Why would u want to buy an ugly obsolete jet anyway. This thing would have been fodder in even the korean war. Doesnt deserve a place in a western museum.

Thanks for the abusive visitor page message – I’m sure your stay here is going to be rather short.

And actually, the museum that this (and ten other) aircraft was planned to go to were extremely keen to get their hands on it (and the others). You can actually see some of the aircraft that would have been involved in Ken’s photo above, although this all happened nearly ten years ago now.

Whats the chance on a (decomissioned) Foxbat for a UK museum?

I did try some years back but the dollar signs in the eyes of the Russian involved just kept spinning round and round to the point where it ceased to be a viable proposition.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-10988966

Hi kabir

You surely aren’t that old….., it sounds in airline terms ‘pre-historic’.

A bucket of water for doing the waterworks in and holding back with anything more solid.

Out of sheer interest was the ‘bucket’ anchored to the structure and large enough and how did they cope when it did fill up, ie who emptied it ?

Sssh, quiet MOL may read/hear and think of getting rid of the last toilet he proposes on RyanAir and replace it with a bucket and sell adult nappies if anyone needs to do anything else more solid.

Give us a bigger laugh.

How long ago was all this and where ?

Ever been on an An-24? I think the Bulgarian one I was on back in 2000 was of an equal standard.

Thier website shows DC-6 in their fleet and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conair_Group shows a picture of tanker 50

Lots of job cuts in QinetiQ going on at the moment

Life Is Beautiful and The Thief (a Russian language film) do it for me. Plenty of others but those are top of the weepy list

He obviously hasn’t seen a fully laden Victor or VC-10 get airborne either!
As you say they take off adequately and the RAF have plenty of big runways.

Or a fully laden B-52 for that matter 😉