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Apparently the big seaplane's purpose in life is for anti-submarine/maritime patrol. Wow!! Some other cool pics of Russian helos and jet fighter demo team.





http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/Gidroaviasalon2006/Highlights/index.html
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Cool pics Paul 8) ...thanks for sharing the link!

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That could resemble a Martin Seamaster.

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incredible pics!!! the jet fly boat is awesome!! never saw it before!!!! what was that russian jet boat monstronsity from the 60' or 70's that looked like a warbird, but it wasn't???

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Tom, that was an Ekranoplan, seen at:

http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/lun_ekranoplan.pl

That thing also carried cruise missiles....real hoot!

Ther's also some real good Russian video of that and other aircraft at:

http://www.aviapedia.com/

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that's the animal!!! coolskie!!! but, no wonder the russkies went bankrupt with that non flying behemoth!!! is the traditional jet flying boat still operational & in service?? the footage looks fairly recent.

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Tom,

No, the "Caspian Sea Monster" is no longer active. It was taken out of service in, I believe, 1996. Real eye-opener, tho - could do 240 kts over the water :shock:

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wow... great pictures. Looks like a nice little beach and airshow. :)

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Wow, thats a big plane! :shock:
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Oh, the irony, I only changed my avatar to a Beriev flying boat last week for more info see the link below, the photo section is pretty good with lots of old photos of their production and prototype aircraft including the "Caspian sea monster".

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