Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

Il-76:

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It's not terribly unusual to see these trashhaulers at larger airports around the country. Capable of carrying outsized cargo (and 55 tons of it), the Il-76 doesn't need handling equipment to load or unload cargo, unlike the commercial Western jet freighters.

5 comments:

Deadstick said...

That airplane looks big, but it's actually no bigger than a DC-3.

It's an optical ilyushin.

w3ski said...

Why the lower set of windows? It looks like a refitted WW2 bomber like that.
w3ski

Comrade Misfit said...

w3ski, that's the navigator's station. When the Il-76 was designed, the Soviets pretty much used ADF abd/or pilotage.

Of more interest is the tail-gunner's station right under the rudder.

CenterPuke88 said...

After reading you SWA story above and then checking these comments, I found myself wondering just what upcharge Spirit would put on a tail-gunner seat.

Stewart Dean said...

Passed the link onto a friend, who replied:
" used to know a guy who defected from Romania and worked in the aviation field there.

They used to call Ilyushins Fuel to Noise Convertors.

(of course, after next major Solar Event wipes out electronics for a while, these beasts will still fly while there is still Jet Fuel to fill them...)"