YesterAirlines
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I am just back from the Manchester Aviation Fair and one of the models I got (for just a tenner) was a Luftwaffe Tu-154. I was going to post some photos and looked up the frame's history and had completely forgotten that it was involved in a mid-air collision. Considering how much crash models have been discussed over the past few days this is an incredible coincidence but it just goes to show how common models of crashed airliners are. Anyway, although the old Tucano/Phoenix Tu-154 isn't the best the model pairs well with my 'Interflug' version and gives me an opportunity to elaborate on the story of the German 154s, which is in my opinion very interesting:
Incidentally I was about 3/4 way through writing this when I realised I'd blogged about the IF 154 before but this later piece is a good companion to the original, which covers Interflug itself more. See here for the original piece:
German Tu-154s: 'Interflug' to Open Skies
Even though East Germany was an important member of the Warsaw Pact it's national airline, Interflug, never operated the Tu-154 trijet basing its jet fleet around the smaller Tu-134 and larger Il-62 instead. That doesn't mean a couple of 154s didn't wear
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Incidentally I was about 3/4 way through writing this when I realised I'd blogged about the IF 154 before but this later piece is a good companion to the original, which covers Interflug itself more. See here for the original piece:
Interflug 154s: East Germany’s Mysterious Trijets
The Tupolev TU-154 is the most successful jet airliner that the Soviet Union ever produced. Sturdy, reliable (at least from the TU-154B onwards) and at least vaguely efficient it went on to have a production run of over 1,000 units and serve extensively w
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