Fun fact! Moscow now has a subway (metro) directly in Vnukovo airport. That's right, you can just arrive from abroad and hop onto city transport without any additional hassle
Yeah it's fairly obscure model, because it was retired much faster than Concorde since such plane is useless in socialism because they are no rich people to pander to like this. It was mostly used as really fast cargo transport plane, but again it's something just regular transport plane were good for with much less resources used.
Western media also don't like to mention it since it's like casual soviet achievment done "in the meantime" vs the incredibly lauded and advertised Concorde. Not to mention Concorde itself faded into obscurity now so there is even less opportunities to mention its soviet counterpart.
Well it’s labeled with CCCP 77061 so maybe that helps? I’m not great when it comes to model anythings, “a car is a car and a plane is a plane” type thought process I have.
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Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml · 19 pts · 2y
Fun fact! Moscow now has a subway (metro) directly in Vnukovo airport. That's right, you can just arrive from abroad and hop onto city transport without any additional hassle
SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml · 11 pts · 2y
Note to self when I visit Moscow I guess
TheBat@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml · 16 pts · 2y
Ok, hear me out
Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml · 10 pts · 2y
I'm listening
DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml · 13 pts · 2y
I can't speak any further without getting bonked by a doge
SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml · 9 pts · 2y
I would
Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml · 14 pts · 2y
Looking at this and the other commenter made me wonder how communism got associated with the color red
GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml · 14 pts · 2y
my brain refuses to accept that the picture isn't squashed
Igloojoe@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 2y
Everywhere I look reminds me of her...
COMHASH@lemmygrad.ml · 2 pts · 2y
Your gf?
LaChaleurDeLaNuit@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
no, yo moma
garibaldi_biscuit@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
It reminds me of something from a while ago ... I just can't put my finger on it.
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Don't you mean in it?
lettruthout@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Where is this?
DeHuq2@lemmygrad.ml · 22 pts · 2y
Moscow, Pykhtino station. It was opened a week ago
sicaniv@lemmygrad.ml · 13 pts · 2y
Moscow metro
LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml · 6 pts · 2y
Giggidy.
DeHuq2@lemmygrad.ml · 6 pts · 2y
Lmao why are you like this
ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml · 6 pts · 2y
I can't make out the model of plane hanging. I wanted to say a Concord at first glance, but now I'm confused.
PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml · 15 pts · 2y
That's Tu-144, world's first supersonic cruise plane, had its first flight before famous Concorde.
ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml · 8 pts · 2y
Ah! That makes sense! I was racking my brain for a similar plane, but the best I could come up with was maybe an early prototype of the TU-22.
PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml · 6 pts · 2y
Yeah it's fairly obscure model, because it was retired much faster than Concorde since such plane is useless in socialism because they are no rich people to pander to like this. It was mostly used as really fast cargo transport plane, but again it's something just regular transport plane were good for with much less resources used.
Western media also don't like to mention it since it's like casual soviet achievment done "in the meantime" vs the incredibly lauded and advertised Concorde. Not to mention Concorde itself faded into obscurity now so there is even less opportunities to mention its soviet counterpart.
SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml · 6 pts · 2y
Well it’s labeled with CCCP 77061 so maybe that helps? I’m not great when it comes to model anythings, “a car is a car and a plane is a plane” type thought process I have.
Franfran2424@lemmygrad.ml · 5 pts · 2y
ugliest moscow station be like:
AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml · 5 pts · 2y
Looking at the first photograph reminded me of something familiar…
Rasm635u@lemmygrad.ml · 4 pts · 2y
Where is this metro station?