# The Great Ongoing Aviation Thread (general and other) (Part 1)

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**Created:** [October 23, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other-part-1/600499 "2011-10-23T02:17:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other-part-1/600499/1426 "2020-10-22T17:59:23Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> [https://www.cnn.com/travel/gallery/soviet-lun-class-ekranoplan-photos/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/travel/gallery/soviet-lun-class-ekranoplan-photos/index.html)

Cool that they’re moving it and it may rise again.

There’s a lot of interesting vids on the topic here:  
[https://www.youtube.com/results?search\_query=ekranoplan+lun](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ekranoplan+lun)

And some cool pix here:

> **[Belly Of The Beast: Illicit Photos From Inside The Soviet Ekranoplan](https://www.rferl.org/a/photographer-sneaks-inside-the-legendary-soviet-ekranoplan/30777774.html)**
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> A Russian photographer snuck into the world’s only nuclear-capable, ground-effect vehicle and captured rare images of its interior.

> **[Take A Look At These Incredible Shots Of The Russia's Sole Completed...](https://theaviationist.com/2020/08/10/take-a-look-at-these-incredible-shots-of-the-russias-sole-completed-lun-class-ekranoplan/)**
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> Some new interesting (internal and external) images have emerged of the only Project 903 Attack/Transport ground effect vehicle (Ekranoplan) with

This last one seems to demand an email address to dismiss the nag screen. Not really; just leave the email box blank & click the dimmed {Next} at upper right and you’re in.

> **[Interiors of the abandoned Lun ekranoplan ⋆ Russian Urban Exploration](https://rusue.com/interiors-of-the-abandoned-lun-ekranoplan/)**
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> You can look at it from the outside in this post. Let’s climb inside this ship/plane. Loading... The entrance. Loading... There is a massive bitt right near the door for various flotation devices. Near the same door there are fire-extinguishing...

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