Tu-154

boondr

boondr

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Actually talked to one today, it climbed pretty well. It was the star in my departure sector for about 5 mins, with at least 2 "where is it now's". Thought it was rare enough occurrence this side of the former Soviet Bloc that I would share it.

It was some sort of Open Skies treaty aircraft.
 
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There are some 200 -154s still flying, mostly Ms. Typical Russian design with a six wheel main gear. Larger and more powerful than a 727 or the British counterpart, the Trident. Or even its cousin, the Yak-42.

And yes, the FE has a set of throttles
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I still can't figure out if the Russians sold that blue paint to Douglas or Douglas (later McDoug) sold it to the Russians.

And the big blade fans. The blades are very soft rubber so you can't get hurt by them.
 
I've always wanted to fly on the Tu-154, it has a roughed but graceful look about it.

Looks especially great in the new Aeroflot colors.
 
I called traffic to a Corvalis 400 and got a "A WHAT?!" in regards to the type. I just said "looks like a 727".
 
Orange Anchor said:
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There are some 200 -154s still flying, mostly Ms. Typical Russian design with a six wheel main gear. Larger and more powerful than a 727 or the British counterpart, the Trident. Or even its cousin, the Yak-42.

And yes, the FE has a set of throttles
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I still can't figure out if the Russians sold that blue paint to Douglas or Douglas (later McDoug) sold it to the Russians.

And the big blade fans. The blades are very soft rubber so you can't get hurt by them.
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interesting
 
dasleben said:
No. boondr sicked F-15s on him. I saw it all go down. :bandit:

No but really, when was this? I did 8 legs today and didn't see anything!
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It was a IAD departure, I talked to it in our high departure sector, you would get a nosebleed up there.
 
mshunter said:
Are those even allowed into US airspace.
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apparently, but they're not to fond of English. Sent him direct a fix, spelling it out 3 separate times phonetically, after a 3rd botched read-back I just said "why don't we do this, "fly heading Tree Fower Zero and join J211" (I lie it was "three four zero")
 
boondr said:
It was a IAD departure, I talked to it in our high departure sector, you would get a nosebleed up there.
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Wait, what? There are other sectors besides 125.52, 119.7, and 128.7? That's crazy talk. :D

But really, that's awesome. Where was he headed exactly?
 
SurferLucas said:
I've always wanted to fly on the Tu-154, it has a roughed but graceful look about it.

Looks especially great in the new Aeroflot colors.
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I got a couple of patterns in the -154. Handled like a 727.. somewhat heavy on the controls. We were very light and the Capt/IP ran 'em up before releasing brakes and he emptied the forward galley. (must not have been secured). He spoke little to no English. I spoke little to no Russian. We were working through a translator on the jumpseat and it was interesting to say the least.

I think most have been banned from airports requiring stage 3 noise and certainly stage 4. And the -154 makes the news when it augurs in. The Polish VIP was a -154 but that looks like human factors rather than the machine.

(on another issue, did you hear the latest on the P-40N? PM me)
 
boondr said:
what's the thing top-center on the panel that looks like a vision test machine from the DMV?
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TFaudree_ERAU goes to the front of the class! Yep. Radar and yep, nose wheel steering.

Odd also. For a while the engineer controlled the throttles on final (sort of a manual auto-thrust) but in gusty winds it was not difficult for the FE's thrust inputs to be out of synch with the transient event and it resulted in a number of hard landings on the IL-86, the chubby widebody that was a disappointment and later was revised, modified and came out as the IL-96.

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A friend of mine made this picture about seven years ago. He was flying right seat before upgrading to a Bus. Loved it.

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During my training as a navigator in the 80ies I logged close to a hundred hours in the nose cabin of 154's younger brother Tu-134. In this particular machine. She is still intact with all the guts untouched resting at an airfield somewhere behind Ural mountains.


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Fencer said:
A friend of mine made this picture about seven years ago. He was flying right seat before upgrading to a Bus. Loved it.



During my training as a navigator in the 80ies I logged close to a hundred hours in the nose cabin of 154's younger brother Tu-134. In this particular machine. She is still intact with all the guts untouched resting at an airfield somewhere behind Ural mountains.


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Fencer as in SU-24? We went from Moscow to St Petersburg on a -134 and I flew the -134 sim at the Academy. Again a long time ago but they did not believe in single system failures. Stuff just kept failing until you got it on the ground or as with me, we crashed. I was just amazed at how rough the actual runways were. I thought the -134 was going to come apart but was told the block runways were normal.

Oddly enough, last year there was a -134 in IND being converted into a VIP bird. ??
 
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