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FLIGHT #1/4 KOSMOS TU-134A-3 RA-65726 MOSCOW (VKO) – KALUGA (KLF), APRIL 27, 2019

This video has been remastered and substantially improved in Sight & Sound and replaces the video published in 2019.

Bad news !

Alrosa phases out the last TU-134 model on scheduled service in Russia in May, 2019.

Her bigger sister, the last remaining TU-154 to follow soon thereafter, North Korean aviation tours are put on hold until further notice, Lufthansa stops the operation of its legendary “Tante JU”, the Swiss Super Constellation Flyers Association has trouble finding new investors to keep their Conny in the air, bad news for avgeeks are pouring in on a daily routine.

No wonder we meet the same faces on each of the remaining aviation events, no wonder the circle becomes smaller and smaller day by day, no wonder it is difficult to organize something truly new to keep the fire in our hearts ongoing, no wonder the “fight for the best seats onboard” has become a token of aviation survival in it’s final moments.

Thanks to the persistence of Ekaterina Tropova and Lutz Schönfeld, the impossible has become another realistic option, sampling the smaller and undoubtfully sexier sister of the Tushka family, the elegant rocket, nicknamed “The Pencil” by Interflug insiders, no one less, than the legendary TU-134 !

One of the last remaining commercial operators of a Tupolev TU-134 including a stylish residence for the navigator in the legendary glass nose - Kosmos - made it’s stylish 1981 borne RA-65726 available for a fun sightseeing rotation on the short hop from Moscow-Vnukovo to its astronaut training base in the idyllic city of Kaluga, 150 km South of Moscow.

Off it was on a bright sunny Saturday, end of April 2019, rocketing down to Kaluga in merely 23 minutes, bringing back memories from our more glorious aviation past back in the 70s and 80s, from times when we were young, pure and innocent and flying onboard these submarine like shaped rockets was no less an adventure than today, when we are undoubtfully heading to our 60s and surely intimidating future in special facilities for the elderly and needy.

The return flight proved to be even more eventful including a full left turn over the Southern suburbs of the megapolis city of Moscow into runway 24, providing an unintended realistic idea of what the Soviet perspective of Socialism has planned for the innocent working subject, to be a happy member of society in communist worker’s heaven in monstrous gigantic dimensions.

This video features the outbound flight KSM 9621 onboard TU-134A-3 RA-65726 from Moscow-Vnukovo (VKO) to Kaluga (KLF) on April 27, 2019.

This video is the uncut and original version.

History of Tupolev 134A-3 RA-65726

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Flight details

Flight : KSM 9621
Date : Saturday, April 27, 2019
Aircraft : TU-134A-3
Registration : RA-65726
Former Registrations :
- CCCP-65726 (Flight Division of the Ministry of Heavy Industries)
- RA-65726 (Kosmos, RKK Energiya, Korsar, Kosmos, Aerofreight, Kosmos)
Built : 1981
From : Moscow (VKO)
To : Kaluga (KLF)
Take off : 11:18 h (0818 UTC)
Touch down : 11:41 h (0841 UTC)
Duration flight time : 23 minutes
Flying Distance : 160 km
Altitude : 2.454 / 2.438 / 2.430 / 2.431 m
Speed : 460 / 605 km/h
Flight Captain : Sargsian, Armen
Flight Captain : Katalov, Nikolai
Flight Engineer : Shumkov, Alexey
Navigator : Tinkov, Igor
Cabin Crew : Zblygina, Olyesya
Cabin Crew : Rudich, Julia
Cabin Crew : Sacharova, Irina

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