Buran atmospheric test flight (1986 USSR) PART 2 

The Soviets were very good at Maths. I should know - I’m married to one! 😊

First off autopilots are not that just machines crunching the numbers from data and making the correct adjustments to flight surfaces. As far as the Soviets abilities to pull it off they already had a lot of experience from unmanned craft with all the space probes they had launched. The space shuttle was also flown mostly on auto pilot. The entire landing sequence was on computer control until it entered heading alignment cone where the commander took over at some point.

NASA should have fitted detachable jet engines to their shuttle to save all that messing about attaching it to the top of a 747 for transit moves.

@@22pcirish The space shuttle was NOT a good airplane. Limited space for jet fuel even if you did.

@@rael5469 True enough, but for a ferry trip from Edwards back to Florida, demountable engines and a fuel tank in the cargo bay may have been feasible.

​@@johneliadis9689 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-po2BPfbfKCc.html

@@johneliadis9689 This vehicle is like Enterprise shuttle. Both are full-scale prototypes. But Enterprise is only glider, but BTS-002 is an airplane.

@@johneliadis9689 Nope. "Originally, Enterprise had been intended to be refitted for orbital flight to become the second space-rated orbiter in service." But... No. BTS-002 is airplane, similar to Buran orbiter. Buran flew into space. Once, but flew.

​@@johneliadis9689 It only flew once, but it did get to space, completed two orbits and automatically landed. Iirc, the shuttle was never capable of fully autonomous flight. One big difference was, that Buran was not fitted with engines. All work was done by the Energia rocket.

@johneliadis9689 It's not a copy at all. Its design was very different and more advanced.

Yes, it is because at the beginning, the Buran should have had also two jet engines. This is to have a much longer glide path, allowing him to land better and have more chances to land in a controlled way in Russia or in a runway of the Soviet Republics. Initially, the engines had to be two Dobrynin RD-7, the same as the Tu-22 Blinder. Afterwards the two atmospheric engines were canceled. The buran had an impressive autopilot and navigation system for the time. During the tests, the space shuttle surprised everyone when, all alone, it decided to reverse a turn during a Landing procedure, because the wind had changed. When they saw her turn, the engineers thought now to malfunction and prepared to say goodbye forever to the shuttle. Instead the Buran landed perfectly alone thanks to his computer and without any crew intervention (and because there was no one on board).

So the jet engines were later removed before launch?

killajakez no, canceled. AFAIK the jet engines were also for the transfer of the shuttles from the landing sites in the Soviet Union to the launch site at Baikanur, but then they preferred to use the An-225 for this duty. The shuttle with jet engines is the BTS-002 OK-GLI, today at Speyer. And the engines were AL-31, not rd-7. Afaik the Buran and Ptichka were without jet engine.

Russian space shuttle has 4 jet engine for take off and flight like airplane while USA space shuttle has none engine.

Only one of 8 built burans had the engines. It was only for landing tests. It's now in Speyer Germany in a museum.

Один из счастливчиков. Всё равно, что увидеть выход на сушу первого двоякодышащего существа или старт Гагарина...

@@nhhfdyhvdfghhв какой-то степени, да..., мимо гагаринской стартовой позиции не раз и не два бегал марш-бросок. Он у нас как ориентир. Там рядом метров 600 была шахтная пусковая площадка 141 нашей части, я туда в караул заступал. Выходили к воротам смотреть пуски, видели как провожают космонавтов. А Буран возили на старт и обратно в МИК, на моей памяти, раза три. Очень медленно...

Not only in automatic mode, but also with participation, as it is now fashionable to say: with an artificial intelligence algorithm. When landing, Buran independently changed the set landing trajectory and entered from the other side. Upon further investigation, it turned out that the Buran had suffered from gusts of wind and changed the landing trajectory taking into account the weather and chose a new optimal trajectory. There was such a civilization: the USSR.

@@user-pq5hl9wn6t а сейчас что? Тоже много всего хорошего.

If the Soviet Union hadn’t disintegrated the continued flights of the Buran and her sister shuttles would have made the USAs push for a shuttle replacement that more viable and probably would have given the Venture Star a lot more time to develop without fear of cancellation.

That sounds like a story all on its own. How did a Russian one of a kind space shuttle find its home in a German museum?

@@captainotto It spent some time on display at an airshow venue in Moscow. Was then purchased by an Australian astronaut who shipped it to Sydney via Sweden where it was part of an aerospace museum type place. Then it spent some time in Bahrain on display & was finally purchased by the place in Speyer Germany where it's being suitably maintained & looked after, apparently while in Australia it became a bit neglected.

Oh boy wait til u see the suckoi T4

N1 is easily the most soviet

всё советское украдено с запада

Ha ha ha, you said it right 4449.

Totally agree Fantom F4 proved it

Not true. Once I mounted one thousand million billion rockets to a brick and it didn’t fly so I’m afraid you are WRONG.

Buran melhor do que os Ônibus espaciais dos EUA

C-5

I just watched the AN 225 and I doubt that could have ever been able to launch in fight, so close to the tails!

The Russian space programme is decades before the US . they now live and spend MONTS in the space where they have MANY stations... All you see from Russia is VERY OLD compared with the newest they do not show. The Russians unlike the Americans DO NOT GO OUT and show what they have because they are so much ahead all other nation (DECADES) that they do not want interference.

Soviet space shuttle program was way ahead than western power combined

@@dharaneedharandme020 да!🤟👍

"A test vehicle was constructed with four jet engines mounted at the rear; this vehicle is usually referred to as OK-GLI, or as the "Buran aerodynamic analogue". The jets were used to take off from a normal landing strip, and once it reached a designated point, the engines were cut and OK-GLI glided back to land. This provided invaluable information about the handling characteristics of the Buran design, and significantly differed from the carrier plane/air drop method used by the United States and the Enterprise test craft." -- W'pedia

Typical Soviet Health & Safety 😅

I’ve never failed to be amazed at how the DC9 / MD-80 derívate series of aircraft manage to fly with their impossibly thin wings - I used to think of them as flying pencils (don’t ask!). Yes, I’m astonished at seeing Buran flying under the power of 4 jet engines (anybody know WHAT engines were used?) - but…..damn! It DID fly…….😮

Flying brick 🧱

I'm shocked the engines had enough thrust

​@@setituptoblowitup Flying brick hit your head

@@kissthis5361 yess more than once 🔂

I watched it at the Museeum,. it´s just like a very cheap plane made of thing sheet metal...no insulation whatsoever inside, it was never made to fly in space. It was built to develop and certify the automatic landing system. If you watch it at the Museeum, to me it´s a miracle it was able to fly. It is full of cables, really crazy.. must have been all analog electronics.In the cargo bay there is a large fuel tankt for the jet engines and a huge electronic compartment...

This is a flight test article - similar in function to STS' Enterprise. The crafts capable of spaceflight look very similar to the American space shuttle.

LOL!!!!!! That's hilarious!!!

That's because this footage shows one of the prototypes (better know as the Analog Buran), not the Buran that flew into orbit. Once...

Laughable......Hahahahahaha!!!

traces of a bygone highly developed civilization

@@pejtepivo спасибо за такой ответ..Как больно сейчас вспоминать всё, чем мы жили и гордились глубиной силы и духа и целей и ума..

CSK#1!

а я в 86 году по пути из детского сада вместе с мамкой по 2 часа в очередях стоял за продуктами первой необходимости. На всю жизнь запомнил.. Вот это страна была!!

@@nd5301 и в каком же городе такое было? и каких вам продуктов первой необходимости не хватало?

@@user-pq5hl9wn6t в Новосибирске. Мясо покупали только с заднего входа у знакомого завсклада. В ближайшем овощном - одно гнилье продавалось, поэтому картошку и прочие нештяки выращивали на даче и на заводском поле. Туалетная бумага - по блату и про запас, иначе газета. Купить что-то из мебели - целое событие - только по ордеру через знакомых товароведов. Просто зайдя с улицы всего этого было не купить.. Черт. да у меня на антрисолях до начала нулевых находились сраные лампочки, купленные по случаю про запас еще в 80-х..

@@nd5301 Дичь какую-то несёте. Новосибирск-крупный промышленный город и снабжение у него было гораздо лучше чем в обычном районном городе. Но, если вам конечно СССР был поперек ваших яиц, то конечно в вашей голове могли запомниться не целостные картины с положительными и отрицательными моментами, а сплошной негатив с приумноженным на ваше эмоциональное восприятие. Наверно у вас дома на книжной полке стоят произведения лживого антисоветчика солженицина и ему подобных писак.

@@user-pq5hl9wn6t Вот за что я люблю совкодрочеров - так это за то, что им все божья роса. "вы все врете, в магазинах всего было завались" Доказывать что-то, приводить примеры - бесполезное занятие.. Всего хорошего..

It was never useful, it never got passed test flights making only 2 unmanned orbits in 1 test flight.

@@chezman3892 from what I have seen on videos while it was once between 95 and 97% ready for flight now it is little more than a gutted shell. It would likely be cheaper to build from scratch :(

It is unlikely to resurface since the Russians have set back the course of their nation by 50 years due to their recent actions.

@Funky Monk right, that is why it only made 2 laps and wasn't trusted to carry humans........and never flew again.

@@chezman3892 Ever heard of the collapse of the soviet union?

350kmh+

Greg Munro I am from Russia. Unfortunately, the Buran is a war machine . Peace be with you !!!

So what, It was tested only once in space. And the American and the Soviet both use several of their space program in spying. But they will probably one day cooperate, the day we get official enemies in outer space

Everyone except China combined and we got the largest most majestic Space Sation ever. When we raced each other we put man on the Moon, you decide what's better.

@American Israeli superiority Head out your ass man. The airframe was copied. The way the Buran launched was different. It could take off like a plane and fly normally. It has ejector seats. It could be landed without a crew and was automated. The documents were public about the US space shuttle. In that case the U.S copied Soviet Yak-141 technology into the F-35 with your logic.

@American Israeli superiority it is a copy, but a better and more advanced one

Riccardo Smirnov You're right ! This aircraft is an analogue of a spacecraft .

Still a Buran test article

It is a buran test article. Buran refers to the entire space program, not OK-1K1.

You get a know it all everywhere. Ignore him.

Exactly.

Умный не заметит, дурак не поймет.

не только возможно, скорее без мата вообще никуда))

Вопросов по термоизоляции не было.Достаточно сказать,что "Буран" потерял 5 плиток при входе в атмосферу Земли.А вот Шатлы теряли по 20-25 плиток.Один Шатл поэтому и сгорел.Позже Франция просила технологии производства термозащиты,но СССР не дал согласия.Кстати,на "Буране" было два вида термозащитных плиток-черные углеродные и белые кремниевые (силиконовые).

@@user-qx3vi1kv6y тогда мы многое умели. Когда смотришь на буран понятно почему амеры тогда нас уважали. Жаль что буран так себя и не показал

@@user-bv4sp9lw1e меченый и беспалый зато себя показали , и мы, как бараны равнодушно позволившие разрушить свою Великую страну

Плитки изобрели в институте прикладной химии в Ленинграде, который снесли уже. Они все пронумерованы были

​​​​@@user-uo6nd4pl5m Все "Великие" рано или поздно (лучше рано) разрушаются, остаются только "Нармальные". Гнилое государство - империя зла. Вас как зомбировали с рождения, так вы из этого состояния не как не можете выйти даже на старости лет... Сочувствую...

Испытательная программа более гибкая у нас получалась и шанс потерять корабль-аналог много меньше.

Ничего не дороже. Для оснащения двигателями нужны только двигатели, а для сбрасывания целый самолёт.

@@user-fy9ow6nu1r Ну конечно же Вы правы. Ведь гораздо дешевле спроэктировать и смонтировать системы крепления, питания и управления двигателями, чем только крепление к самолету. Подумаешь , навернеться все это в случае неудачи, ещё раз сделают. Зато цельный самолет лишний раз летуть не будет.

Какие ошибки?

A whole lot of hype for something that never was or will be.

@@FrankieFatHands69 Hangar collapse, what an honorable death. But weren’t there two of these..? Here’s the video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--q7ZVXOU3kM.html

@Frank Reynolds Thanks for the explanation Frank. At first I thought it was a Chernobyl video with all the protective gear.

The NASA Orbiter had retractable gear too. All space planes that intend to land on runways must have gear, and they can't have fixed gear!

@@noecarrier5035 The landing gear in the American shuttle could not retract, only drop

Oh. I guess they wouldn't really need to retract, would they? Never really occurred to me that they couldn't.

You did not see Buran in a museum. You saw a gliding aerodynamic model built similar to Buran.

@Frank Reynolds Thanks if U your comment was true or not. So the Soviets built 2 shuttles housed in a hanger where the roof collapsed and the other the door could not open? Very interesting.

"A test vehicle was constructed with four jet engines mounted at the rear; this vehicle is usually referred to as OK-GLI, or as the "Buran aerodynamic analogue". The jets were used to take off from a normal landing strip, and once it reached a designated point, the engines were cut and OK-GLI glided back to land. This provided invaluable information about the handling characteristics of the Buran design, and significantly differed from the carrier plane/air drop method used by the United States and the Enterprise test craft." -- W'pedia

Печально но правда…..😢

- И РФ не будет, а всех хрюзге вырежут - чтобы всем неповадно было угрожать человечеству ядеркой.