{"id":47815,"date":"2022-06-24T23:41:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T21:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=47815"},"modified":"2024-06-24T02:19:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T00:19:02","slug":"a-decrepit-aeronautical-museum-with-some-aviation-gems-in-terrible-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/24\/a-decrepit-aeronautical-museum-with-some-aviation-gems-in-terrible-shape\/","title":{"rendered":"A decrepit aeronautical museum with some aviation gems in terrible shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making an aeronautical museum is not an easy thing, since abundant resources are needed to keep the aircraft well preserved.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/29\/davis-monthan-afb-a-bus-tour-of-the-worlds-largest-aircraft-graveyard\/\">Davis-Monthan AFB: A bus tour of the world\u2019s largest aircraft graveyard<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/07\/04\/aralsk-7-abandoned-ships-in-a-desert-and-the-dark-secret-of-a-communist-regime\/\">Aralsk-7: abandoned ships in a desert and the dark secret of a communist regime<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/russecrets\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russkiye Tayny<\/a> (Russian Secrets) published <strong>a video about an aeronautical museum located in the Kaluga region, in Russia<\/strong>, southwest of Moscow, a few months ago. To tell the truth, when you start watching the video, you might wonder if it is a museum, because<strong> it looks more like an aircraft graveyard, due to the poor state of conservation of the material on display:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tS_vbCrYyk0\" title=\"\u0417\u0430\u0431\u0440\u043e\u0448\u0435\u043d\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0432\u043e\u0435\u043d\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0442\u0435\u0445\u043d\u0438\u043a\u0430. \u041a\u0430\u043a \u0440\u0436\u0430\u0432\u0435\u0435\u0442 \u0441\u0442\u043e\u044f\u043d\u043a\u0430 \u0441\u043f\u0438\u0441\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u0441\u0430\u043c\u043e\u043b\u0435\u0442\u043e\u0432 \u0438 \u0432\u0435\u0440\u0442\u043e\u043b\u0435\u0442\u043e\u0432, \u043c\u0430\u0448\u0438\u043d\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If I'm not mistaken,<strong> this museum is the Medyn airfield<\/strong>, which they talk about in <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetomoscow.com\/moscow-for-aviation-enthusiasts-army-2020\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this post of the Bridge to Moscow blog<\/a>. It is 180 kilometers from the Russian capital and has 39 aircraft.<strong> The devices are outdoors, with what that means in a country with such harsh winters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52170464928_c9554407fe_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The museum has gems from different eras of Soviet and Russian aviation, including <strong>some Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25s<\/strong> (the fastest fighter built by the USSR).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52170464888_b4b19d3193_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The state of conservation of these planes is somewhat pitiful.<\/strong> It is difficult to distinguish if they are there to be preserved or if they have been abandoned.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52170460896_4db33ae4ea_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>There are also some old Soviet drones<\/strong>, like the Tupolev Tu-141 Strizh (in the center) from the 1970s. I don't know what model is the one on the right.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52169440147_a5420a315c_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The museum also has land vehicles<\/strong>, which seem better preserved than aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52170940000_6fd8a7de03_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the hangars of the airfield there are some surprises, like this German Heinkel He-111 bomber<\/strong> from World War II, with the glass of the cockpit broken.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52170704604_2a63d2c848_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making an aeronautical museum is not an easy thing, since abundant resources are needed to keep the aircraft well preserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,16888],"tags":[8342,16902,16905,15864,10731,11562,16904],"class_list":["post-47815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-museums","tag-heinkel-he-111","tag-kaluga","tag-medyn-airfield","tag-mikoyan-gurevich-mig-25","tag-russia","tag-sukhoi-su-22","tag-tupolev-tu-141-strizh"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 05:59:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}