Aviaenergo Ilyushin Il 62M/VIP

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[wallstreetpilot]

Russia has some pretty cool planes

[Jan07191]

wow the il-62 makes more noise than rocket engines ...

...and I love it!!!

[superality]

most beautiful russian plane ever built. thansk.

[gradfark]

This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System...

[pump066]

@sixstringfretter You bet there's been spies at the Vickers, the IL-62 is a spitting image!

While being a beautiful design -either russian or british- I wonder how it was to fly as a pax?

Sitting in aft of the wings for example Moscow-Shannon-NYC, must have made you, if not

permanently deaf, at least hard of hearing for the rest of your america visit!!!

[ecw11563]

@mjfan653 The Lockheed JetStar also had 4 rear-mounted engines.  It featured prominently in the James Bond movie, Goldfinger.

[av21031]

@drmartyn There were only 28 still in use in July 2011. Cubana retired their civilian ones but retained one for the govt, Deta Air (Kazakhstan) operates them (one is a former Czech Airways example), a couple of airlines in Russia as well as the EMERCOM ministry, (and possibly the govt although they mainly use IL-96 now), Air Koryo (Nth Korea), Aria Air (Iran), and the Gambian and Sudanese govts. A few others have been refurbished recently and onsold or leased to charter airlines.

[drmartyn]

are any of these beauties still gracing the skies anywhere in the world today?

[DanDauzacker]

GOsh... I'm deaf...

[sixstringfretter]

This is very similiar to the British VC10. I wonder if one wasn't copied from another. The IL-62 came out in 1963, the VC10 in 1962. Maybe a little espionage? Mmm...could be.

[mjfan653]

@binaway sorry that was meant for av21031

[mjfan653]

@binaway naah its a large plastic model proabably from the early 80's or late 70's thats when the house was made, its in aeroflot livery from the soviet times, you know the cccp- tail number, the red flag and the aeroflot logo with the soviet hammer and cickle or something.