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Who's going to bid on this Tupolev at BJ auction Saturday?

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Dave should get this thing and put RDP sticker on it.;)

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The commies had weird boating ideas back in the day...


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It would be awesome to hear start up.
 

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My friend will have his triple turbo truck on prime time tonight at BJ.

 

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Looked it up, and noticed it is counter rotating system.

As a old manufacturing guy, the tin bending and engineering is incredible.
The woodworking skills for making the props is a lost art. No 5 or 6 axis machines at your disposal then.
Also check out the cav plate.

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Just be careful when you fire that thing up in the channel while the girls are on the back peeing off the "swimstep"! :eek::D
 

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Tank,

In today's bote-speak it's "bustle":D.
Also hope the electric starter works, the alternative would not be OSHA approved today. :eek:
 

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Tank,

In today's bote-speak it's "bustle":D.
Also hope the electric starter works, the alternative would not be OSHA approved today. :eek:

HAHAHA! Yes, bustle. and yea, hand starting that thing!? Oaf!:eek::eek:
 

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Thought I saw 250k on one. Quite a few were actually made.
 

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From what I read it was designed for the Russian Space program. One criteria is it could be carried in a cargo plane. The purpose was to be flown to Siberia.
Then to travel across lakes, rivers, marsh, wetlands or even snowy Tundra to retrieve returning Cosmonauts.
 
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