Thanks a lot for the info, best of luck. I’ll visit Zulu Kilo as soon as it’s on display!

c’etait le plus kool!

Back out of frog mode now. That’s an awesome video. Where do you find all that stuff. First the UN video, now this… already looking forward to your next video!

Well… I spend a lot of time surfing around for things related to my two big loves in aviation – 707 and 727… and gathering ideas for a possible website on these two ladies…

You appear to understand French – are they saying anything interesting in the film?

Very nice pictures. Whats with the green-blue in the Russian cockpits?
Ok Dan, but first learn to read Russian.
Were the Russian cockpits also available in Western characters? Must have been for Cubana.

The special cockpit colour of Soviet/Russian cockpits are meant to be soothing and calming for the pilot. I’m not a pilot, so I can’t say whether it is true but seeing they have used this colour for a very long time there is probably some truth in it.

The Interflug aircraft I’ve been in (this IL-62 and the TU-134 at Finow) both had panel legends in German, but not throughout the flight deck. I’ve also seen Algerian IL-76 flight decks with panels having entirely English legends.

Someone probably knows this even better (Interflug62M?), so I’ll stop speculating here…

I know I’m biased but great pics! I have book about the history of Interflug and it shows in several quite dramatic pictures the arrival of DDR-SEG at that field. The IF 62Ms are indeed mostly still in service, most of them with Uzbekistan Airlines including Erich Honeckers personal aircraft which I worked at STN around 5 yrs ago, although by then it had a normal pax interior. When I visited the “House of Travel” in 88 there were 3 huge models inside of an IL18, IL62 and an A310 all around 1/20 scale, there was also one the same size in a huge Interflug display case in the Alexanderplatz railway station…..hopefully someone saved them!

Speaking of books… there is a new book out in Germany on the GDR aviation (one would have thought that the brilliant Flugzeuge der DDR series was enough, but luckily no!) – Das große Buch der DDR-Luftfahrt. I flipped through it in Berlin and it looks great, with great photos and lots of tidbits like routemaps, tickets, timetables and other memorabilia. I’ll order it soon, I think… More info at http://www.hugendubel.de/default.aspx?gid=1458658&suid=0.

When I was in Berlin in February 1991, Interflug was still in operation and one thing I remember is a promotional banner on one of the railway bridges to the Alexanderplatz station.