get to these, but not in the near future. Thanks!



"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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This leaves the question if they ever did glide tests with a Buran prior
to the first flight.
Your Russian is better than mine; so have fun:
http://www.buran.ru/htm/hrono.htm
http://www.buran.ru/htm/sydney.htm
http://www.buran.ru/htm/vrdu.htm
http://www.buran.ru/htm/anabst2.htm
http://www.buran.ru/htm/anabst.htm
http://www.buran.ru/htm/bstend.htm

Pat

Jim Oberg wrote:

I'll get to these, but not in the near future. Thanks!





That's pretty much everything regarding the jet powered test model from
the huge Buran site; make sure to check all pictures for hyperlinks and
click on all the hypertext, as even after going through the website for
a couple of days I'm pretty sure I didn't find anywhere near everything.

Pat

Jim Oberg wrote:

I'll get to these, but not in the near future. Thanks!



I almost forgot...the single coolest page on that website...the detailed
cutaways of the Spiral 50/50 space interceptor fighter and its
escape/reentry pod and its self homing space-to-space missiles:
http://www.buran.ru/htm/str126.htm

Pat