November 30, 2010
Blog ArchivesAbandoned Aircraft, Airfields, Airbases and Airport Terminals
Aircraft connect us with distant parts of the world in ways that ships and railways never could, and have been adapted for a variety of uses. But they have a shelf-life and are often recycled when their time comes. Sometimes, however, they’re abandoned along with the airfields that once served them.
Blow Them Up, Comrade: Russia’s Inflatable Military
Russia is stockpiling inflatable versions of its current planes, tanks and surface-to-air missiles in a bid to confuse satellites and aerial reconnaissance systems, at a cost of almost £2,000 per blow-up model.
5 of the World’s Most Imposing Statues
It’s not every day you come across sculptures that make the Statue of Liberty look small. But in more recent years dozens of immense statues have shot up all over the world demonstrating that – whatever their inherent symbolism – size does matter. Here is a selection of the most gigantic and awe inspiring effigies on the planet.
Stalin’s “Railway of Bones”
It was doomed to be an unfinished project that would claim almost 15,000 lives. Today the remains of Stalin’s vast railway, which was set to run within the Arctic Circle from Salekhard to Igarka, can be found rusting in the icy tundra. History would later remember it as the “railway of bones”.
Abandoned MiGs & Other Aircraft: Former Soviet Hardware From Iraq to Russia
“The Mig” and all the aircraft variants that name covers, has become a veritable icon of the Cold War. The vast number built by Russia over the last half century and heavily exported means that, while some remain airborne, others lie derelict or destroyed from Siberia to Iraq and beyond. Here are just a few that continue to languish on in various states of disrepair.