10/5/2023 0 Comments Yak 40 x plane 10 freeThis aircraft's release also has created a bit of a small predicament in creating this review for X-PlaneReviews. This Tupolev Tu-154 is Felis's biggest and most ambitious aircraft for X-Plane yet, and as the aircraft is so iconic with Russian design it required it to be certainly a high quality design to represent the best of flying these mid-60's Soviet era aircraft. The An-24 and the Yak 40 were both very well received and are regarded as great aircraft to fly in the simulator and both are well worth a purchase (Both aircraft are currently on special for US$10). ![]() In normal airline and military service it was a very capable and reliable aircraft.įelis Planes are well known around X-Plane for their excellent Russian aircraft. But many if most were not the fault of design but of the aircraft being used well beyond its (already impressive) capabilities, poor crew flying and bad weather incidents. The Tu-154 had the notoriety of over a hundred aircraft accidents (the Tu-154's NATO name was: Careless!). Modern upgrades normally include a TCAS, GPS and other modern systems, are mostly American or EU-made. A stability and control augmentation system improves handling characteristics during manual flight. and altogether 1,026 Tu-154's rolled off the line at factory N18 in Kyibyshev. last variant (Tu-154M-100, introduced 1998) includes an NVU-B3 Doppler navigation system, a triple autopilot, which provides an automatic ILS approach according to ICAO category II weather minimums, an autothrottle, a Doppler drift and speed measure system (DISS), "Kurs-MP" radio navigation suite and others. Mass production ended in 2006, though limited manufacturing continued as of January 2009. It also has a relocated auxiliary power unit and numerous other improvements. The aircraft has new double-slotted (instead of triple-slotted) flaps, with an extra 36-degree position (in addition to existing 15, 28 and 45-degree positions on older versions), which allows reduction of noise on approach. Together with significant aerodynamic refinement, this led to much lower fuel consumption and therefore longer range, as well as lower operating costs. The most popular version was the Tu-154M as it uses the more fuel-efficient Soloviev D-30KU-154 turbofans. The first deliveries to Aeroflot were in 1970 with freight (mail) services beginning in May 1971 and passenger services in February 1972. A take-off distance of 2,600 metres (8,500 ft) at maximum take-off weight was also stipulated as a requirement. The TU-154 was the Russian equivalent of the west's American Boeing 727 and British Hawker Siddeley Trident in being a three-engine, medium-range, narrow-body airliner. The Tu-154 was developed to meet Aeroflot's requirement to replace the jet-powered Tu-104, the Antonov An-10 'Ukraine' and the IIyushin II-18 Turbo-props. ![]() That iconic aircraft was the Tupolev Tu-154. Of all these aircraft one design was the workhorse of all most every Soviet airline and in the case of the state run airline Aeroflot and its subsidiaries it carried half of all passengers of those airlines with the noted 137.5 million/year or 243.8 billion passenger km in and accounted for in 1990, and remained the standard bearer domestic-route airliner of Russia and former Soviet states until the mid-2000s. The change has been dramatic and in only a few decades has this movement of aircraft equipment been so revolutionary to the Russian way of traveling.īut go back past those few decades and enter the pre-glasnost era ( Soviet policy of openness) and your travel in the Soviet and eastern bloc territories would have been only on a Tupolev, Ilyushin, Beriev or Antonov airliner. Aircraft Review : Tupolev Tu-154M by Felis Planesįly into most Russian major airports today and you will find yourself looking at basically the same Boeings and Airbuses that dominate the western hemispheres airline networks.
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