Anyone Identify this aircraft?
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From: Sverdlovsk
Anyone Identify this aircraft?
Go to Google earth co-ord 12 49' 32 N 45 01' 47E
Can't see any engines..., so could be the biggest glider ever!!!! Notwithstanding the German efforts during WW2...
...., and a walk down memory lane for all those who had to suffer this shi**y sand-pit - it was normally a 13 month unaccompanied..., or two year tour for unmarried souls..., with 30 days R&R after the first 13 months..., not as active as some of the current sand-pits of today..., but it had it's moments...!!!
GengisKhant
Can't see any engines..., so could be the biggest glider ever!!!! Notwithstanding the German efforts during WW2...
...., and a walk down memory lane for all those who had to suffer this shi**y sand-pit - it was normally a 13 month unaccompanied..., or two year tour for unmarried souls..., with 30 days R&R after the first 13 months..., not as active as some of the current sand-pits of today..., but it had it's moments...!!!
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If my map reading memory serves me this looks like old Khormaksar and, given Yemen's connections with USSR I'd guess something from there and minus the engines. I think I can see a nacelle on the stbd wing but can't be sure. An old IL18 perhaps? Stands by for mocking laughter!
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From: 58-33N. 00-18W. Peterborough UK
Easy - Ilyushin 18V, Balkan Bulgarian Airlines, Registration: LZ-BEP.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/...?id=19840616-0
http://aviation-safety.net/database/...?id=19840616-0
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It's an An-12 - perhaps this one: http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file?i...ext_id=0221899
I put an overlay over it and it fits - without engines - would post it if I could post pictures.
I put an overlay over it and it fits - without engines - would post it if I could post pictures.
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All..., many thanks..., thought it was some form of ex Russian a/c, but couldn't place it.
FORGET..., thanks..., never ceases to amaze me how much information is out there ...., if you know where to look!!!
DALLAS..., I wouldn't worry about posting photos..., lots of us can't do it either!!!
FORGET..., thanks..., never ceases to amaze me how much information is out there ...., if you know where to look!!!
DALLAS..., I wouldn't worry about posting photos..., lots of us can't do it either!!!
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Gengis - "30 days R&R" ???? I wish
2 years 7 weeks straight, NO R&R, NO anything, really other than sand, humidity, discomfort. Even a request for compassionate return to UK for my Dad's funeral refused because I was "the youngest son" (big brother was in the UK).
Not at all sure how those conditions would go down with today's 19 - 21 year olds. The things which seem to bug the present day military are, no doubt, a matter of irritation and concern but 't'was ever thus - "if you can't take a (bad) joke you shouldn't have joined"
2 years 7 weeks straight, NO R&R, NO anything, really other than sand, humidity, discomfort. Even a request for compassionate return to UK for my Dad's funeral refused because I was "the youngest son" (big brother was in the UK). Not at all sure how those conditions would go down with today's 19 - 21 year olds. The things which seem to bug the present day military are, no doubt, a matter of irritation and concern but 't'was ever thus - "if you can't take a (bad) joke you shouldn't have joined"
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Aden R&R
Gengis,
Some of us had the pleasure of a free flight to/from Kenya after 13months
All the way to Nairobi in an Argosy aka Whistlin' wheelbarrow. Returning by East African Airways Comet 4.
Holiday at 'SilverSands' families camp on the coast near Mombasa.
Quite splendid.
Some of us had the pleasure of a free flight to/from Kenya after 13months
All the way to Nairobi in an Argosy aka Whistlin' wheelbarrow. Returning by East African Airways Comet 4.
Holiday at 'SilverSands' families camp on the coast near Mombasa.
Quite splendid.
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Il-18 derilect in Africa
Here is a photograph of an Ilyushin Il-18 without engines in Africa.
http://www.myaviation.net/search/dis...333&ViD=middle
http://www.myaviation.net/search/dis...333&ViD=middle
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From: Arbistan
Gengis, How the devil etc etc etc
Good to see you on here not insulting a pointlessly self-important failed FTE cum Test Pilot (emphasis on the cum!!).
I think it's a microlight, I saw a great presentation on its handling qualities at every conference I've ever been to.
Don't forget I'm visiting in May.
Affirmatron.
Good to see you on here not insulting a pointlessly self-important failed FTE cum Test Pilot (emphasis on the cum!!).
I think it's a microlight, I saw a great presentation on its handling qualities at every conference I've ever been to.
Don't forget I'm visiting in May.
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Antonov. An-12 Cub
You can see an Iraqi An-12 being destroyed by an airstrike at the following link.
http://www.blackburn-buccaneer.co.uk...missions.html?
You can see an Iraqi An-12 being destroyed by an airstrike at the following link.
http://www.blackburn-buccaneer.co.uk...missions.html?
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Khormaksar
While taking of Khormaksar, can anyone pin point the officers' mess and the Merryfield Hotel (the one on base)? Also the main dispersal where Vulcans would have been parked. I think it was 12 49.5N 45 01E.
Also Steamer Point and Tarshine (?) beach.
Also Steamer Point and Tarshine (?) beach.
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And a little to the west....
... like about 400m? .... is an engine-less Hercules - sorry, haven't got the co-ords right now (on other PC).
Low Obs Cunningly clever these Europeans, they scour the world for projekt A400M!
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Low Obs Cunningly clever these Europeans, they scour the world for projekt A400M!
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