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[SUBS17]

Have a guess where that space shuttle is now? Somewhere very sandy.

Mars?

[SUBS17]

Correction Buran was somewhere sandy


But I think it may have been bought by a museum recently.

[Ian Warren]

Nice shots Ian - anymore shots of 88?  Hawk-200, Kiwi Red, F-15, Tornado, Ventura, Neptune, F-18 or Mirage 111?

Yeah Paul plenty plus , maybe you right up with a mix of actual aircraft and Flightsim models .. be a brilliant match

[Ian Warren]

Correction Buran was somewhere sandy


But I think it may have been bought by a museum recently.

Hey subs , they had it in Sydney during the Olympics I believe as display muesum , or general interest not sure , few people told me so

[SUBS17]

From there it went to the middle east and someone went broke and it was stuck there for a while. Last I heard a museum bought it and the 2nd one that was under construction.

[Timmo]

What happend to that first shuttle? Launch pad explosion?
(edit: Never mind, Wikipedia is my friend- The hanger collapsed due to lax maintenance)

I really want to travel to Russia someday and see all those great old aircraft....seems a shame that a lot of them are just rotting away.

[FlyingKiwi]

Unfortunately they have more pressing things to be spending their money on than preserving airplanes that serve no practical purpose anymore. In saying that, the Monino Aviation Musuem looks absolutely fantastic, they have the largest collection of Russian aircraft of any museum in the world, and about the 4th or 5th largest collection of all aircraft in general, I believe the total number is about 175 or so on display.

[Timmo]

Indeed....

"Unfortunately they have more pressing things to be spending their money on than preserving airplanes that serve no practical purpose anymore".....I bet a lot of people said that after WWI and WWII

[FlyingKiwi]

Well yes I suppose that's true; but I'm sure you see my point, if it's a choice between building cheap housing to get some of the homeless people off the streets or keeping a 1950s bomber in a displayable condition it's not going to be much of a contest.