NZFF

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

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 !

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

Great pics AS..FS9???

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

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..

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)

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

Alfashark wrote:

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 ,