Myasishchev VM-T Atlant NATO Code: Mod Bison

[jdoggybizzle]

It looks like a flying cock.

[52111centrumcz]

That pilot has got balls of buckminsterfullerene!!! He's flying at takeoff heavily overloaded suspension, with a plane full of avgas, carying close to 20 tons of liquid hydrogen on the back of an aircraft in an unstable configuration....HOLY SHIT!

[ThatAdelaideGuy]

@52111centrumcz The Tank is empty

[52111centrumcz]

@ThatAdelaideGuy

A right...that makes it more palatable, thought the hydrogen is transported by air because of purity of production concerns...

[Anticept]

@52111centrumcz Avgas? I highly doubt it uses avgas in those rocket boosters :P

[52111centrumcz]

@Anticept Energyia rocket system uses RD-170 engines, which run on LOX/RP-1. LOX is liquid oxygen and RP-1 is Refined petroleum-1 (kerosene)

[kirbyroxy]

i dont know how thats inpresive because the usa put space shuttles on boeing 747s

[grairsupra]

great aircraft!! классный самолет! спасибо мясищеву за него, жаль проект закрыли...

[Waltham1892]

The victory of lift and thrust over drag...

[sashagnii]

Хорошо взлетел )))

[admiralPs]

why does it fly with liquid hydrogen?

[BringEllisTheHoriZon]

@admiralPs it doesnt use it as fuel, it has liquid hydrogen in the tank that its carrying for the space shuttle

[virustwin]

holy smokes are those wheels on the wings?

[2129261184]

@virustwin Uh, yeah....The B-52, the U-2 and the Harrier also have them LOL, nothing special.

[nettka2]

the russians got crazy :D

[kirbyroxy]

@nettka2 the usa put space ships on boeing 747s

[instink04]

agree its like a bird flaping its wing

[Chuckjagermeister]

Man, I would not want to be carrying liquid hydrogen on my back. Fuck that.

[shurick75]

That just empty tank. Don't you think it would really carry fully loaded one?

[jordyboy321]

seems stupidly draggy

[Interceptor38]

lol lokks like a giant flying condom

[montrosepatriot]

The 3-M Atlant was developed in response to transporting rocket boosters to the Baikonur Cosmodrome for the Buran shuttle program prior to modifying a Tu-144...

[52111centrumcz]

@montrosepatriot

Tu-144 was never used for transporting stuff to Baikonur...it was the An-225s that were used for that.

[rangelso]

the cargo should be fit the other way arround for better aerodynamics

[TheSithTeacher]

If you do so, you will create some nasty turbulences on the elevator and rudder, it's better that way.

It's better to have effective control surfaces than a little more drag ;)

[xoio]

A 'little' more drag? ... that must be like flying with a brick wall on your back...

[TheSithTeacher]

relative to the tank position the othe way :)

[vaninec]

Nice

[TripleZ89]

DAMMMMMMMNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!! THAT is .... FAT. It is SoooOoo fat... the little fighter jet escorts are actually stuck in its gravitational field! HA!

[bundallo]

Awesome! The ugliest thing ever airborne, but still awesome!

The beast! :)

[TonyFirelli]

Your the ugliest thing ever born