[ROVERNET - UK] Russian planes (OT, of course)

[Marc Stainier]

The russian Concorde was called the 'Concordski" at that time !
Regards

Marc
Belgium

P2 !

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Kirkpatrick" <britcarnut at yahoo.com>
To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 8:07 PM
Subject: [ROVERNET - UK] Russian planes (OT, of course)


> The Russian supersonic airliner was similarly cribbed from the Concorde,
> though through industrial espionage rather than confiscation.  I remember
> a very interesting TV documentary on this a few years back.
>
>
>>
>> Did you ever hear the story of how Stalin copied the American B-29 at
>> the end
>> of WWII? Three of them were impounded when they landed in the USSR
>> following
>> a raid on Japanese territory. I'm not sure whether he ever gave them
>> back to
>> the US or not, but he had one taken apart and copied right down to each
>> nut
>> and bolt. The foot pedals on the Soviet production planes actually had
>> the
>> word "Boeing" molded into the casting. Western powers were shocked to
>> see a
>> squadron of modern, pressurized long range bombers identical to the
>> state of
>> the art B-29 fly over at a Soviet air show or May Day display.
>>
>> Absolutely true story.
>>
>> The Russians were no slouches when it came to aircraft design, but this
>> was
>> handed to them on a platter.
>>
>> Glen
>
>
>
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