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Offline Moe Grills

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To my Russian friends I extend anniversary greetings.
But, FIRST: As far as I know, Russian and Ukrainian
aerospace manufacturers have used large four-engined
aircraft, like the Antonov's, to transport space modules
and even rocket stages to cosmodromes.
Am I correct?

Regardless. Happy 100'th anniversary my Russian friends.
On May, 13, 1913, the brilliant Russian engineer, Igor Sikorsky
took to the air with the world's first FOUR-ENGINED aircraft.
Most aviators and scientists from 1903 to 1913 thought that such an
huge aircraft was impossible to build and fly.
Igor proved them wrong.

One thing though. It is a shame that Igor Sikorsky never met with the
Russian space/rocket pioneer, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
Imagine the conversation and the plans that could have resulted?
A hypothetical liquid-fueled rocket booster more than 10 years before
Robert Goddard built one.

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To my Russian friends I extend anniversary greetings.
But, FIRST: As far as I know, Russian and Ukrainian
aerospace manufacturers have used large four-engined
aircraft, like the Antonov's, to transport space modules
and even rocket stages to cosmodromes.
Am I correct?


They mostly use trains.  I believe only Buran and Energia components were the only flown hardware.  The Antonovs are used to bring foreign satellites to the cosmodrome.

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The Antonovs are used to bring foreign satellites to the cosmodrome.
I believe some other sensitive payloads are also delivered by plane. If my memory serves me well, Radio-Astron was one of those delivered by plane.

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Briz-M is also delivered by An-124.

Offline Moe Grills

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Briz-M is also delivered by An-124.

I have to remind everybody that nothing large and heavy would be delivered by air to cosmodromes, or to any space center, were it
not for the brilliance and determination and engineering development of men like Igor Sikorsky.

And BTW, a bit off topic, Sikorsky helicopters were used to recover American spacecraft and astronauts after splashdown, many years ago.
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not for the brilliance and determination and engineering development of men like Igor Stravinsky.

Yes, many concerts would not gotten of the ground without him

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not for the brilliance and determination and engineering development of men like Igor Stravinsky.

Yes, many concerts would not gotten of the ground without him


 :)  Typo corrected. Who says you don't have a sense of humor? Thanks for
the heads up.

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Moe, I highly recommend for you to find a Soviet movie "A Poem About Wings" (1979), dedicated to the life of Igor Sikorsky (hopefully with English subtitles).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079730/
"Selene, the Moon. Selenginsk, an old town in Siberia: moon-rocket  town" Vladimir Nabokov

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