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Old 3rd Oct 2011, 10:05
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Originally Posted by ATNotts
All of the "big" turboprops:-

IL18
Britannia
Vanguard
Electra

Probably in that order.
A reasonable enough wish list - from a distance. Having flown in three of them, the noise cycling through the airframe was awful, even 60 minutes on a BKS Brit to Newcastle was almost unbearable, three hours to Warsaw on an Il-18 was sheer purgatory. Maybe the Electra (Eastern shuttle WAS-NYC) wasn't so bad.

All of them evaded my best efforts to fly on, closest shave being an Interflug IL18 in June 2000 from SXF to PRG, sadly they changed the type to TU134 and not even I was daft enough to risk my life in one of them!!!
In my experience (Malev), Tu-134 was a very pleasant aircraft to fly in. The 154 was scary, though, with an almost imperceptible climb-out rate.
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