• Stalins_Spoon
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    3 years ago

    All of them were extremely reliable too, for example the Tupolev Tu-154 could land on a dirt field in sub-zero weather, something its Western equivalent, the Boeing 727, couldn’t dream of doing.

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      There are soviet planes in service to this day! Including the largest cargo plane ever built, of which only one was ever completed. That thing is an absolute beast and still flies occasionally when something would literally not fit in any other airplane.