I haven't information about aircrafts, but when Russian tank T-90 was tested in jungles, it get a engine crash, and a crew (wihout any help of technical personal) using two trees, rope and their hand reapired it.
"The buron was pretty much the russians trying to emulate the shuttle."
It was not only emulation, Buran (this name can be translated from Russian as "Snowstorm") had a lot of improvments. For example, it had more efficient heat shield, autopilot (Shuttles, haven't this feature, they can land only under man control) and so on. Clipper uses some ideas from Buran.
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I haven't information about aircrafts, but when Russian tank T-90 was tested in jungles, it get a engine crash, and a crew (wihout any help of technical personal) using two trees, rope and their hand reapired it.
"The buron was pretty much the russians trying to emulate the shuttle." It was not only emulation, Buran (this name can be translated from Russian as "Snowstorm") had a lot of improvments. For example, it had more efficient heat shield, autopilot (Shuttles, haven't this feature, they can land only under man control) and so on. Clipper uses some ideas from Buran.
Heh, I think, this spacecraft can be used about 50 times :) But, 25 times, is for certainity, that crew will come back ;)