86. Doilies - page 398
86. Doilies - page 398
The ekranoplan reminded Milgrim of the Spruce Goose, which he'd toured in Long Beach , as a high school student,
Did Milgrim live in California at the time, or was this a transcontinental visit from New York ?
but with its wings largely amputated. Weird Soviet hybrids, the ekranoplans; they flew at tremendous speeds, about fifteen feet above the water, incapable of greater altitude. They had been designed to haul a hundred tons of troops or cargo, very quickly over the Black or Baltic Sea. This one , an A-90 Orlyonok, had, like all the others been built in the Volga Shipyard, at Nishni Novogrod.
Howard Hughes' giant seaplane the, Hughes Flying Boat H-4 (HK-1) Hercules ("Spruce Goose"), was moved to a new museum in McMinnville about 20 miles south west of Portland, Oregon in 1990.
Evergreen Aviation Museum
500 NE Captain Michael King Smith Way
McMinnville, Oregon 97128
Google Map - Evergreen Aviation Museum
Google Maps Satellite view of Nizhni Novogrod
Wikipedia article on the A-90_Orlyonok ekranoplan (ground effect aeroplane)
Multi-engined Spuce Goose sized ekranoplan - see English in Russia blog: Ekranoplan
