Bartini Beriev VVA-14 Soviet prototype

The VVA-14 was a wing-in-ground-effect aircraft designed by Italian-born designer Robert Bartini and developed in the Soviet Union during the early 1970s.
The first VVA-14 prototype was completed in 1972. Its first flight was from a conventional runway on 4 September 1972.
In 1974, inflatable pontoons were installed, though their operation caused many problems. Flotation and water taxi tests followed, culminating in the start of flight testing of the amphibious aircraft on 11 June 1975.
The inflatable pontoons were later replaced by rigid pontoons, while the fuselage was lengthened and the starting engines added. This incarnation was given the designation 14M1P.

[topsecret]

Probably the coolest aircraft ever built.

Combining VTOL, Ground effect and submarine hunting technology into a seaplane. Unimaginable how effective this would’ve been had its VTOL engines actually worked so it could be put in service.

[thomascooley]

14 was the number of jet engines it took to make it take of vertically

[zeom]

THE SOVIET UNION WAS AN AMAZING COUNTRY ⭐️

[LSLawman]

I wanna like, but I also want to keep the video at 100 likes because even numbers

[Fallout]

In the words of Howard Hughs from the Rocketeer. “ it Will fly.”

[oldgysgt]

Note the row boat in the video at 1:21. I don't suppose a few civilian sightseers just happened to row by the test of a new Soviet prototype. So it must have been an official support boat, but a ROW boat? That's like taking the Apollo Mission Astronauts to the launch pad in a horse drawn cart. It's apparent the USSR was not exactly a real "First World Nation" at that time. More like a "Third World Nation" with nukes.

[kbellanger]

suck in that salt water see what happens LOL

[LilyHeloise-cf]

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[robertpopradi]

Róbert Bartini magyar volt (Hungárian enginiring)