Buran-Energia

One of our readers repported me that the Mriya was at the Budapest’s airport in January 19, 2008, it was chartered to carry petrolum equipments to Oman (on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula).

Here are some pictures taken by Szabolcs Bakonyi:

Source: Index.hu

Myasishchev’s experimental machine factory plans to finish development of feasibility study for new aerospace system M-91 in March.

Said system consists of a delivery aircraft VM-T and a recoverable module, carried to near space up to 100-km heights, which spends 5 minutes under zero gravity and returns to airdrome. Space module is controlled by two pilots and can carry up to 14 passengers. Orbital journeys will be performed on a commercial basis. First commercial flight is scheduled for 2012, and Russian pilots expect up to 100 flights per year.

The VM-T Atlant was designed to carry pieces of the Energia launch vehicule and the Buran space shuttle from their factories (near Moscow) to the cosmodrome of Baikonur in the mid 80s.

Source: Novosti Kosmonavtiki

The Mriya landed at the Ben Gurion airport (Israel) on february 2. The plane was chartered by ACAS Israel in co-operation with ACI to transport outsized cargo from Israel to Africa.