Saturday, November 20, 2010

Huge Cold War Monsters Rotting in a Field

Sophie and I went out to the Monino Aircraft Museum 1 hour outside Moscow. Wasn't easy, it snowed and we are pretty certain it delayed all the trains. It was cold and we were confused, Sophie even started to call it 'The Stupid Plane Place' instead of 'The Central Museum of the Air Forces at Monino'. But luckily we had become adept all the way to the bank at buying ourselves Kapoosta Peroski. They kept us going as we wandered around in the snow this distant Moscow suburb trying to find monsters US spies would have died to see.
We wouldn't have got there if it wasn't for this page.
They were worth it though, just sitting there, proud and ginormous, most of them had some world record set or still held. Often for just being the biggest so and so of all time. Some were very rusty, and there was a distant corner that we couldn´t get to that seemed to be a pile of bits that had fallen off or whole collapsed fly-no-mores.


You do the math...

5 comments:

  1. awesome perseverance intrepid travellers!

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  2. Those are some impressive aircrafts. Picture 1 looks the most menancing.
    - From Josh

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  3. Great sky beasts laid low. Unfortunate.

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  4. Just found out ... yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

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  5. I'm sooo excited at the news and I guess you are too!
    Thinking of you often and thoroughly enjoying your entertaining and evocative travellers tales.
    Big Giant Hugs.

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