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Title: isn\'t she beautiful?
Post by: EHM-0001 Gergely on May 29, 2004, 05:54:06 pm

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/423494/L/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/550921/L/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/314994/L/

Did someone say Russian planes are not the most beautiful?

Title: isn\'t she beautiful?
Post by: EHM-0005 Maarten on May 29, 2004, 06:01:22 pm

Yeah, it's a true beauty:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/178520/L/

and the nicest thing is that the TU-154 has its rotating speed (VR) at 0 kts!:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/474480/L/

Title: isn\'t she beautiful?
Post by: EHM-1358 Tim on May 29, 2004, 06:06:36 pm

LOL! Very funny Maarten.

It is a nice plane tought, when its not crashed.

Title: isn\'t she beautiful?
Post by: EHM-1388 Tiberiu on May 29, 2004, 06:23:44 pm

Yes, the Tu-154 is a very beautiful airplane.

(http://www.fspics.as.ro/Tu154.jpg)

Unfortunantly it has a pretty bad safety record - about 60 aircraft lost in about 30 years plus a lot of incidents - but I think most were caused by the extreme conditions they fly in, poor maintenace and sometimes human error, rather then design flaws.

One very disturbing accident involved a Tu-154B-1 flying for TAROM (Romania's national air transporter), reg YR-TPH: due to bad visibility, the plane touched down 300m short of the runway at Nouadhibou Airport. The crew thought they were on the runway, but they were actually in the water. Everyone survived the crash-landing, but when the passangers tried to reach the shore, some (1-3 different sources say) were killed by sharks. Trully disturbing.

Title: isn\'t she beautiful?
Post by: EHM-1001 Robert on May 29, 2004, 07:06:39 pm

Oh yes she is !!! (http://www.airliners.net/open.file/466495/M/)

Wish we have it in EHC livery ...:[

Title: isn\'t she beautiful?
Post by: EHM-1358 Tim on May 29, 2004, 07:10:24 pm

I sent a picture to airliners.net, I hope they acept it. It was a pic of a F-15.

Title: isn\'t she beautiful?
Post by: EHM-0962 Zhen Yi on June 03, 2004, 11:54:17 am

LOL at maarten ;)

hmm the wheels of that aircraft (posted by Roberto) reminds me of centipedes :o

Could you post your picture here tim? :P