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Sean being the Russian nutter, whoops I'll join his club

Oh yes what a beastie ..... how old are they now ?

Splitpin wrote:

QUOTE (Splitpin @ May 6 2014,4:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Oh yes what a beastie ..... how old are they now ?

1950's design and first flight so at least 50+

Very nice aircraft too

And they're incredibly loud too!

Also, as the Tu-114 was derived from the Tu-95, guess what the fastest airliner was for a while!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-114
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastest_prope...driven_aircraft

Finally, to add to the Tupolev speed demons...

Since the retirement of the VC-10 and the Concorde from airline service, the Tu-154 is currently the world's fastest jetliner still in airline service.

Propelling yourself threw the air, so loud it was, caused nausea and dropped many .... now I wonder that were airsickness come from

Back in my old FS9 Classic, I once set up a SARO Princess for AI, using a Tu-114 soundset, then formated on it in the JBK Bristol Brabazon, just to see what it sounded like
What a glorious racket - 18 engines (10 t/p, 8 piston) driving 18 props of which 16 were c/r)

I was surprised how small the SARO Princess really was !

Hmm..."compact", maybe, like a 380 bosom

Two classic photos I have here, one at Farnbourgh Airshow debut , have an article on how they might use it even with double hulls and in that book has one coming up on a slipway and it seems the water shrunk it

Those Bears are still in service after all these years and still violating NATO/Japanese air space lol...and who thought this stuff would end with cold war although the main difference is NATO pilots probably do not share their Playboy centrefolds since you can buy those in Russia too.

Arr back to the good ole Cold war days, least the Bear is a snazzy looking machine, you can't help not to like it.

Ah, and thanks to Owen's image above, we now have the flora ("Moss") in addition to the fauna ("Bear"). That's the Tu-126.

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ May 8 2014,2:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Arr back to the good ole Cold war days, least the Bear is a snazzy looking machine, you can't help not to like it.

Yep still probably has a tail gunner lol. BTW I've been shot down by them in DCS lol.

SUBS17 wrote:

QUOTE (SUBS17 @ May 9 2014,7:51 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yep still probably has a tail gunner

Lineage from the Boeing B29/TU-4 copy, Antonov Ilyushin even inherited many features from the Boeing, makes it funny its the counterpart to the B-52.

B52 had a tail gun.

SUBS17 wrote:

QUOTE (SUBS17 @ May 10 2014,9:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

B52 had a tail gun.

And I thought you were just sticking to the bad boys.