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A Weird Soviet Plane VVA-14

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This is one of the weirdest exhibit
of the Air Force Museum in Monino, the Moscow Region: a Bartini plane that was
turned into an ekranoplan. Today we’ll study the exterior of the vehicle.

The wings and the empennage are
dosmantled, no engines are left. VVA-14 was made on the basis of an amphibian
project MVA-62 developed in 1962. The main constructor – R.L. Bartini. Both the
amphibian and its creator were quite unusual for their time.

The cab’s nose, we can see mounts
for auxiliary lift engines which were used in the attempts to make an ekranoplan
from VVA-14.

Heavy “pits”

MVA-62 became a basis for designing
a bigger anti-submarine vertical takeoff amphibian VVA-14.The plan gave lots of
reasons for doubts but was too revolutionary not to give it a try.

The back view, do you sea a hatch?

The right end of the aft body,
someone tried to bite it?

The left was bitten off

VVA-14 had to become a part of an
aviation anti-submarine complex consisting ofÂ  the plane itslef, target
search and track system “Burevestnik”, anti-submarine weapon andÂ  the
afloat fuelling system. The complex was intended for search and destruction of
submarines located 1200-1500 km away.

The left side

Wings attaching point

Pontoons

VVA-14 represented the whole complex
of unusual technical solutions and each of them demanded a lot of engineering
efforts before test flights.

The cabin’s view from the portside.

For the tests of the control system,
there were made two piloting stands: with a movable and a stationary cabins.

Another view.

A fuselage of a semimonoqoque
structure turning to a center-section. In the forebody is a three seater
cabin.

Before turning into an ekranoplan

Various hatches

The attaching point of the right empennage group

Part of the cowling shutter

Pontoon – the rear view

Another rear view

Looks like a mount attachment for
transportation and wings dismantling

The cowling shutter from the outer
side of the pontoon

Some devices under the cabin

The view from under the cab

A ready ekranoplan

A rear view from the left side

Cowling shutter

The cabin

The pontoons and their
retraction-extansion system is just filled with various unique devices.

The forepart chassis

Its rear view

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Comments
(35) 8:38 pm

35 Responses to “A Weird Soviet Plane VVA-14”

1st!
says:

September
6, 2010 at 8:59 pm

FIRST!!!

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tth says:

September
6, 2010 at 9:05 pm

Starwars hypothetical spaceship design is now real ! Long life too the
Millennium Falcon brother !

And many thanks to you, at englishrussia, for all that nice pics…

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russia_bound
says:

September
6, 2010 at 9:39 pm

Cool concept for aircraft. Very cool pictures. Thanks for the upload…

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George
O. Riley says:

September
6, 2010 at 10:36 pm

Never does man show greater ingenuity than in devising more efficient ways
of killing his fellow man.

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Chris
says:

September
6, 2010 at 10:48 pm

Yeah, but did it every fly?

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Spooker
says:

September
6, 2010 at 11:18 pm

It is a pity that not a single effort by the museum to restore the plane
even to the modest degree.
It is a fantastic design with an unfortunate
end.
And is not an ekranoplan but yes, it uses the WIG effect.
Cool so
cool, but that kind of plane should not end like that. I see pictures before
of VVA-14 but never so close thanks. That end is unfair I insist.
I wish I
could do something to restore it.

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SSSR
says:

September
7, 2010 at 12:44 am

Where is Luke and R2?

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SovMarxist1924
says:

September
7, 2010 at 5:13 pm

If they’re here, they’re proudly wearing red stars.

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SSSR
says:

September
7, 2010 at 9:08 pm

Then they must be with the empire!All hope is lost!

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NotAPlane
says:

September
7, 2010 at 12:44 am

It’s boat, not a plane.

Reply

Ivo
says:

September
7, 2010 at 5:12 am

That amazing.

I wonder how much money have this people spent for this!!!

Reply

Testicules
says:

September
7, 2010 at 5:56 am

I’d pay to have one. It would be great for fishing.

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Ivana
Benderova says:

September
7, 2010 at 6:49 am

This is not antique aircraft. It is Aeroflot awaiting departure this day
from Monino to St. Petersburg.

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Chris
says:

September
7, 2010 at 10:23 am

ROOOOOOOOOFL!!!!!!!!

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George
Johnson says:

September
7, 2010 at 8:43 am

Looks like the wings on that thing were VERY small compared to the rest of
the plane.

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Pigeon says:

September
10, 2010 at 8:14 am

That’s the idea, it’s a ground effect machine (ekranoplan) ie. it takes
advantage of the increased lift you get when flying sufficiently close to
the surface, so it only needs small wings. Check out the other ekranoplan
pages on this site.

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Donnageddon
says:

September
7, 2010 at 3:05 pm

Looks like a Firefly spacecraft.

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Grinya
says:

September
8, 2010 at 12:52 pm

Don’t be fool… it’s not a plane!

Reply

OKya
says:

September
8, 2010 at 8:50 pm

yea this is a nice aircraft mates

http://kaakotech.com/

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from
says:

September
9, 2010 at 12:42 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAk3kwXfEWk

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Tom says:

September
9, 2010 at 10:55 am

That’s one of the most bizarre looking planes I’ve ever seen! How much of
this cool stuff does Russia have? When America has tested so many “top secret
aircraft” over the years, it really makes you wonder what kind of stuff the
Russians have been looking into also!

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Google
It says:

September
10, 2010 at 7:44 am

Yes it is a plane, and yes apparently it did fly. Better images of the
original with the wings on. http://www.testpilot.ru/russia/bartini/vva/vva_e.htm

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scot
says:

September
10, 2010 at 12:12 pm

I love that…. Get a load of old planes, leave them in a field to rot….and
then call it a “Museum” Dear God…

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Frau
says:

September
13, 2010 at 6:22 pm

So you have been to the Pima Air Museum in Arizona as well.

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Byron76 says:

September
11, 2010 at 7:58 am

Very strange bird, i hope the staff of Monino Museum could get all the
parts together and restore it for exhibition.
Great pictures.
Regards
from Argentina.

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Bonkers says:

September
14, 2010 at 1:42 am

Weird!

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Pr0j3ct_D1gp
says:

October
5, 2010 at 6:16 am

There Is no one here beside me that know exactly what that plane is
???
Actually here The Aircraft has been cut in piece ‘cuz the wing are not
there
It’s more called a WIG (Wing In Ground-effect)
A WIG boat is a
boat with wings that cruises just above the water surface, it is floating on a
cushion of relatively high-pressure air between its wing and the water
surface. This cushion is created by the aerodynamic interaction between the
wing and the surface, called ground effect. This is where a WIG boat is
different from an aircraft, it cannot operate without ground effect, so its
operating height is limited relative to its size

As You Escaped with Snake And Eva in The Metal Gear Solid 3 Opus on
Playstation 2 your in a WIG
This is exactly a complete version of the
VVA-14
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_hVOW2U7K4-M/SiO0X5yN2eI/AAAAAAABCGo/1CBRFDYvWHc/s640/17.jpg

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tushan
says:

February
22, 2011 at 8:10 pm

http://www.testpilot.ru/russia/bartini/vva/vva_e.htm

Still, by design the VVA could and did perform high-altitude flights,
which makes it so much cooler than other Soviet WIGs

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GNIK AREA says:

October
8, 2010 at 3:02 pm

You shoulda shown a diagram of it with the wings attached, otherwise it
just looks confusing!!

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Mas telecom news freak says:

October
22, 2010 at 9:12 am

i don’t think Air Force Museum would do such a careless maintenance..

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Typepad says:

October
29, 2010 at 5:41 pm

i don’t think that it could ever fly, too big and without an aerodynamic
design

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tushan
says:

February
22, 2011 at 8:24 pm

yeah, they just slapped it together for kicks after a bong or two. It was
60s after all. The designer even died in the process, that being so funny
and all

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carlos
trujillo says:

January
10, 2011 at 1:09 pm

PARESE UNA NAVE ESPACIAL

Reply

art boats and cars says:

January
16, 2011 at 5:23 am

It looks like something out of star wars or perhaps a new Japanese model
futuristic car design

Reply

gigi
says:

February
28, 2011 at 2:06 am

It’s not a plane, it’s a high speed boat.

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