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[STN Ramp Rat]

I am surprised this has not found its way onto Pprune yet..... Some remarkable footage from Nis in Serbia, Looking at the Flightradar24 playback it departed at 17:02Z on Tuesday and it took 7 minutes to reach FL100 and 30 minutes to reach FL300.

https://www.facebook.com/BoardingPass.ro/videos/898575010623634/

[Less Hair]

It's a short video on Facebook. Unable to embed the link here. Not displayed on this site.
It's about the still active Rada Airlines Il-62 freighter. It used the full (2500 m) runway on takeoff up to the last feet.
The climb over the hill coming next looks like the challenge.

[oceancrosser]

30 minutes to reach FL300 is pretty good for this generation of jet. In my DC-8 days taking 45 minutes to climb to FL280 at high temps and weights was pretty normal.

[Ray_Y]

Whot?!

This is the most meaningful info I found:
Visit Nisremoved
You talking about this?

Edit: ok, your link was not showing up. Crazy departure, reminds me of that 727 Cargo in South America which eventually busted!

[treadigraph]

Or that IL-76 in Oz...

[reverserunlocked]

https://twitter.com/onaviation/status/1283742521638752256?s=21

[dixi188]

A bit like an A340-300.

[Less Hair]

So what sort of heavy stuff do they load at Nis?

[pax britanica]

Must have been very heavy , IL62 nice clean wing designed for long range Ops, Shannon-Havana , Moscow to Beijing . Such a scary-the only word for it- take off from Serbia to where? one assumes back in Russia somewhere . Great video even more dramatic than the legendary ' Vodka burner at Canbara'

[Pistonprop]

Why assume back to Russia? The aircraft is on the Belarus register. Anyway, it went from Nis, Serbia, to Zvartnots, Armenia, actual distance flown 2021 Kms.