Tupolev Tu-160.
ASCC Reporting Name – Blackjack
Russian nickname – Bieliy Lebed – the White Swan.
How can all-over white be loud ????
OK – it has a yellow/blue chevron, representing the Air Force flag on the nose, it has the names of Russian Heros in red ‘gothic’ Cyrillic on the forward fuselage and it has a stylised white/blue/red representation of the Russian flag on the all-moving fin.
But ‘loud’ ?????
Ken
OMG, Ken Duffey has a personal Tu-160:diablo:
Afghan AN-32 Arrives
An Afghan soldier with the Afghan National Army Air Corps directs a newly delivered AN-32 light tactical transport plane to its spot on the ramp of Kabul Air Base in Kabul, Afghanistan on Jan 10/08. The AN-32’s high placement of the engine nacelles above the wing allow bigger propellers, driven by 5,100 hp AI-20 turboprops that almost double the output of the related AN-26’s engines. As a result, the AN-32’s 14,750 pound/ 6900 kg load capacity is almost 50% better than its AN-26 cousin’s. Most important to the ANAA, it can take off with much better load fractions in hot and/or high-altitude conditions, whose thin air could be a problem for other aircraft.
This plane is the first of 4 refurbished AN-32s that were purchased from the Ukraine by the ANAA, which will then have 7 An-32s in inventory. The ANAA also flies 2 related AN-26 transports.
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/afghan-an-32-arrives-04621/
¿Afghan An-32? Laothian for me. Perhaps refuel stop.
http://www.spotters.net.ua/file/?id=1729&size=large
Regards from Spain.
Lets hope this is a sign of a mega year in rare and wonderful photos!!
Great find Banshee. But copy is not permitted 😡 I think that is the same plane visible in Google Earth in a corner of Tripoli airport. Well at this moment i´m not shure about Tripoli, but i have see a Lybian Binder on Google Earth.
The “arabic” page is now out of service. Right buttom is also dissabled in this page, but all the photos that i see are stolen from other internet pages. Nothing original or genuine. Nice way to exchange 😡
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