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> Fun fact: another Buran sat in an abandoned lot in an Inner Sydney (Australia) suburb for many years. That wasn't an actual Buran, it was a test vehicle used
by Harvey-Specter 8y ago
> Fun fact: another Buran sat in an abandoned lot in an Inner Sydney (Australia) suburb for many years.
That wasn't an actual Buran, it was a test vehicle used to test the handling of the aircraft for gliding and landing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK-GLI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK-GLI
- kweks 8y agoGreat clarification. From what I understood the OK-GLI was still refered to (colloquially and officially) as a Buran, but absolutely, the buran that ended up in Australia is not the same as the one in the Baikonur hanger.