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I was looking for images showing how being low to the ground and relatively skinny makes the Buff seem small compared with wide-body airliners when I stumbled on this. Boeing's 'Guppy', for transporting 787 parts. wtf

Looks like it was knocked up in somebody's shed

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They has static B-52 @ Duxford. Stand next to it. Not small!?

I can confirm that standing under a B52 does indeed give you the sense that they are definitely not small.

It's big enough that they built a hanger around one at Duxford:

American Air Museum at Duxford by p_a_h, on Flickr

OK, so they aren't Cessnas. They do have a small cross section though - like tester said.

The closest I've been to one is the one they have parked outside Orlando international, it just looked smaller than I imagined.

Saw the new BA A380 on its way to Heathrow the other day, it looks good in that paint job. Its too quiet though.

Saw the new BA A380 on its way to Heathrow the other day, it looks good in that paint job. Its too quiet though.

It did a flyby at RIAT
so so quiet!

^ Better with Concorde.

Got bored of the nice weather so stayed indoors this weekend watching cricket and doing some renders...

Reckon that comfortably out-geeks the entire thread, if not the whole forum. Time well spent.

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What. You rendered these?

Are those engines off?! :-D

On, but just not in afterburn mode? #outofmydepth

That's really impressive. Mad skillz brah.

What. You rendered these?

Modelled, textured, rendered. Not all this weekend, mind.

Are those engines off?! :-D

If you mean the lack of heat haze out the back, there is some but I might have made it a bit subtle out of fear of overdoing it. Am always terrified of overdoing it, hence staying indoors.

On, but just not in afterburn mode? #outofmydepth

Proper on, with fire!

Fire made it good.

Got bored of the nice weather so stayed indoors this weekend watching cricket and doing some renders...

Reckon that comfortably out-geeks the entire thread, if not the whole forum. Time well spent.

Alloy or titanium?

Predominantly alloy...

What software you using Brun?

V nice textures.

Guessing you didn't model it as well!?

Ту-160 looking particularly swan-like, via http://lusika33.livejournal.com/47047.html

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http://images6.alphacoders.com/417/417484.jpg

Smell ya later?

Yes, in the captions on livejournal the photographer says he was choking on kerosene being behind it at take off

Might be a repost. Dunno, but it was interesting to me.. large Russian ground-effect stuff..

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/06/ekranoplan/

Yep, Caspian Sea Monsters. Good article though.

I don't know why they stopped developing them - being able to transport tanks under radar at 300 knots sounds handy.

Probably only effective inland. ie not adept on rough sea / 40ft waves.

High chance of catastrophic collision as well if busy shipping lanes at night etc.

Now I'm trying to imagine what a giant plane full of tanks crashing into an oil tanker would look like...

I don't know why they stopped developing them

Like many Soviet era projects, running out of money played a big part. Lack of flexibility compared with alternatives (Flying Boats and Hovercraft) probably played a part too.