New Individual Flying Vehicle to Be Developed

[leewilcox 0]

http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/11260/


Russian engineers are working on an individual flying vehicle, which users will need no parachute.

New flying vehicle looks like a Batman suit. Its main idea is a wingsuit, widely used in sky-diving, which is a jumpsuit with textile webs between extremities. Ordinary wingsuit doesn’t provide landing, because it cannot be used insdead of a parachute.

New development of Russian engineers boasts larger webs for improved stability and safe landing. Landing will be based upon “cushion” effect, common for landings with parachutes of “wing” type.

Engineers are currently calculating optimum parameters for the suit and will soon start testing a full-scale model of the suit in a wind channel.

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[gisellemartins 0]

Sounds great! any pictures?

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[mccordia 74]

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JC
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[The111 1]

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Sounds great! any pictures?

Based on the second sentence of the OP, I was able to find this.

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Looks pretty freaking cool.

www.WingsuitPhotos.com

[Calvin19 0]

I bet it starts with a unicycle.

[andreweden 0]

CONDORMAN!!!!!
http://www.themoviedb.org/movie/19379

[Skwrl 56]

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And use of such wingsuit sans parachute will likely make that typo come true.

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[Costyn 1]

I posted this to wingsuitnews.com too.

If you click the link to Science News in the summary (which is what it is), you get a longer article in Russian:

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://nauka.izvestia.ru/news/article104553.html

Unfortunately the article is light on details... but makes a fun read. 'Vingsyut' heh.

Costyn van Dongen - http://www.flylikebrick.com/ - World Wide Wingsuit News

[birdynamnam 28]

If any engineers can do this, it have to be the russians, think of all the strange flying machines they have created over the years...

http://englishrussia.com/images/flying_fortress/1.jpg

[mccordia 74]

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If any engineers can do this, it have to be the russians, think of all the strange flying machines they have created over the years...

http://englishrussia.com/images/flying_fortress/1.jpg

Than post some of their actual cool flying devices, and not a 3D render based on some concepts that where never made/flown...

The K7 is the closest that actually flew (related to similar designs). But yea..many weird flying contraptions did fly (or where in development) especially the whole 'flying body' program (also from the US) is quite cool. Though almost all programs share the fact that 'landing' was the only thing they didnt really do all that well..

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[birdynamnam 28]

http://englishrussia.com/images/a_weird_soviet_plane_vva14/1.jpg

[mccordia 74]

With the wings still on the VVA-14, it looks quite normal for an Ekranoplane...

JC
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[aarthus 0]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUTWWsh6iGA&feature=player_embedded#!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbecl88NsEQ

Patrick de Guillebon

[birdynamnam 28]

sorry for the thread drift, but it is simply too funny, the comments on the french design: "After it crashed, Lebouge, facing a firing squad, said defiantly, "We are lovers, not engineers!""

http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/Major%20Howdy%20Bixby.htm

[aarthus 0]

Looks like the Ekranoplane pic you posted is the model Bartini Beriev VVA 14....should have wings on top of it...

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


http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/06/ekranoplans-showcase-part-2.html

Patrick de Guillebon

[birdynamnam 28]

I know, but that was not the point, the point was really just how weird it looked, even w/o wings :) And... you forgot the most important thing : to comment /get back on me - on the "we are lovers, not engineers" Maybe Zun would like to have that as his signature?

Merry Christmas Pat, from us tree.

[aarthus 0]

yes but also...


http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2215137180

Patrick de Guillebon

[mccordia 74]

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Looks like the Ekranoplane pic you posted is the model Bartini Beriev VVA 14....should have wings on top of it...

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


http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/06/ekranoplans-showcase-part-2.html

I already mentioned the same a few posts back up

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[aarthus 0]

and here is the pic !

Patrick de Guillebon

[birdynamnam 28]

yes, but Patrick did it way better than you (you the engineer type of guy)

[diablopilot 2]

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If any engineers can do this, it have to be the russians, think of all the strange flying machines they have created over the years...

http://englishrussia.com/images/flying_fortress/1.jpg

Remember, these are the guys who in WWII decided it was going to be cheaper and less of an effort to deploy troops by dropping them on very slow, low altitude jumpruns into snow banks rather than equip and train them with parachutes.

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