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Amphibious aircraft with vertical take-off. The USSR built only two of them in 1976, one of which has crashed during transportation
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Sorry, no. That's a Bartini-Beriev VVA-14, a ground-effect "aircraft" or Ekranoplan. Definitely no vertical take-off.
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More precisely: it was a ground-effect aircraft which was supposed to have VTOL capabilities if it had been fitted with lift engines. Which never arrived.
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Apparently, you are both wrong (I mean you and the photographer)...
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