The Ilyushin II-62
This is another one of the Soviet Union’s creations, the long-range narrow-body airliner was born in 1960. It is the successor of the popular turboprop II-18. With a capacity for around two hundred passengers and crew, the II-62 was the world’s largest jetliner when it first took to the skies in 1963.following is a disappointing review from a previous pilot.“It still used manual flight controls, there’s no power to assist you to move those flight control surfaces, if some ice gets in a hinge, it’s just your muscle power that will break it loose, it also has a bad history of failed thrust reversers and exploding engines that damage the neighboring engines”, this is a description of the Ilyushin IL-62.
The Ilyushin II 62
The Brewster F2A-3 Buffalo
The Brewster Buffalo or “The Flying Coffin” as it was known was said to be an unwieldy aircraft. The Buffalo saw many flights around the world and was well-used as a monoplane, being the first of its kind to take to the skies! Preceding the end of the second world war the Buffalos design was cumbersome and outdated and did not really serve its purpose well anymore. The operations to get the plane to move to its full ability became untenable and it was done with.
The Brewster Buffalo
