Via Flickr
I’m not sure what this thing is, or used to be, but whatever it is, I kind of want to salvage it and convert it into a house, or gCaptain office space. Unfortunately, I think it’s located somewhere in Russia.
Does anyone have the scoop on what this thing is, where it is, or who designed it?
UPDATE:
The gCaptain audience figured out pretty quick this thing was a Russian Meteor hydrofoil. And we also figured out who designed it,
Russian naval architect, Rostislav Evgenievich Alekseev.
Looks like a Russian hydroplane touring boat, as seen here: bit.ly/S0dfOK.
That is a passanger hydrofoil, http://www.hydrofoils.org/, indeed Russian product, but popular around Eastern Europe since 1980s
Definately one of their old hydofoils.
I was just thinking the same thing.
hydrofoil , high speed vessel.may not be high speed anymore but nice to have around for what you want.
Yep, you're right. They were used also in Romania, specially on Danube. Fast travelling…
Now, for strange reasons are not used anymore….
I wouldn't mind retrofitting that old hydrofoil. I remember riding on one of the US Navy's when they were in the fleet…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_class_hydrofoil.
Or here ('Greece, Italy, etc…) http://www.voyagevirtuel.info/greece/page/hydra62.php or http://fr.123rf.com/photo_2690064_un-hydroglisseur-arrive-dans-une-ville.html.
what jer fugleberg said.
Looks like this one : http://photos.linternaute.com/photo/1080681/1121159824/1656/hydroglisseur-hermes/.
Soviet built hydrofoil vessel type METEOR in production since 1961 (if you read Russian: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80_(%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B4)).
And more precisely here : http://deadmachinery.livejournal.com/298315.html.
Zaozersk maintenance fleet base near Perm (Ural)
yes very obvious… an old hydrofoil!
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=hydrofoils&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1600&bih=799&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=Ew-11kCG-SwecM:&imgrefurl=http://www.dipity.com/edy8s3/Transport-from-1940-onwards/&docid=4de5Jbr-fSaeKM&imgurl=http://www.hydrolance.net/Common/Hydrofoil-1.jpg&w=455&h=340&ei=hB4tUMToEKSt0QWdlICgDQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=728&vpy=492&dur=1686&hovh=194&hovw=260&tx=169&ty=115&sig=117266372368531122723&page=1&tbnh=130&tbnw=172&start=0&ndsp=32&ved=1t:429,r:27,s:0,i:160
Looks a little like a Russian foil that ran out if St Thomas…mmm a long time ago..It was called "The Rocket"
It’s an old Russian Hydrofoil retired a long time ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU0MFrlSDTE
Looks like one of the still-running tour vessels (yes, a hydrofoil as many are saying) that ply the Neva river in St. Petersburg. I saw a few on my trip there in May.
That same picture can be found in this article:
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2012/07/streamlined-soviet-passenger-hydrofoils.html
"Seriously amazing sight: retired "heroes of the riverways", rusting away in the autumn forest – near Kama Reservoir (Zaoszerskaya shipyards, near Perm):".
Looks like a Meteor class hydrofoil.
Looks like a Meteor class hydrofoil.
It looks like an abandoned EAGLE from Moon Base ALPHA.
Do you remember that spaceship-like orchestra barge that was in Rota during one of our visits with Shreveport? I had a cassette from them but lost it. Can't remember their name. I think they were from Pittsburgh and were touring Europe.
i remember when hydrofoils were touted as . . the future: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Bras_d%27Or_(FHE_400)
in the late 1980s i was gallivanting along the St Lawrence northeast of Quebec City looking for a campsite and saw this towering over a building there. . .
Looks like a large version of the Amsterdam canal boats http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amsterdam_canal_boat.jpg.
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2012/07/streamlined-soviet-passenger-hydrofoils.html
WANT!!! Thing looks bad-ass!
They still run them in Vietnam too. From Ho Chi Minh City to Vung Tau
we have one in amsterdam, leaving behind central station to the beach
It is *not* a hydrofoil but an ekranoplan. An ekranoplan is an overwater, ground-effect vehicle. Ground effect is prominent within approx. 0.5 wingspan in height above a surface:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun_class_ekranoplan
http://www.google.com/search?q=ekranoplan&sugexp=chrome,mod%3D9&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=1F0tUPbjKIOgiALzo4CIAQ&biw=910&bih=952&sei=2l0tUNKPG4rriwKrzYH4DA#q=ekranoplan&um=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=lnt&tbs=isz:l&sa=X&ei=2l0tUPWKIobciQKO0ICQDA&ved=0CCgQpwUoAQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=e56927f4681befb4&biw=910&bih=952
Hydrofoil passenger boat named “Meteor”
See here
http://translate.google.ru/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=ru&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fru.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F%25D0%259C%25D0%25B5%25D1%2582%25D0%25B5%25D0%25BE%25D1%2580_%28%25D1%2582%25D0%25B5%25D0%25BF%25D0%25BB%25D0%25BE%25D1%2585%25D0%25BE%25D0%25B4%29
aye defoo an old hydrofoil, good boats too.
Seen one of those running in Vladivostok when I was there in 2004.
its a passenger river cat.
They were extensively used on the Black Sea in the 1980′s as fast transport between coastal cities. I have seen many of them when I sailed in that area with Shell Tankers in 1982/83
It's a Russian Meteor Class Hydrofoil:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MeteorHydrofoil.jpg
It is an abondon Hydrofoil.
What? I thought it was a cold war version of the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile.
looks like one of those hovercraft ferrys
http://test123-destroyer77.blogspot.com/2012/07/streamlined-soviet-passenger-hydrofoils.html
It’s a russian-made hydrofoil named Raketa.
The same boat in Greece is named Flying Dolphin.
I think you might need to get the prescription for your glasses updated, Robert. It’s not even close to looking like the ekranoplan.
Come on guys, cant you see the markings on it. It was Captain Kirks first space shuttle command. Scotty designed the sub warp engines to work on a secret Scotish family
formula of a brownish hi charged particles of octane liquid fuel that have been in his ancestors family for hundreds of years! It will make you fly hi & fast if applied correctly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxNX4pDHkt4&feature=related
It's in here somewhere: http://englishrussia.com/.
http://cs5490.userapi.com/v5490635/1cc/pJQmBGCChSk.jpg
USSR built hydrofoil “Ракета” (Rocket) or “Метеор” (Meteor).
Shipyard in Ukraine (Former USSR Republic): http://morye.kafa.crimea.ua/
is in bulgaria and it is a restaurant.