In fact I'm enjoying this thread so much that here's a few more, starting with something truly deranged from the (excellent) aviation museum in Krakow:
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And here's a few more of the weird, wacky and wonderful from magical Monino:
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And finally... yes, this is an aircraft. Well, sort of. It's a WIG (wing-in-ground)-effect air vehicle, or
Ekranoplan, designed for skimming just above the surface of the water. The most (in)famous example of this type of craft was the so-called 'Caspian Sea Monster', and a surviving example of the concept (an A-90 Orlyonok) can be seen sitting on a lake on the outskirts of Moscow. This here is a Bartini-Beriev VVA-14 - such a shame to see it tucked away on a remote corner of the airfield and clearly in a desperately poor state of repair, though I read somewhere that there are still hopes that it might be properly restored:
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Posting comments on an aviation-related chatroom, are ya? Looks like it an' all...