IL-76 at LHR!!!
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Saw it great! 223rd Joint stock company. Putin must be coming??
Its gone from its original parking spot in the cargo cul-de-sac, any clues where its gone now? Callsign was TTF9xxx
Also see that Concorde has come back again at the end of Rwy 23!
Its gone from its original parking spot in the cargo cul-de-sac, any clues where its gone now? Callsign was TTF9xxx
Also see that Concorde has come back again at the end of Rwy 23!
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1x IL62 Just landed at LHR, what a noise....!! Followed a few minutes later by a go round of what looked and sounded like a SyrianArab B747SP. 1900z
Another IL62 just landed, slamming into reverse thrust raised a few eyebrows, again just now.. fast taxi off of 27L
I just updated this again at 1951Z due to the 2nd aircraft landing
Another IL62 just landed, slamming into reverse thrust raised a few eyebrows, again just now.. fast taxi off of 27L
I just updated this again at 1951Z due to the 2nd aircraft landing
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My piccy of the IL-76 is at:
RA78842 landing 27L
RA78842 landing 27L
Looks like Putin's Il-96 has well and truly bitten the dust, for now anyway, a summit is surely the time for a "mine's bigger than yours" display on the Heathrow VIP parking area.
For those who don't know, it had a brake failure on landing at Helsinki last month, actually with El Pres on board. Fortunately they didn't overrun, though that presumably would have caused some reverse thrust ! Pres went home on the backup Il-62 and following some doubtless typically Russian "full and frank exchanges of opinion" the entire Il-96 production has been grounded since.
BTW speaking of a "mine's bigger than yours" contest, apparently the following took place at Washington DC in the 1990s, in front of a RAF VC-10 and an Air Force One 747.
John Major : "Wow, Mr President, I admire your plane"
Bill Clinton : "Thank you, Prime Minister".
Another British Minister : "Prime Minister, I must introduce you to Richard Branson. He's got eight of them !"
For those who don't know, it had a brake failure on landing at Helsinki last month, actually with El Pres on board. Fortunately they didn't overrun, though that presumably would have caused some reverse thrust ! Pres went home on the backup Il-62 and following some doubtless typically Russian "full and frank exchanges of opinion" the entire Il-96 production has been grounded since.
BTW speaking of a "mine's bigger than yours" contest, apparently the following took place at Washington DC in the 1990s, in front of a RAF VC-10 and an Air Force One 747.
John Major : "Wow, Mr President, I admire your plane"
Bill Clinton : "Thank you, Prime Minister".
Another British Minister : "Prime Minister, I must introduce you to Richard Branson. He's got eight of them !"
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Looks like Putin's Il-96 has well and truly bitten the dust
Ironically, Moscow Times is reporting that yesterday the Federal Transportation Inspection Service signed off the IL-96 to resumne flying. Fair amount of argument about the situation, with the some IL-96 pilots and at least one of the airlines saying the grounding was unnecessary.
As an aside, the latest Moscow Times article describes the Il-96 as:
The poor man's version of the Boeing 767 ... the last big achievement of Soviet civil aviation.
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Reminds me of the days I was an air cadet. Back in the late nineties was at RAF Fairford for the RIAT (1997 i think it was). Managed to get about the IL76 and speak to the crew! 