{"id":88757,"date":"2024-07-17T23:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/beriev-a-40-albatross\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T23:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T13:00:11","slug":"how-did-the-beriev-a-40-albatross-earn-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=88757","title":{"rendered":"How Did The Beriev A-40 Albatross Earn Its Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    The collapse of the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/soviet-union\/\">Soviet Union<\/a> in 1991 resulted in the cancelation of many interesting Soviet aviation projects, including the Beriev A-40\/A-42 Albatross. When the Beriev A-40\/A-42 was shelved, one prototype was completed, and a second was 70% or 80% complete. The Soviets were leaders in a range of remarkable water-based aircraft, like the Lun-class ekranoplans and <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/beriev-be-2500-guide\/\">the massive proposed Beriev Be-2500 ekranoplan<\/a>.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The A-40\/42 amphibious aircraft is one of the largest amphibious aircraft built, and Russia has attempted to revive it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1841,408,412,309,894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-amphibious-aircraft","category-history","category-military","category-russia","category-soviet-union"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88758,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88757\/revisions\/88758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}