The second part of the Moscow threads belongs to Vnukovo. I spend a day and a half here. A half day airside and a full day in the final approach. The landside pictures will follow later, here are the airside pictures.
We spend time at several platforms, but not at the Rossiya governmental platforms and neither at the biz-jet platforms.
As mentioned, we had no access to the Rossiya platforms, but we where free to make pictures from a distance.
By: Distiller - 14th September 2010 at 08:16
When you are in the area, you should have a look at Ostafyevo. General aviation only airport, about in the middle between Vnukovo and Domodedovo. Very small, very modern.
By: tenthije - 13th September 2010 at 12:55
Nice. Thx.
The good thing about Vnukovo is it has the best autobahn connection and the least amount of travellers …
That I noticed! We spend a full day in the final approach standing next to the sliproad onto the M3 (westbound). During that day we may have seen 20 cars driving past, half of them service vehicles.
In fact, it was not even a problem to cross the sliproad as a pedestrian! We did that near the police box.
By: Distiller - 13th September 2010 at 09:33
Nice. Thx.
The good thing about Vnukovo is it has the best autobahn connection and the least amount of travellers …
By: MSR777 - 13th September 2010 at 08:35
Absolutely! It was a great trip! And so far you’ve only seen half of my catch!
It’s gonna get better as well. A day later I was in the final approach, and saw a Rossiya IL62 in the final approach. It did two approaches actually, must have been a training flight.
Those shots will follow in a day or two. First I am gonna do the Domodedovo air-side photos (lot’s of stored Ilyushins). Then two threads for Vnukovo landside and Domodedovo landside.
i really look forward to seeing them. I always remember when I was working a Cubana IL62M as a T/O seeing it deploy the reverse thrust ‘buckets’ as it crossed the threshold with the nose dropping sharply as a result.
By: Augustus_18 - 12th September 2010 at 23:34
nice photoes
By: tenthije - 12th September 2010 at 12:04
it must have been an amazing trip
Absolutely! It was a great trip! And so far you’ve only seen half of my catch!
Peter, Thanks for these great images. Really good to see that immaculate IL62 (not that I’m biased). They really don’t make them like that anymore…..:(
It’s gonna get better as well. A day later I was in the final approach, and saw a Rossiya IL62 in the final approach. It did two approaches actually, must have been a training flight.
Those shots will follow in a day or two. First I am gonna do the Domodedovo air-side photos (lot’s of stored Ilyushins). Then two threads for Vnukovo landside and Domodedovo landside.
By: MSR777 - 12th September 2010 at 11:42
Peter, Thanks for these great images. Really good to see that immaculate IL62 (not that I’m biased). They really don’t make them like that anymore…..:(
By: T5 - 12th September 2010 at 09:55
Excellent shots. My favourite is line-up of Tu-154s towards the end. 🙂
By: steve rowell - 12th September 2010 at 06:17
Peter ..they are just incredible shots..the mixture of the older Soviet types with the more modern technology is fascinating..it must have been an amazing trip
By: Old Git - 11th September 2010 at 21:44
Tenthije – Wonderful shots, thanks for sharing them.
By: Bristol_Rob - 11th September 2010 at 17:40
Incredible Photos.
Rob
🙂
By: tenthije - 11th September 2010 at 16:49
The next two photos where taken from the VARZ-400 maintenance area. The planes where parked on the biz-jet area, but we had no access there.
And the pictures from VARZ-400:
This is not the Alrosa that crashed a few days ago. I got the crashed Alrosa earlier that day at Domodedovo.
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