OK-GLI… a test article and a journey

If you read my previous articles or are generally interested in the Buran program you may already know what OK-GLI was. A 1:1 Scale model of the Buran glider equipped with jet fengines and an actual flight crew. However I am pretty sure this article will feature some detail you may not have known. The […]

Heavy Lifting – The Energija Rocket

My first detailed article on a flying machine developed for the Buran program is about the mighty rocket that was made to carry the orbiter – the Energija In the mid 1970ies USSR was under pressure. Their moon program was canceled, the space race was lost and USA just had announced the next big thing […]

Road to Buran part II

After an overview on how it was decided to built a reusable space transportation system in my previous article I will now have a closer look at the actual development of the orbiter and the integration of the Energija Rocket System. So we are back in 1976. America was working on the STS system and […]

Paving the road to Buran

On September 17th 1976 a competely new type of spacecraft first rolled out its hangar. The United States Spaceship Enterprise was the first reusable spacecraft in history and the next big thing after US won the race to the moon in 1969. The NASA believed from now on space travel would be a day to […]

Welcome to Aviation World

This blog will be a source for true aviation geeks. I will Feature rare aircraft, spacecraft and aviation stories. The idea for the blog came up after I wrote a brief introduction of russias Buran Spacecraft Program on a aviation related facebook site. Within less than a day the post reached more than 100 likes […]