Russian AF IL76`s

Biggles Gold Member Posts: 3,624	Russian AF IL76`s Aug 11, 2010 18:58:42 GMT 1 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Biggles on Aug 11, 2010 18:58:42 GMT 1 Due to the failure to control the massive fires in Russia the Russians are transforming the IL76 fleet into firefighters. en.rian.ru/russia/20100811/160163141.html

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Aug 11, 2010 18:58:42 GMT 1 Biggles said:

Due to the failure to control the massive fires in Russia the Russians are transforming the IL76 fleet into firefighters.

en.rian.ru/russia/20100811/160163141.html

The irony of this is the Russians build the Be200 water-bomber, the only one of its' kind in the world. Well, for some reason they're not building many of them, and it's still not certificated for use in EU countries.
It seems a terrible waste of a good aircraft when there are so many forset fires around the world, so I imagine Mr Putin may be having a few words with the Irkutsk Corporation...

Deleted Deleted Member Posts: 0	Russian AF IL76`s Aug 21, 2010 11:02:35 GMT 1 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2010 11:02:35 GMT 1 There has been quite a lot of IL76M's been given RF- registrations according to Air Britain. Bob