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WAI RAW 14 - Buran

🕑 Added 2020-07-11 15:10:03 +0000 UTC

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Thanks for taking us along with you and the family, looks like an interesting place. Enjoyed the video editing (Watched last night) and music from the WAI playlist 👍

The BURAN prototype OK-GLI shown in the museum was built in 1984 and was used for testing glidingflight and landing after reentry into the atmosphere. During this part of the project the OK-GLI completed 25 atmospheric flights between 1984 and 1989 and significantly contributed to the successful orbital flight of a BURAN shuttle in 1988.

I am pretty sure that it is a moc up...

I did not know about Speyer. More is now added to my knowledge base. And if that is a Buron test article, it would be well worth the visit alone. Perhaps some captioning would help. The kids add a special something to any visit like this. Cool music! Thank you, Felix.

I thought the Buran was destroyed when a Museum roof collapsed on it a few years ago. Did they build two?

Superb video Felix - thanks for sharing. I would have loved to see Buran flying at the same time as Shuttle. I guess you have aleady seen it, but Curious Droid did a really awesome dissection of Buran a while back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLOCQw5s9Uw

Steve Ehrmann

I knew nothing about Speyer. I appreciate the vicarious visit. Suggestion: for me the numerous quick pans were minutes wasted - I couldn't make out much with point of view changing. Worse, they actually made me a little queasy. Personally I'd vote for cutting the pans by 90-100%. But keep these wonderful videos coming!

Wow, what an interesting place. Thanks for bringing us along Felix.