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BBA-14 could land on water.
In the 70 years of the twentieth century to defend the borders of the USSR it was released a unique of its kind amphibious aircraft, which could make takeoffs and landings at zero horizontal speed, and called it - VVA-14. His main task was to detect underwater boat in the United States if they came to the borders of the USSR.
Development and implementation of the project involved Robert Bartini - Soviet designer, who had Italian roots. After all the preparatory procedures have been carried out, in 1972 began construction of the first test specimen, in the same year, on September 4, was made the first takeoff. New voenproma has a number of new technical solutions, that did not have analogues in the world. One such feature - the presence of "ground effect." The car could successfully climb to the sky with both land and water, "acceleration" of up to 760 km / h. Thanks to the aerodynamic cushion, the plane could easily stay above the water surface.
The first take-off was organized from the ground. trends tests were carried out for about 4 years, and during that time the aircraft is significantly improved in the process. Pontoons were installed to be able to splashdown, made fuselage length, put a new engine. The plane looked so unusual that he regularly received the "underground" names, among which were the "Dragon", "Fantomas".
Much to the dismay see full take-off and landing in vertical design and failed - Enterprise Executive, which was responsible for the production of RD-36-35PR not overpower your task.
The entire project finally went downhill after the departure of the designer of life. At that time, the number of flights was about 107 flights, the total duration of 103 hours. After that, only at that time instance under the number 19172 has been eliminated from the trials - the plane was dismantled and sent to the Central Museum of the Air and the USSR Monino. Currently, a group of enthusiasts is planning to restore the exhibit active, and among the top priorities they should return wing amphibious aircraft.
VVA-14 - is a unique product of a very talented designer. While working on their projects, Robert Bartini sought to create a technique that did not have analogues in the world and so that no one else could not repeat his creation. Therefore it is not surprising that the VVA-14 has a lot of fans now.
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