Buran News

To mark the anniversary of the website and to wait until the new DVD version of the encyclopaedia in April 2008, I decrease the price of the Buran encyclopaedia of 25% so it is 28$ instead of 38$.

Good download !

Hello dear reader,

today it’s been 1 year since the buran.fr and buran-energia.com websites are online. The website transcend my expectations, indeed when I began I wanted to publish only few pages on Buran (in French) and let it like that, moreover I though I will had only few visitors per day (niche subject !).

But, in fact the site contains thousands of pages (2 langages merged), has a traffic of ~350-400 unique visitor per day and I still have lots of document to publish.

At the begining the site should have been only in french, but due to the poor quantity of interesting sources on internet I decided to translate it, but I’m not bilingual and some pages contains grammar errors or wrong sentences, if an English-speaking guy could point them to me I will appreciate.

This success is also yours because you made it happen, Thank you !

2 graphs to illustrate the life of the site during the past year:
72 250 unique visitors

585 500 pages read

Come back in few days for a little surprise!

A reader of Livejournal.com recently took pictures of the shuttle 2.01. These pictures were taken from a boat on a canal around the Tushino airbase. We can see the 2.01 model, without wings, covered by a tarpaulin as the only protection.

This 2 new modelisations are in-touch with the SPIRAL project.

The first one is a detailed model of a BOR-4 (orbital plane without pilot), we can see the different on-board equipment, actuators and engines.

The second picture is one of an orbital plane mounted on top of a Soyouz rocket. This combat plane was part of the SPIRAL program and could put into orbit by a launching plane GSR or simply by a semiorka rocket.