air fleet is growing - today, something behind the Iron Curtain:)
Tu-154M was probably the most popular Soviet medium-range passenger plane. Evidence of this is that even made his mark in the NATO code Careless (careless:)
In one of the planes of this type ill-fated died 10 April 2010, our President and the accompanying person. But this is not what I wanted ...
It was a successful and very robust machine. Hence arose a large number of manufactured and operated virtually anywhere in the world of machines of this type. Among others have used them Airlines of the former USSR, Bulgaria, Cuba, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Korean Mon. and Syria. In addition, the planes were military aviation use and available many countries of the Eastern Bloc.
design work undertaken by the decision to replace flying in the colors of Aeroflot Tu-104 jet and turboprop An-10, An-12 and Il-18. Oblot prototype of a new passenger plane took place on 4 October 1968. In 1972 the service became the first machine of this type. In 1973 he flew the Tu-154A, and in 1975 he entered it into production. This version uses the same engine as the Ilyushin Il-62 aircraft. Since 1977, he was produced Tu-154B, with French avionics, housed up to 180 people. In 1981, PLL LOT to order a prototype of the Tu-154M in 1982 and renamed the Tu-164, but later reverted to its original designation. The first Tu-154M aircraft left the factory in 1984 year. Were equipped with engines similar to those used in the Il-62M aircraft with a flap over odwracaczami and reduced thrust. In 2001, production of Tu-154 aircraft has been completed. Manufactured in total 1025 machines of this type.
Zvezda Model on a scale of 1 / 144 (although this is a huge size - length of over 30cm).
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