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A Su-24MR decorated purposely for the VVS 100-year anniversary:






NOTE: This is the same aircraft! The port and starboard sides have different design.
http://russianplanes.net/st/Sukhoi/Su-24MR

[lancer]

The art work on that Fencer is bloody gorgeous!!!

[NARSES2]

That is nice and a happy birthday to the VVS

[PR19_Kit]

Why does it have a photo of a Tu-134 on the port fin? 

[redstar72]

Why does it have a photo of a Tu-134 on the port fin? 

Why not?  And there is also An-26.

[Mr.Creak]

Tu-134 was the first Russian/ Soviet airliner to get ICAO certification, allowing it to make flights to other countries - therefore it would effectively have been the first "ambassador" airliner they had. (Just a suggestion).

[Hobbes]

The Tu-114 was used for high-level official flights long before the Tu-134: Kruschev was flown to New York on one for his shoe-banging session at the UN, and before that came the Tu-116 (basically a Tu-95 with a passenger compartment where the bomb bay used to be) stop-gap project.

[PR19_Kit]

And the Tu-104 before then even.

I can remember going to Heathrow to see the first one that flew into UK in 1956 sometime, but I can't remember who it was carrying. The darn thing TOWERED over every other aircraft in the place and was unbelievably noisy too.

[upnorth]

It's been a while since I posted Soviet originated stuff here, so  I have a few goodies for you all:

Some of the aircraft on display at the Vyskov air museum, which I visited in spring:

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A few land vehicles from Vyskov too:

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Some from a trip to Olomouc a few weeks ago:

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Had fun poking about this Hind at Olomouc too:

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Fast forward to yesterday, I went back to Vyskov for an open day at the airport there and snapped these:

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Got some of the old girl being more lively too:











And topped the day by going for a flight in her:

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I also snapped some pics of an Mi-17 that the Czech AF brought in for a bit at the open day.