I seem to remember that a 747 was brought down some years back with the likely cause being a consignment of batteries which overheated

Merry Christmas

To the south of the main hangar, 55°33’16.56″N 38° 7’14.75″O ? Looks almost like an ekranoplan of sorts.

That’s it. I had originally typed that I thought it was a flying boat but deleted it before I posted. Ekranoplan is a probably a better guess though.

No idea what the “something else” is yet, Arthur, but I’m investigating. I have a pretty nice overhead view of Zhukovskiy from an old IAPR issue that I’m going to compare with this one to see if there was something in that spot that maybe hasn’t moved.

Also, did you notice the Tu-128 at Rzhev?

I need to rescan this photo from 1993 but there was a radar nosed Tu-104 dumped in the trees.

Note there is also a twin boomed aircraft in the buildings south of the myasichev hangars

I presume that we are talking only about the last flight of HB-IGH rather than the last flight of a DC-8? I only say this because I understood that ATC ltd at Lasham were expecting a further year’s work servicing a couple of DC-8s at Lasham.

Just to drag the general tone of things down….

“Santa’s a Scotsman!” as played on Ken Bruce’s Radio 2 show

…which is why I suggested B-class marks, such as G-52-XXX

How about B-class marks?