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Chernobyl's Legacy

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kilo delta

Charter Member 2015
It's coming up on 25 years since the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown (26 April 1986) and while much of the area is a no-go zone, there are still many who are almost morbidly fascinated in viewing,first hand, the results of the disaster.
I recently came across the following link in which a young Russian female biker provides a spellbinding,mesmerising and thought provoking account of Chernobyl's legacy by way of a photographic tour of the areas affected...

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-land-of-the-wolves/author.html
 
Chernobyl has always fascinated me...I would like to go there myself, eventually...hopefully, before they finish building the new shield around the facility.
 
Cool site! In the US we had a nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I fly there every so often, and the visual pattern takes you right over the facility. You can see the two "dead" reactors. Hope you don't mind the pics.

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Interesting pics,Bone.:) I'm surprised that air traffic is allowed so close to the plant. Are they not set in an exclusion zone?


One thing that's definitely on my "bucket list" is to visit the Chernobyl region and also some of the old Soviet derelict airbases.
 
kilo delta said:
Interesting pics,Bone.:) I'm surprised that air traffic is allowed so close to the plant. Are they not set in an exclusion zone?


One thing that's definitely on my "bucket list" is to visit the Chernobyl region and also some of the old Soviet derelict airbases.
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1. No exclusion zone.

2. I'll go with you to Russia, it's on my list, too.
 
Bone said:
I believe they're EC-130's.
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Cheers! Yep...EC-130J Commando Solo III (7 built)


Maybe if you ask nicely they'll let you take some pics up close...interior hopefully....just asking on behalf of my brother... Phenm Quey

:p :d
 
kilo delta said:
Cheers! Yep...EC-130J Commando Solo III (7 built)


Maybe if you ask nicely they'll let you take some pics up close...interior hopefully....just asking on behalf of my brother... Phenm Quey

:p :d
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Lol. Yes, I'll tell them I'm there on behalf of Phenm Quey, and I'm sure they'll let me in...LOL.
 
The pics on that Chernobyl website look a lot like scenes in the Life After People TV series on the History Channel.
 
kilo delta said:
Cheers! Yep...EC-130J Commando Solo III (7 built)


Maybe if you ask nicely they'll let you take some pics up close...interior hopefully....just asking on behalf of my brother... Phenm Quey

:p :d
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I was a crewmember on the Navy C-121J "Project Jenny" Connies that were the forerunner of the
Commando Solo mission aircraft.

We flew missions out of Tan Son Nhut and DaNang during my time with OASU/VX-8 back in
1966 and 67.

Those 130's most likely have a lot more gear than we had on the Connies but they certainly aren't as pretty! :)

Paul
 
@ Rami: Yep..I've seen those pics but didn't post the link as the HDR effect the photographer used in post processing hurts my eyes! :d

@ GypsyBaron: A pretty interesting role,I bet! I was aware of the Navy C-121J/EC-121J's.....beautiful aircraft.:)
Hadn't seen that particular variant of EC-130 before,however.
 
Chernobyl

It must be a popular stop for Google Earth too. Someone has made a 3D update of the old nuclear site there. You can see many of the locations in the photos from a bird's eye view with Google Earth.

I remember watching the nuclear plant burn and smoke on the evening news and the uncertainty of the situation back in 1986. I felt sorry for the MI-26 aircrews who dumped sand on the conflagration and the poor firemen that tried to fight it, only to die within days from the radiation.
 
Jagdflieger said:
It must be a popular stop for Google Earth too. Someone has made a 3D update of the old nuclear site there. You can see many of the locations in the photos from a bird's eye view with Google Earth.

I remember watching the nuclear plant burn and smoke on the evening news and the uncertainty of the situation back in 1986. I felt sorry for the MI-26 aircrews who dumped sand on the conflagration and the poor firemen that tried to fight it, only to die within days from the radiation.
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Yet..I remember it well,too. The national tv/radio stations gave regular weather updates for the expected fallout.
All of the helicopters involved in the immediate clean-up are laid up near the plant (except for one Mi-26 that crashed into the plant when it's rotor clipped cables while it was dumping concrete over the sarcophagus). Many of the aircrew have since died due to radiation poisoning.
 
I went to Belgium for a couple of years during the summer of '86 and remember the people there being worried about radiation spreading west.
 
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