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Mil V-12
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Mil V12 Engine
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Mil V-12 could lift more than a An-22
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Mil V-12 cockpit
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Mil V-12
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Mig 29 Fulcrum sheltered by the massive helicopter
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Mig 29 squeezed into the corner
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Sukhoi Su-35 Prototype
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Su-35 sits under the massive Mil V-12's engine
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Tupolev Tu-4 "Bull"
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Tu-4 "Bull"
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The Tu-4 is a copy of the Boeing B-29
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A line of cold war bombers
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The massive "Badger A" with it's bombs on the grass to the right
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Tupolev Tu-16 "Badger A"
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The later Tu-16K "Badger G"
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Close up of the Tu-16 "Badger A"
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Tu-16 K "Badger G" with underwing "Kingfish" missiles
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Tupolev Tu-16 "Badger A"
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Tupolev Tu-22M-O "Backfire A"
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Tu-22M with Tu-22 behind
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Tupolev Tu-22 "Blinder"
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Tu-22 supersonic cold war bomber
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Il-28 "Beagle" 1950's tactical bomber
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The Myasishchyev M50 "Bounder" points it's nose skyward
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This M50 was the only one ever flown and could reach Mach 1.2 (1961)
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Sukhoi T-4/100
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This titanium bomber was aiming for Mach 3 in the early 1970's before it was cancelled
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My Dad and I in front of the T-4
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It has four RD-36-41 engines which took it to nearly 2000mph
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Tupolev tries his hand at an interceptor with the Tu-128A "fiddler"
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ANT-25 flew non stop from Moscow to California in July 1937
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Russia's first all metal plane the ANT-2
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Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik Second World War fighter bomber
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British Sopworth Triplane which was delivered in 1917
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Ilya Mouromets bomber designed by Igor Sikorsky for the first world war before he left for America
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Yak-9. Thanks to Tim Larkham for identifying this one.
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Yakovlev Yak-24 "Horse" from the 1950's
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Hidden at the back is an American Vertol 44 "flying Banana"
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A helicopter with wings the Mil Mi-6 "Hook"
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Mil Mi-8 "Hip" painted in Soviet green and fitted with rocket launchers
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Mil Mi-24 "Hind" with a square nose
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The square nose version is also fully tooled up
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Mil Mi-24P "Hind E" This later version is more recognisable
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The "Hind E" is the type used in Afghanistan
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At the back is an Mil Mi-10 "Harke" first flown in 1960 and still in use today
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Mil Mi-6 "Hook"
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My Dad with camera in hand!
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Mil Mi-26 "Halo" is currently the world's largest operational helicopter
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The firefighting version of the Mil Mi-6 "Hook"
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Monino in the August sunshine
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Tupolev Tu-95 "Bear A"
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The "Bear" sits in the middle surrounded by other aircraft
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Yakovlev Yak-25 "Flashlight" twin jet bomber
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A development of the Yak-25 the Yak-25RV "Mandrake" had a new wing and was used as an ultra-high-altitude reconnaisance aircraft
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Yakovlev Yak-27R "Mangrove" reconnaissance aircraft is missing an engine cover
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The "mangrove" from the side
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Yakovlev Yak-28B "Brewer A" two seat bomber
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This odd looking thing is the VTOL Yak-36 "Freehand"
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The "Freehand" lead to the Yak-36 "Forger"
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Yak-38 "Forger" and Yak 141 in the background. The Yak 141 was Identified thanks to Alex Papadopoullos
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Yak-38 "Forger" with four rocket launchers
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The Yak-38 was used onboard aircraft carriers
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Yak-141 Freestyle. Thanks to Joe and Jake for identifying this.
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Rear end of the supersonic Yak-141 Freestyle VTOL
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A line of Russian hardware with the "Concordski" at the back
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Lavochkin La-250 experimental jet for early airborne missiles
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Not a Mig-15 but a Lavochkin La-15 "Fantail"
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The " Fantail" head on
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Mig-17 "Fresco"
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Mig-19 "Farmer" including missiles and fuel tanks
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Trainer version Mig-15UTI "Midget"
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Mikoyan and Guryevich Mig-9 "Fargo"
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Mig-21 "Fishbed" the most famous of the Mig fighters and still in service with airforces around the world
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The "Fishbed" head on
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Mig-23 "Flogger"
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Mig-23 "Flogger" Swing Wing fighter bomber
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This is an experimental Mig-21. It was intended as a heavy fighter but was abandoned
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Product 105-11 is an air launched data collecting aircraft for the ill faited "Buran" Russian space shuttle now found in Gorky Park , Moscow.
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Sukhoi Su-25 "Frogfoot"
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Me and my Dad! not actually believing that we are really here
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Sukhoi Su-25 is still in service as we saw later in the week at the MAKS airshow later that week
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You don't want to be on the ground with this above you. The Russian "Concord" behind
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One of the few signs written in English
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The back of the Tu-144 "Charger"
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Bigger than Concord and they say faster!
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This is a Mig-21 with "Charger" wing. Used to gather data for the SST (super sonic transport)
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Mig-29K "Fulcrum" Sits beside the SST
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The K is the naval variant. The arrester hook is between the engines
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Mig-25P "Foxbat A"
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Mig-31 "Foxhound" is similar to the "Foxbat" but newer and has different main wheels and cockpit
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Mig-31 front on
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The massive twin engines of the "Foxhound"
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"Foxhound" once again
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Both the "Foxbat" and the "Foxhound" are huge in the flesh
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The "Foxbat" has seen better days and is listing a bit
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They pack um in at Monino
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Mig-21 and Mig-23 hiding under the wing of a "Mail"
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Tupolev Tu-114 "Cleat"
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The "Cleat" was based on the Tu-95 "Bear" bomber
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This Tu-114 is called Rossiya and clocked up 32 records in the 60's
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It is also the plane that N.Khrushchev flew to New York in on 15th September 1959
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Ilyushin Il-62 "Classic" four jet airliner. Similar to the VC10
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Li-2 Transport
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Antonov An-22 Antei "Cock" not sure if I should decribe it as gigantic with the code name that NATO gave it!
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It is very huge though
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The military transport Antonov An-12 "Cub" and the nose of an An-24 "Coke"
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A better picture of the An-24 "Coke"
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Hiding at the back is the wreck of a Bartini VVA-14 "Ekranoplan" . They fly just just a few feet above the Caspian Sea at high speed
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Theres my Dad again
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Tupolev Tu-104A "Camel" the civilian version of the "Badger" bomber
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Li-2 Military transport is a licence built Douglas DC-3 Dakota , but I did not need to tell you that
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Sukhoi Su-7B "Fitter"
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Look closely and you can see the skids instead of wheels on the "Fitter"
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A line os Sukhois
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Another Su-7 "Fitter"
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Sukhoi Su-17 "Fitter" swing wing fighter bomber
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Well armed Su-17M-3 "Fitter H"
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The continuing line of Sukhois
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Sukhoi Su-11 "Fishpot" with missiles and drop tanks
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Sukhoi Su-15 "Flagon" interceptor
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Sukhoi Su-24 "Fencer" is another swing wing Sukhoi and similar to the American F111
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Another view of the "Fencer"
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American B-25 . Thousands were used by the Russians in the Great Patriotic War
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Petlyakov Pe-2 from the second world war
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More than 1600 Pe-2's were produced
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Tupolev SB-2 this served in Spain where it could out run the fighters sent to shoot it down
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Tupolev Tu-2 series variant
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Ilyushin DB-3 began in 1936 and ended up with 5250 of them produced
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American Douglas A-20 Boston was another US bomber used by the Russians in the Great Patriotic War
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Out of 3303 American Bell P-63 Kingcobras made 2400 were sent to Russia in the war
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IL-18 Coot flew over while at Monino. Thanks to Joe again for identifying this one.
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