Plane Names WAS Russia's 'Blackjacks' fly again

One B-52, possibly the G version. Painted green camo, foreground.

Two Tu-95 Bear Bombers (Recon versions?) Ones with 4 turboprop engines and
silver and white paint.

Looks like Bear G or Hs to me.


One An-124 Transport (In back, painted white in blue trim. 4 engines.)

One C-130 Hercules transport (I think it is behind the first row of planes.
Painted green.)

KC-10 as the other poster identified.


The thing with the An-124 is, if it has four engines it is the An-124. If it
has six, it is the An-225. I think there are only a couple of those big boys
flying around.

Twin tail on the 225, and noticeably larger than the single tailed 24 and 124.

(When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.... and is
massive....)

And those 124s are literally acrobatic! I watched a very low altitude demo
over the rusting junkyards of Otay Mesa at the US/Mexican border during the
1988 Brown Field airshow - the Soviet crew tossed that giant thing around to
the point that the C-5 crew literally looked shocked. I mean stunned into
disbelief. I was waiting for the unbelievable air demonstration to end in a
spectacular crash, but the Antonov smoothly carved its way around the sky like
you would expect a T-6 Texan - just amazing to see something that size doing
HUGE wingovers and 180-degree course reversals in what seemed like the distance
of its own length. I've never witnessed finer, or scarier, airmanship in
reference to a cargo aircraft..

v/r
Gordon
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