Monday 2 September 2013

(all photos copyright Ken Duffey)

A walk in the park......

View of VDNK Park from our window at the Cosmos Hotel - note the Ostankono TV tower still shrouded in low cloud.

Cosmos hotel - with its statue of Charles De Gaulle.

The 'Space Needle' and Ostankino TV tower.

Inside VDNK Park......

Yak-42.

Vostok rocket.

The fountains were switched on as we walked back...

The main entrance to VDNK.

Monino Museum

Newly painted entrance.

Il-2.

BI-1 rocket fighter.

The mighty Mil V-12 - in the wrong colours!

Another mis-painted exhibit - the prototype T10 Flanker.

The B-25 Mitchell has a new paint finish.

Su-17UM.

MiG-21 'Analog' - testbed for the Tu-144 wing shape.

Tu-22M3 - still with the concrete blocks holding the nose down.

MiG-25

A new arrival - the prototype Yak-130.

It looks totally different to the production version.

Ka-25 ASW helicopter.

Yak-38 ..........

Yak-38M - note the differences.

The Yak-23 has a fresh coat of paint.

.... as has the Mi-24 'Hind-A'.

Newly unwrapped - Sukhoi Su-31 aerobatic machine.

The Kamov 'Sever-2' aerosleigh now has its skis fitted.

Scale replica of the ANT-25.

Sopwith Triplane.

Voisin.

Ilyushin Il-10 awaiting restoration.

Neat looking MiG-9.

Yak-141 Supersonic VTOL design.

Lavochkin's last fighter - the La-250 'Anakonda'.

Slightly more successful - the La-15 'Fantail'.

MiG Ye-152M painted as the record-breaking Ye-166.

Obligatory photo of the Sukhoi T4 'Sotka'.

Another wrongly-painted Flanker - the T10M prototype of the Su-35.

Tucked away in a corner - the Be-32 has had a lick of paint.

Recently finished main building at Monino.

Departing from nearby Chkalovsky - an Il-76 of the PLAAF - presumably the 1st August display team support aircraft.

© Ken Duffey September 2013