By the early 1960s, Soviet citizens could boast that their country not only possessed the world’s largest transport plane, the Tupolev Tu-114, but that the state airline company Aeroflot also operated the world’s longest non-stop passenger run with its service between Havana, Cuba and Moscow.
What was it like to fly the Soviet skies at [...]
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August 2, 2007 - 5:44 pm
Filed in: Avia-Corner, Great Patriotic War, Military, Monino, Museums, Sikorsky, Tupolev
Filed in: Avia-Corner, Great Patriotic War, Military, Monino, Museums, Sikorsky, Tupolev
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[ My apologies for the long delay in posting the last segment of my series on the VVS Museum. After uploading Part Five, I took a week off to visit family and friends. Since then I've been hard at work with some [...]
July 5, 2007 - 3:17 am
Filed in: Avia-Corner, Great Patriotic War, Monino, Moscow Dispatches, Museums, Tupolev
Filed in: Avia-Corner, Great Patriotic War, Monino, Moscow Dispatches, Museums, Tupolev
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Getting Down to Business: The Aircraft Collection
The Museum’s outdoor aircraft collection is divided into eight different sections. One of these is devoted to helicopters. Of the remaining seven, two consist of groups devoted to “Military-Transport Aircraft” and “Airplanes of the Great Patriotic War.” The rest [...]