Mar 25
Earliest design of the Buran "BOR/ВОР" (Беспилотный Орбитальный Ракетоплан/Unpiloted Orbital Rocketplane), compared to the the Final design of the Buran.
(BOR-5 No. 502 at the Central Air Force Museum in Russia)
The BOR-5 model flew six times, first flight taking place on July 4 1984, while its last flight took place on June 22 1988. Only two of the six BOR-5 Test model remain.
(BOR-5 No. 505 at the Technik Museum Speyer in Germany)
#its doing a lot better then the LKS atleast it got built🥀🥀🥀#soviet space program#Buran#Energiya-Buran#btw the final Version of the buran was first thought of in 1965!!!!#ofcourse building it and getting all the engineers to agree on it was the hard part#BOR-5#Buran BOR#i wanted to do a post on the LKS but i thought i should honor the BOR first#i love the buran program have i told you guys that already...#poor thing someone should atleast fix its paint job..#aviation history#aviation
