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  • haentz, on 07/20/2008, -19/+1Flying Wiener...
    • TheWebSwinger, on 07/22/2008, -0/+10Does your weiner look like that? Get that checked out.
    • 8ballblack, on 07/22/2008, -1/+3LoL, TheWebSwinger...He may have a testicular cancer growth lol
  • ilovelegos, on 07/20/2008, -1/+48The Millenium Falcon Needs to lose some weight.
    • ijacker, on 07/22/2008, -0/+15she'll still do .5 past light speed
    • topoisomerase, on 07/22/2008, -1/+15what the hell is an aluminum falcon?
      • Dr00pieS, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Dammit! Beat me to it.

        Well played sir.
    • joegibes, on 07/22/2008, -6/+2In Soviet Russia, First shoots Han!
      • edwartica, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2In soviet Russia, I beet you with a stick for the worst in Soviet Russia joke ever!
  • CouchTomato, on 07/21/2008, -0/+121Ew..its engines and wings are missing. Here are the original designs:
    http://www.monino.com/images/avia/monino/drsf_vva1 ...
    http://www.strange-mecha.com/ship/wig/14m1p.JPG
    • hayden.evans, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2i was gonna say, how on earth would that thing be able to fly?
    • skuk, on 07/22/2008, -1/+3I thought it might be this one which i had seen before, but yours looks like likely.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekranoplan
    • Cndor, on 07/22/2008, -7/+2Thanks for ruining the joke
    • sporg, on 07/22/2008, -1/+3With the brute force Russian approach you can build anything and make it fly.

      Looking at this thing makes me sad.
    • edwartica, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1ew?
    • lowbot, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2Not to mention the design on the tie-fighters are from 1940s bombers. Star Wars is actually influenced by this, not the other way around.
    • tdilworth, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1still looks ugly as *****
  • TheKyle27, on 07/21/2008, -1/+36Since when does Hoth have big red barns on its landscape?
    • supaklaw, on 07/22/2008, -0/+4"You'll be dead before you reach the first marker!"

      "Then I'll see you in hell, English!"
    • AeroZepp, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2"I don't know why they call it Hoth, they should call it Coldth."
    • Monkeydew06, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1It's for hiding the shield generators... DUH...
  • tigerplug, on 07/22/2008, -8/+188 Diggs and its down?
    • Asidic, on 07/22/2008, -0/+3110 Diggs and it's perfectly fine?
    • ijacker, on 07/22/2008, -0/+4121 diggs and i stil dont care either way because its right THERE?
      • tigerplug, on 07/22/2008, -2/+1Meh .... Firefox with the damn office DNS servers :(


        Sorted now ... in IE ... DONT TELL ANYONE! ;)
    • SeventhSon, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1437 diggs and you're down.
  • nendoke, on 07/22/2008, -0/+12http://wigen.net/hobby/vva/
  • Skod, on 07/22/2008, -5/+2Ground effect aircraft are a beautiful fantasy....too bad they were impractical...
    • arjie, on 07/22/2008, -0/+14Well, aircraft built that would only fly by ground effect haven't been too popular, but otherwise ground effect is immensely practical. I remember reading a long time ago that world war pilots would fly close to the sea level to preserve fuel.

      This isn't a ground effect aircraft by the way, it was capable of high altitude flight unlike the ekranoplans.
      • edwartica, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Yeah, remember in the end of Jurassic Park when they were on the Helicopter? They were flying pretty damn close to the ocean.

        Ok, digg me down.
    • Peko, on 07/22/2008, -0/+4FYI (and FMI cuz I didn't understand):

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekranoplan
    • freebird09, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Podracer!
  • clak, on 07/22/2008, -5/+60It's a piece of junk!

    Sincerely,

    Luke Skywalker

    • zupzupper, on 07/22/2008, -0/+12I'll make point 5 past lightspeed.

      Regards,

      Han Solo
      • Totz83, on 07/22/2008, -0/+23Stop with the ***** you will

        Yoda
      • mayhemchaos, on 07/22/2008, -0/+8I find your lack of faith disturbing.

        With love,

        D. Vader
      • Dr00pieS, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2I used to bullseye Womprats in my T-16 back home; they're not much bigger than two meters.

        Luke
      • Monkeydew06, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1*Gurgle-roar*

        Chewbacca
    • roguevalley, on 07/22/2008, -1/+1Uh... off the top of my head, I'd say it's:

      Luke: What a piece of junk!

      Han: She'll make point five past lightspeed...
  • smacksaw, on 07/22/2008, -1/+13That would be way more comfortable if it had a couch in the cockpit.
  • lindstorm, on 07/22/2008, -0/+17Origins of this airplane, Bartini Beriev VVA-14, are (not so surprisingly) in Cold war time, and there's more information about it in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VVA-14
    Also, some flight / take-off footage in youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvK7vnZhqgw
  • kravex, on 07/22/2008, -1/+31Doesn't look anything like the Millennium Falcon

    http://www.wellandcanal.ca/salties/m/milfalcon/fal ...

    :-)
  • MariaSverdlova, on 07/22/2008, -1/+13http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgtaeRZjWNc&NR=1
    This one is better
    The flying ship
    It's speed is probably 500km/h
    But Russia has only one such a unit
    • lindstorm, on 07/22/2008, -0/+7The plane in your video Ekranoplan KM, aka Kaspian Sea Monster is a Ground effect vehicle, so it can not actually fly other than just few meters of the ground (or sea, in this case, but any flat surface is good). But Beriev VVA-14 is an actual airplane.
      ...but yes, you're right, Ekranoplan is an unbeleavable plane, with over 300 feet of length, and as the Beriev, this one's too a child of cold war.
      Actually in US, Boeing Phantom Works has been working on an even bigger version of Ground effect vehicle codenamed Pelican (400ft long), but it's still only a concept.
  • comradeTJH, on 07/22/2008, -2/+4Did this thing really fly?
  • Psi57, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Hovertank?
  • tigerplug, on 07/22/2008, -1/+3Uber cool!
  • TheWebSwinger, on 07/22/2008, -0/+3Metal Gear Ray + R2D2 =
  • sharper130, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2better image of it:
    http://www.airliners.net/photo/Russia---Air/Beriev ...
  • Kalakov, on 07/22/2008, -0/+3By just looking at the thumbnail you can see a face...

  • zadadka, on 07/22/2008, -6/+1In Soviet.....yada...
  • Kitsune818, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2More information and some in flight pictures:
    http://www.testpilot.ru/russia/bartini/vva/vva_e.h ...
  • ladbroke, on 07/22/2008, -1/+9Ah, Soviet Aviation. Build an airplane, forget the wings, blame capitalism when it doesn't fly.
  • MizuhoChan, on 07/22/2008, -0/+6I bet than thing could make the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs.
  • walkman50, on 07/22/2008, -1/+2Nice photo, fugly plane. Looks even worse with wings, engines, etc. It's true: ugly planes can't fly, and helicopters are so ugly that gravity rejects them.
  • MrFurious2k, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2Looks pretty bad ass without wings. If only we could master anti-gravity.
  • Indrius, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1It's ED-209 from Robocop.
  • sandersdamnit, on 07/22/2008, -0/+5Is that the plane from the end of Metal Gear Solid 3?
  • leafsfanbudman, on 07/22/2008, -5/+3so does anyone else think this looks like some chick on her knees giving head?
    • Indierocka, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1apparently not
    • rockandrollmark, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2looks like a POV shot of a robot giving a blowjob
    • gibson850, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Ya that was my initial thought; I was looking for someone to say it first though haha.
  • InsaneOni, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2What the hell is wrong with Russian engineers. Everything they design looks completely crazy.
    • JrGhoull, on 07/22/2008, -0/+3so crazy that it just might work....
    • southwestnut, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1because they took the song "Drink up me hearties yo ho" literally
  • RajAtWork, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2Bartini (this aircraft designer) was a true visionary. Among other things was mentioned as his teacher by Sergei Korolev - father of Russian space program. Of course, Stalin promptly imprisoned Bartini for almost 20 years and many of his designs were never realized.
  • esssential, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1its a mobile armor
  • 0biKwiet, on 07/22/2008, -1/+1Why are soviet aircraft always so ugly?
    • southwestnut, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2you answered your question...."soviet" aircraft.

      but hand it to them, they could make a brick fly
  • kurupttek, on 07/22/2008, -3/+1http://lh4.google.com/bspcn.com/R0WXuSiFHvI/AAAAAA ...
    look like this happen to server
  • RedneckRandy, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2Does it transform?
  • craighoxton, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1"You flew in that thing? You're braver than I thought."
  • istumbler, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid.

  • tomarocco, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1It's amazing the ***** governments blow resources on.
  • srodolff, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1It made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.

    Um, isn't a parsec a unit of distance, not time?
    • infiniphunk, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1yeah, about 3.3 light-years.
      the technology behind the Falcon's hyperdrive is so advanced, that its hard to comprehend the vast distances covered when the jump to hyperspace is made. Note that making the jump to hyperspace involves actually exceeding the speed of light. So its like a sports car that does 0 to 60 within a certain distance, like over a hundred feet or something.
  • ChayD, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Interesting, but the title is misleading, I thought it was in some way the Soviet version of SDI.
  • southwestnut, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Strange, the area looks like Hoth
  • VacantThoughts, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Snake: A ground effect vehicle!?!!
  • ShaoKahn, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1I bet the Thunderbirds had one to
    http://www.testpilot.ru/russia/bartini/vva/img/300 ...
  • sporg, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Here is a forum with some info on the "Bartini Project" which built this aircraft and a better picture plus one of it actually flying. http://www.scale-models.co.uk/planes/2061-bereiv-b ...
  • mstachiw, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Snake you need to get into Rex. They took the rail gun.
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