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Re: The Soviet Stratospheric Planes Fairbairn Associates
Orval Fairbairn (orfairbairn@earthlink.net) 2014/05/12 18:36

In article <PilotJedi.db6cbb0@aviationbanter.com>,
 PilotJedi <PilotJedi.db6cbb0@aviationbanter.com> wrote:

> The Myasishchev M-55 (NATO reporting name: Mystic-B) is a high altitude
> geophysical research aircraft developed by OKB Myasishchev in the Soviet
> Union, similar in purpose to the Lockheed ER-2, but with a twin boom
> fuselage and tail surface design. It is a twin-engined development of
> the Myasishchev M-17 Stratosphera with a higher maximum take-off
> weight.
>
> The first aircraft of this series took off August 16, 1988. By 1993,
> there were six examples built.
>
> Full album is here: http://tinyurl.com/myr3pz2

... sometimes referred to as the "Usky-Twosky."

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