Eastern Bloc weekend

[Alfashark]

Spent the weekend coming to grips with some Heavy Metal from the other side of the Iron Curtain - the SCS Tupolev Tu-134A/A3, and the Project Tupolev team's Ilyushin IL-62M.
Both are freeware, but are quite demanding... there is no Autostart, no english tooltips, no GPS, and no conventional Nav instruments.
The SCS Tu-134A, VVS (Russian Airforce) livery.




SCS Tu-134A3, Malev Hungarian Airlines out of Charles De Gaulle




IL-62M NATO reporting name "Classic" in DDR (The former East Germany) InterFlug livery, enroute to Leipzig-Halle




IL-62M-VIP in Aviaenergo colours, headed for the UK

[Ian Warren]

Tell ya one thing that Tu134 , a big thumbs up on that one , a very impressive model , the Il62 havnt tried that one , but we had couple important visits to Christchurch in the mid to late 70s .. since the VC-10 was a regular or least the RAF transport it was good to compare the both although never at the same time ... personally the VC won hands down , but Ilyushin replied with the Il-76 .. now that thing really is one pretty aircraft !

[Alfashark]

Yeah theres still a few conspiracy stories about the likeness of the VC and the 62 , although the 62 is a physically much bigger machine, and without the short-field capability of the VC...
I'm also told the 62 is still the largest aircraft to have entirely manual controls... no hydraulics, no fly-by-wire - just cables and torque tubes and torsion bars, quite a feat for a 198 seat tubeliner

On another note, getting married has all sorts of upside, like the oddball in-laws you get, luckily I now have a Russian on board who can hopefully get me some ways into the language and these damn tooltips

[Naki]

Great pics AS..FS9???

[Alfashark]

Thanks Paul, yep FS9 for this one... a lot of the gauges and more importantly the .sys gauges arent FSX compatable.
Nothing worse than A: not being able to start the engines (no Ctrl+E), or B: cruising along in flight with all of the ground service gear still attached to the airframe

[Adrian Brausch]

gotta love the IL-76,..probably my favorite jet freighter,..one of Ilyushin greatest designs in my opinion !.

these shots taken in Moscow on a very cold winters day ( or was that a russian summer !),..on a very icey runway on route to Frankfurt/Hahn in Germany..

[Alfashark]

Nice work! Love the wet runway in the first shot
I like the look of the '76... very purposeful.
If I recall rightly one had about 15min of fame in Die Another Day (a bond flick)

[Ian Warren]

Adrian Had one of these out on the ramp at Christchurch couple years back it really looked the part

QUOTE (Alfashark @ Jul 21 2009, 10:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yeah theres still a few conspiracy stories about the likeness

The 76 ... yeah , I read a Starlifter crew was court martialled for letting the Russain crew check out the C141 ,