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Old 4th August 2004 | 14:33
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JamesT73J
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'Ruslan' Flight deck picture

http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/631785/L/

I was looking at this and noticed that the aircraft is new. Russian aviation has come a long, long way in the last twenty years, and I'm going to make a couple of assumptions:

1) It's a four engined transport. Would the electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems not be similar in principle to most other civil aircraft? By this I mean a few manufacturers seemed to have settled on reasonably similar methods for systems layout - common sense practice I suppose.

2) Given the above, why so many crew stations? I can see six seats - what does everybody do?

I'm not being critical - on the contrary, I think it's fab. I'm just wondering how the operation of such an aircraft differs systemically to others.
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