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Was the Buran ever actually flown with air-breathing jet engines or is this purely hypothetical fantasy like most of that program?
by newnewpdro 8y ago
Was the Buran ever actually flown with air-breathing jet engines or is this purely hypothetical fantasy like most of that program?
- avmich 8y agoNot exactly the same Buran that flew, but its atmospheric analog during training and development: http://buran.ru/htm/anabst.htm http://buran.ru/htm/anabst.htm
- newnewpdro 8y agoThat's pretty cool, I didn't know they did that.
- Anarch157a 8y agoBefore the OK-1 unit did it's unmanned flight, several prototypes were built to test different aspects of the craft, one of these had jet engines and made atmospheric flights, including taking off on it's own.