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"Orbiter OK-2.01...was dismantled and sat gathering dust at the Tushina factory near Moscow for years until 2011 when it was reportedly moved to an aviation museum in Germany for restoration"

I just walked through this Buran model a few months ago at the Technikmuseum in Speyer, Germany. It's really there.

http://speyer.technik-museum.de/en



No, it's not. The one in Speyer is 0.02 OK-GLI, forgotten and found again in Bahrain (which is a whole story by itself).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK-GLI

(BTW: living in Speyer is very cool for tech-freaks: every once in while, they bring in a new plane, or a submarine...)


Wow, really? Thanks for that.

And yeah, the Speyer museums are totally amazing. What they did to that B747 just blew my mind.


The local story (in short) actually is: The director of the museum saw a documentary about a plane graveyard in Bahrain that was aired next to the Formula 1 race there. He saw the Buran in the background, contacted the relevant people and got one short after :).


There was one of the atmospheric test frames just sitting in a vacant block on the outskirts of Sydney about a decade ago. I climbed all over it with a friend one night.

(not my video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8tNp4bldzQ




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