| When I was working at Christchurch Airport (NZ) we used to get the occaisional Aeroflot/Eastern Bloc aircraft (Il 62, Tu 154 etc) come in to swap over charter fishing boat crews and they were usually parked outside our hangar overnight. Walking around the aircraft the engineering always looked "agricultural" to me. It was interesting to compare them with the US aircraft based there as part of the Antarctic support mission. |