Soviet airliners: an historical account?
Hello gentlemen!
I'm trying to establish comparative views between westerner and soviet airliners. I'm even trying to learn russian, because the langage barier is an unsuspected huge obstacle.
I'd be really keen on listening testimonies from former pilots and engineers who flew the soviet airliners.
I too read negative reports abouts those planes, from authors who actually never knew what they were talking of. The langage difference leave the door opened to all sorts of msiconceptions, bias, partiality which are too often written and repeated, and often the historical and economical contextes are ignored.
I need direct testimonies, not echoes from "my cousin knows a russian hostess who told him..." nor "last year I traveled in a old crappy Tu-154 and the food was abject"!
If some experienced pilots had some time: they have the big itellectual advantage for some of them to have switched from an old soviet TU to a recent Airbus or Boeing. Finally they are the best placed to compare.
Thank you for all suggestions and thoughts!
Sebastien (Paris-Orly Concorde museum)