Twin-Boom Aircraft at Komsomolsk-on-Amur

[Buster11]

Probably a question that dates me as a spotter from the 1940s and now pretty out of date, but maybe someone here could come up with an answer. Looking on Google Earth at the Sukhoi airfield at Komsomolsk-on-Amur there seem to be two different types of twin-boom aircraft that I can't put names to. Three look as if they might be roughly Fairchild Packet-size and appear to have an additional horizontal surface connecting the booms, as well as a tailplane. The other is smaller and has a swept-back leading edge and straight trailing edge.

They are to the east of the southern end of the runway.

Must go; there's a chap with an odd accent on the phone...

[DaveReidUK]

Looking on Google Earth at the Sukhoi airfield at Komsomolsk-on-Amur

The larger ones are examples of the Sukhoi S-80:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/zfwAAOSwYaFWd2xk/s-l500.jpg

[treadigraph]

That's a new type to me - Burt Rutanski!

[jensdad]

Just had a quick look: are they Frogfoots (or Frogfeet?)? As well as the two immediately behind the S-80's there are thirteen more of them due south of there, sitting behind what looks like a Tu-154.


An interesting airfield, there's a railway line crossing the runway!

[treadigraph]

I think they are probably Beriev Be-103s.

https://doc8643.com/static/img/aircrafts/3D/B103.jpg

[DaveReidUK]

I think they are probably Beriev Be-103s.

I agree - now I've stopped looking for twin-boomed aircraft. :O

The BE-103 is built by KnAAPO at Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

[Buster11]

Thanks for the rapid and interesting replies. I did wonder whether some were Frogfeet, but the S-80 and Be-103 are new ones on me.

[barry lloyd]

...and here's one in its natural habitat - Gelendzhik

http://i66.tinypic.com/2eocf2f.jpg

and yes, that is a Mermaid (Beriev A-40) in the background!