Buran-Energia

Here is some pictures taken inside the Mriya.
There is some pictures of the cockpit and one more uncommon of the machineries room.

Other pictures of the Mriya.

Here is some pictures shoot by a visitor at the Paris air show (Le Bourget) in 1989. It was the first time that Buran was shown in public and the first time she went outside the USSR. The Antonov 255 flew from Baikonur to Paris by Moscow. It flew without escort except from the French border where it was escorted by Mirages planes.

Thanks to Patrick Amand for the pictures.

Other pictures in the gallery.

I published a complet part about the carrier plane VM-T Atlant.

This plane was made by the Myasishchev design office to carry the tanks of the Energia launch vehicule and the Buran shuttles from Moscow to Baikonur.

Here is some pictures of the Mriya 2. The renovation of this plane should have begun in late 2007 to finish in 2008, but unfortunatly the work haven’t begun yet.

An exposition about the Buran-Energia project took place at Tushino from October 31 to November 23, 2008, it was about the 20th anniversary of the first flight of Buran.

One can see Strizh and Orlan spacesuit (made by Zvezda), miscellaneous former documents, some model kit (Buran, Mriya, BOR/EPOS), and lots of pictures.

Source: orbicraft.livejournal.com

One of our readers repported me that the Mriya was at the Budapest’s airport in January 19, 2008, it was chartered to carry petrolum equipments to Oman (on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula).

Here are some pictures taken by Szabolcs Bakonyi:

Source: Index.hu

The Mriya landed at the Ben Gurion airport (Israel) on february 2. The plane was chartered by ACAS Israel in co-operation with ACI to transport outsized cargo from Israel to Africa.

I just uploaded a part about the Antonov 225′s engine the D-18T in the Mriya’s chapter. This part includes detailled schematics of the differents sets of the engine as well as technical datas.