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I got to ride Aeroflot from Shannon airport to the US in the mid 90s. I was a teenager and we were coming home from a school trip to England/Ireland. We kids joked that the Russians were going to throw us in the back of the plane with the chickens. One of the parents on the trip wound up sitting in the back aisle because no seat available for him. Once the plane took off the Russians took out the vodka and caviar. We had candy and crackers/snacks and we had a nice little party. My mom sat beside a Russian guy who spoke English and they had a good conversation. One of the other chaperones a woman, got drunk and hit on a cute Russian. Hammers and sickle logos on everything. Interesting experience 😂. About the same time my future boyfriend was in former East Germany in the army and he slept in the old soviet barracks still full of soviet propaganda posters.
I flew on a Polish LOT airways Tu-154 back in 1988 and it was amazing. Yes, some will compare it to a 727, but I found the experience much more satisfying - Listen to those engines on full take-off power and hear what I mean... Sounds like a fighter and for me at least, I find the Tu-154 to be one of the best looking aircraft of all times as well - It looks right and flies right.
Yeah it’s not like that at all. To compare your situation, in 2024 in the USA today (I assume), to that of an ‘80s Soviet citizen is…. Well, they’re not in the same galaxy. At least you have consistent bread.
I flew on Aeroflot from New York to Moscow for a hockey tournament. The Canadian players drank all the beer and Vodka on the aircraft! Had to tip my hat to them🍺.
Great footage.... early 1980s with the IL-86 in service - but still older versions of the TU-154....there are both A and B versions in the video.....the ultimate Tupolev 154 flew in 1984 and was called The Tu-154M with more powerful Soloviev engines...these engines have a wonderful sound....same engine type will you find on IL-62M and IL-76....👌🙂✈️
I visited the USSR in 1986. We flew Aeroflot from Leningrad to Helsinki. The main thing I remember was the descent. "We are at 30,000 feet and 3 feet from the runway!" *DIVE*
@@UshankaShow it's not that he flew by himself. That was a regular passenger service and he was one of the flight crew members. After he arrived at Haneda he escaped from his accommodation and never returned to Russia until Soviet collapsed.
I remember the day Areoflot got banned from SEA. I grew up under the SeaTac airport literally under the flight path 1/2 mile from the runway. I remember hearing the LOUDEST jet i'd ever heard coming in. sounded like it was literally 50" over head (150-200 was normal) I looked out the window and i saw a plane take the tops of some trees off in the airport buyout zone. Next i heard it power up and take start to climb. It did this twice, i dont think it hit trees the second time but apparently the first time they tried to land on the taxiway. I believe the story was the pilots spoke no English whatsoever and had no idea what they were doing. The aircraft was so badly damaged it sat at SEA for some time. Not sure ehat they did with it.
Western aircraft overflying (or flying into) the USSR were required to have an interpreter with them. I think Soviet aircraft flying abroad had one as well. Both Russian and English are official primary languages of the ICAO, meaning you're not required to know both of them as a pilot. And most obviously indeed don't (especially back then).
@@jwentingSoviet civil aircraft have a workplace for the flight radio operator. On domestic routes, the on-board radio operator was not part of the crew. On international routes, a flight radio operator with knowledge of aviation English was part of the crew./he is also a translator/
It's funny everyone has their own views and right to their own opinions. Here is mine. AEROFLOT every time I have flown with them my experience was better than on some domestic flights here in the US. The service was amazing, the crew offered great service. Some of the best looking flight attendants white glove service and on time every time I have flown with them. As far as the tu 104...it was the dawn of the jet age. The comet didn't do so well either. On top of it all, in the former USSR in so.e areas of thr country the o ly way in or out was by plane.
This is Sheremetyevo airport Moscow which was brand new at this time as it was built for the Moscow Olympics. It was a strange place as originally conceived, they clearly wanted something that showed the world that they had a world class international airport, but at the same time they were not prepared to indulge in the capitalism and freedom of movement that created the need for the big international airports of the 70s and 80s. I used to joke that the committee responsible for the design set off to visit a modern Europen international airport but their flight was diverted to a small regional municipal airport, not realising this the committee returned to Moscow thinking that what was required. However the thing that amused me most was the announcement of Aeroflot arrivals with the words "We are pleased to announce the safe arrival of Aeroflot flight ......", with a real sense of achievement. Then again given the number of holes that their aircraft have made in the ground over the years I guess it was.
No, this is Vnukovo. It even says so in BIG white letters at the beginning : the text you see at 0:02 says (in romanized Russian) AEROPORT VNUKOVO. It was the short haul domestic airport in those days. At that point it would not even have customs or immigration facilities available, and was quite grubby, like everything else in the USSR - because who cares when you're the monopoly? It's not as if taking the train would give you a nicer experience. As for Sheremetyevo, it wasn't so bad, and it was as big as anything else in Europe in the late 70s. Its biggest problem was, like everything else in the USSR, lack of care and maintenance. It could handle all the int'l traffic Moscow had at the time (>10 million) - but customer service and cleanliness was what it was.
There is a really good documentary on UA-cam called AIRPLANESKI which is about Aeroflot right after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The film follows a struggling pilot just trying to make enough money to survive, Flight Attendant training with women who's main goal was to marry a rich businessman and firsthand accounts of western businessmen experiences with flying on the struggling airline as well as their experiences with Russian society in general while traveling.
I used to refuel jet and gasoline powered aircraft, and what you see is actually more than I ever saw a pilot do in the USA... I/we used a bright white porcelain steel bucket to take daily samples for viewing. There is always water present which sinks and is taken out of the tank. Of course other checks are made for any sediment, weird fungal growth, etc. I'd love to see more pilots do as is shown here.
@@UshankaShow flew with them a few years after this, when visiting the USSR for a month. Interesting experience, being treated both like royalty (because we were guests of the USSR, via Intourist) and dirt (because Aeroflot's standards of customer care were so far below anything we were used to in the west that's what it felt like) at the same time. They sure did their best to hide the bad things about the USSR from us, but they clearly didn't know how to do it efficiently. And that was the way with everything we saw. Looked great on the surface but just behind the facade it was clearly a facade and only skin deep. Proudly presenting us with an in flight meal of microwaved unseasoned chicken with salt water for example. I couldn't tell whether they were embarrassed or genuinely proud of their food.
@@edward9674 yes, they did. The technology was known as far back as the 1970s if not earlier (it's basically a derivative of radar after all). While not common in homes maybe, airliners used them as they did in the west before they became commonplace for consumers.
I am taken aback by those early check-in computers at 2.55, the passenger at the counter doesn't seem so high spirited. The gent in a suit at 3.11 accompanied by his wife looks quite smart, maybe a professor, scientist or nuclear scientist. In the rest of the capitalist world he would be taking the 1st class. Most of these travellers I am guessing, would be engineers and technicians of some sort, going from one factory/plant to another. Unlike in the capitalist world it would be mostly business people.
It wasn't that absurdly expensive to travel by plane at that time in the USSR - air travel at that point was about as affordable as it was in the US around the same time (before low-cost carriers and full deregulation). That is to say, it was still quite expensive for the average guy, but not unaffordable - it would cost about twice to three times more more than taking the train - but given the enormous distances - meaning a lot of time lost on the trains - a lot of people would end up paying for the speed anyway. Job trips were quite rare, if you weren't in the military or in something connected with the military or the transportation industry, it was actually very rare to be posted elsewhere, and conventions and conferences and the such were much less common than in the US (they did exist, though). Further, it wasn't engineers and scientists that were best paid, it was taxi drivers, waiters, workers at big and well stocked stores and warehouses... people that could make money through side hustles. If you had access to a car and unlimited petrol, you could have unlimited income. Engineers were actually quite poorly paid, if they weren't in line for some kind of bonus for "exceeding the plan quota" or some other nonsense like that. As for the guy at 3:11, he looks quite unfamiliar with air travel - studying his boarding pass and such - perhaps a guy going on vacation and deciding (who knows, maybe he got his bonus?) to splurge on an air ticket instead of the train?
It was Vnukovo, thus it was mostly short-haul flights - check also the departure board. It was summer, so high demand, mostly to seaside resorts "down south" - that explains the Il86s. Il62s would be used on long and very long haul routes, mostly from Domodedovo or Sheremetyevo.
It's good this film is being preserved. But I can't help thinking the average Soviet citizen would not be flying in one of these to go on vacation. Same as with any country. Air travel is more familiar to the elite than the working class person.
You would be very surprised! For Soviet citizens, flying was ridiculously cheap! I well remember the rural families flying from Tashkent to Moscow on one day, beladen with Vegetables, fruit, eggs, even live chickens to sell on the market. Typically, they would return home on the next day. Aeroflot even had a special freight compartment - "hand baggage not needed on board" - where the Muzhiks and Babushkas could deposit their goods while boarding. Understandably, they were very reluctant to check their stuff in. But live chicken in the cabin could be a nuisance too! A brilliant example of Russian/Soviet Thinking!
@@Ludwig1954 in fact flying was very expensive and reserved usually for official travel only, and of course for foreign "guests of the USSR", aka tourists and people the USSR tried to do business with. Your average Soviet citizen would take a rickety old bus or train for several days rather than an airliner.
@@jwenting I used to have Top Trump cards and the winning card would have been Aeroflot, with its fleet of (if I remember rightly) 380 aircraft, being the biggest airline in the world. Impressive for sure, but it was the only airline for 250 million people in the USSR. Without being able to be scientific about it, the US, with a similar population, must have had several times as much civil aviation capacity at the time with its multitude of airlines, some of which were not much smaller than Aeroflot. Make of that what you will, but I would imagine that many millions of the population at least would, to quote the Soviet adverts, "fly by aeroplane". I don't think it was marginal, but I am guessing that you needed special permission to fly and travel?
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The 3-engine aircraft landing and taking off at the beginning of the video is a Tupolev Tu-154. It was the Soviet equivalent of the Boeing 727.
They virtually copied the Boeing 727!! I rode on one when they had aft doors which were closed soon after!
@@davidlium9338 it was more closely related to the British Trident.
@@jwenting Quite and loud as absolute hell, from what my late Uncle told me. (Berlin, checkpoint-Charlie security back in the day)
@@elliotdryden7560 they were loud, yes. Very few Soviet aircraft were allowed in western Europe because of it
Совершенно разные самолёты
I got to ride Aeroflot from Shannon airport to the US in the mid 90s. I was a teenager and we were coming home from a school trip to England/Ireland. We kids joked that the Russians were going to throw us in the back of the plane with the chickens. One of the parents on the trip wound up sitting in the back aisle because no seat available for him. Once the plane took off the Russians took out the vodka and caviar. We had candy and crackers/snacks and we had a nice little party. My mom sat beside a Russian guy who spoke English and they had a good conversation. One of the other chaperones a woman, got drunk and hit on a cute Russian. Hammers and sickle logos on everything. Interesting experience 😂. About the same time my future boyfriend was in former East Germany in the army and he slept in the old soviet barracks still full of soviet propaganda posters.
Did he become a comrade?
Flew Aeroflot back in the 1980s. The aircraft was an Ilyushin Il62M. Personally, I always felt quite safe on the Soviet built airliners I flew on.
Just because you felt safe didn't mean they were particularly safe (in comparison to Western airlines, which were also unsafer than today).
The IL-62 was big, comfortable and efficient all the way to Moscow non-stop from New York!
American planes = more crashes than soviet,cry loud@@joojoojeejee6058
Awesome footage and I'm digging the music too
The Tupolev 154 is an amazingly rugged and beautifully designed jet.
The music is smoother than creamed corn
If you close your eyes you’d think you were listening to porn music from the 1970s. 🤣
@@nickadams2451 good god; the shot on shiteo quality with hairy chests and busy mustaches.
@@nickadams2451stop exposing Sergey! 👀 👀 😂😏
I flew on a Polish LOT airways Tu-154 back in 1988 and it was amazing. Yes, some will compare it to a 727, but I found the experience much more satisfying - Listen to those engines on full take-off power and hear what I mean... Sounds like a fighter and for me at least, I find the Tu-154 to be one of the best looking aircraft of all times as well - It looks right and flies right.
Thank you very much for this video. Much appreciated.
Wanna get away? Show me your travel authorization…
Sounds like today's dystopia. Or people forgot Covid?
Yeah it’s not like that at all. To compare your situation, in 2024 in the USA today (I assume), to that of an ‘80s Soviet citizen is…. Well, they’re not in the same galaxy. At least you have consistent bread.
I flew on Aeroflot from New York to Moscow for a hockey tournament. The Canadian players drank all the beer and Vodka on the aircraft! Had to tip my hat to them🍺.
That footage is pretty clear for 1984! Very nice!
Great footage.... early 1980s with the IL-86 in service - but still older versions of the TU-154....there are both A and B versions in the video.....the ultimate Tupolev 154 flew in 1984 and was called The Tu-154M with more powerful Soloviev engines...these engines have a wonderful sound....same engine type will you find on IL-62M and IL-76....👌🙂✈️
I visited the USSR in 1986. We flew Aeroflot from Leningrad to Helsinki. The main thing I remember was the descent. "We are at 30,000 feet and 3 feet from the runway!" *DIVE*
Huh? I don't understand?
@@gyllenspetzfamily7993
Hold my vodka tovaris, I'll show you how we land in soviet Russia!
I highly doubt that kind of a dive you descibed was allowed in the airspace of a western country
@@gyllenspetzfamily7993 They didn't descend subtly, like in the west. It was startling, to say the least.
@@janiandelin93 It is a bit of an exaggeration, but they didn't descend subtly. It was startling, to say the least.
Interesting video, showing the finest days of Aviation in the fmr USSR, in the mid 1980s. Thanks .
...interesting montage... music and images... highlights an era.... 😊....
Very well done.
The 4 engine aircraft are Ilyushin 96s, similar to an Airbus A310 or A300 or a less powerful Boeing 767.
They are actually Il-86s. The Il-96 didn't fly with Aeroflot until the after the Soviet Union had collapsed.
The IL-86 was very underpowered - it's very exciting and scarry to see a full loaded 86 "crawl into the sky" after take off.....
I flew this airline before. It was awesome
My father was a pilot for Aeroflot in the 60s. He was flying TU-114 to Tokyo and defected to Japan.
Now, that's an interesting story! I tried to find any info on internet but without success
@@UshankaShow it's not that he flew by himself. That was a regular passenger service and he was one of the flight crew members. After he arrived at Haneda he escaped from his accommodation and never returned to Russia until Soviet collapsed.
Wondering if in a classless society... was there 1st class seating...??
Great footage. Accompanied by some good, funky grooves!!
I remember the day Areoflot got banned from SEA. I grew up under the SeaTac airport literally under the flight path 1/2 mile from the runway. I remember hearing the LOUDEST jet i'd ever heard coming in. sounded like it was literally 50" over head (150-200 was normal) I looked out the window and i saw a plane take the tops of some trees off in the airport buyout zone. Next i heard it power up and take start to climb. It did this twice, i dont think it hit trees the second time but apparently the first time they tried to land on the taxiway.
I believe the story was the pilots spoke no English whatsoever and had no idea what they were doing. The aircraft was so badly damaged it sat at SEA for some time. Not sure ehat they did with it.
Western aircraft overflying (or flying into) the USSR were required to have an interpreter with them. I think Soviet aircraft flying abroad had one as well.
Both Russian and English are official primary languages of the ICAO, meaning you're not required to know both of them as a pilot. And most obviously indeed don't (especially back then).
@@jwentingSoviet civil aircraft have a workplace for the flight radio operator. On domestic routes, the on-board radio operator was not part of the crew. On international routes, a flight radio operator with knowledge of aviation English was part of the crew./he is also a translator/
Yep, 80's air travel.
They still use the hammer and sickle logo
Nice video😊
Flew on a Tupalev once to Bulgaria back in the late 80s. Reminds me of that.
Superb. ❤
It's funny everyone has their own views and right to their own opinions. Here is mine. AEROFLOT every time I have flown with them my experience was better than on some domestic flights here in the US. The service was amazing, the crew offered great service. Some of the best looking flight attendants white glove service and on time every time I have flown with them. As far as the tu 104...it was the dawn of the jet age. The comet didn't do so well either. On top of it all, in the former USSR in so.e areas of thr country the o ly way in or out was by plane.
This is Sheremetyevo airport Moscow which was brand new at this time as it was built for the Moscow Olympics. It was a strange place as originally conceived, they clearly wanted something that showed the world that they had a world class international airport, but at the same time they were not prepared to indulge in the capitalism and freedom of movement that created the need for the big international airports of the 70s and 80s. I used to joke that the committee responsible for the design set off to visit a modern Europen international airport but their flight was diverted to a small regional municipal airport, not realising this the committee returned to Moscow thinking that what was required. However the thing that amused me most was the announcement of Aeroflot arrivals with the words "We are pleased to announce the safe arrival of Aeroflot flight ......", with a real sense of achievement. Then again given the number of holes that their aircraft have made in the ground over the years I guess it was.
No, this is Vnukovo. It even says so in BIG white letters at the beginning : the text you see at 0:02 says (in romanized Russian) AEROPORT VNUKOVO. It was the short haul domestic airport in those days. At that point it would not even have customs or immigration facilities available, and was quite grubby, like everything else in the USSR - because who cares when you're the monopoly? It's not as if taking the train would give you a nicer experience. As for Sheremetyevo, it wasn't so bad, and it was as big as anything else in Europe in the late 70s. Its biggest problem was, like everything else in the USSR, lack of care and maintenance. It could handle all the int'l traffic Moscow had at the time (>10 million) - but customer service and cleanliness was what it was.
Flew from Shannon Ireland to Minsk in 93’. Very interesting flight on Aeroflot Just saying.
This is so cool!!!!!
They STLL have not ditched the HAMMER AND SICKLE!!!
Love the groovy music!
Good old time in russia
Great video. Good to see control operations clips.
There is a really good documentary on UA-cam called AIRPLANESKI which is about Aeroflot right after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The film follows a struggling pilot just trying to make enough money to survive, Flight Attendant training with women who's main goal was to marry a rich businessman and firsthand accounts of western businessmen experiences with flying on the struggling airline as well as their experiences with Russian society in general while traveling.
Those poor ladies at the ticket counter look like the most unsung heroes of the whole system.
I want the car with the stairs!
To my comrade Terry Jensen & best of luck as CEO of a Russian company!Who would have guessed you heading the Corporation.Brava Jensen!
Then, in 2023 China launched their first commercial airplane...
2:38 fuel quality control 😂
I used to refuel jet and gasoline powered aircraft, and what you see is actually more than I ever saw a pilot do in the USA... I/we used a bright white porcelain steel bucket to take daily samples for viewing. There is always water present which sinks and is taken out of the tank. Of course other checks are made for any sediment, weird fungal growth, etc. I'd love to see more pilots do as is shown here.
Chances are a 15 year old Jeremy Spake is in that footage somewhere!
We always said Aeroflop, ride one and find out why
Aeroflot, such a nice sleek name.
Air-Fleet
@@UshankaShow flew with them a few years after this, when visiting the USSR for a month. Interesting experience, being treated both like royalty (because we were guests of the USSR, via Intourist) and dirt (because Aeroflot's standards of customer care were so far below anything we were used to in the west that's what it felt like) at the same time.
They sure did their best to hide the bad things about the USSR from us, but they clearly didn't know how to do it efficiently.
And that was the way with everything we saw. Looked great on the surface but just behind the facade it was clearly a facade and only skin deep.
Proudly presenting us with an in flight meal of microwaved unseasoned chicken with salt water for example. I couldn't tell whether they were embarrassed or genuinely proud of their food.
@@jwenting They had microwaves in the USSR?
@@edward9674 yes, they did. The technology was known as far back as the 1970s if not earlier (it's basically a derivative of radar after all).
While not common in homes maybe, airliners used them as they did in the west before they became commonplace for consumers.
I am taken aback by those early check-in computers at 2.55, the passenger at the counter doesn't seem so high spirited. The gent in a suit at 3.11 accompanied by his wife looks quite smart, maybe a professor, scientist or nuclear scientist. In the rest of the capitalist world he would be taking the 1st class. Most of these travellers I am guessing, would be engineers and technicians of some sort, going from one factory/plant to another. Unlike in the capitalist world it would be mostly business people.
It wasn't that absurdly expensive to travel by plane at that time in the USSR - air travel at that point was about as affordable as it was in the US around the same time (before low-cost carriers and full deregulation). That is to say, it was still quite expensive for the average guy, but not unaffordable - it would cost about twice to three times more more than taking the train - but given the enormous distances - meaning a lot of time lost on the trains - a lot of people would end up paying for the speed anyway. Job trips were quite rare, if you weren't in the military or in something connected with the military or the transportation industry, it was actually very rare to be posted elsewhere, and conventions and conferences and the such were much less common than in the US (they did exist, though). Further, it wasn't engineers and scientists that were best paid, it was taxi drivers, waiters, workers at big and well stocked stores and warehouses... people that could make money through side hustles. If you had access to a car and unlimited petrol, you could have unlimited income. Engineers were actually quite poorly paid, if they weren't in line for some kind of bonus for "exceeding the plan quota" or some other nonsense like that. As for the guy at 3:11, he looks quite unfamiliar with air travel - studying his boarding pass and such - perhaps a guy going on vacation and deciding (who knows, maybe he got his bonus?) to splurge on an air ticket instead of the train?
Woops my last comment got posted on the wrong UA-cam channel.
It's strange that virtually all aircraft shown are either the Tu-154 or the Il-86. Not one single Il-62, which was a key part of the SU fleet.
Maybe because the movie was filmed at the domestic flights area
@@UshankaShow Surely the Il-62 was used on domestic routes?
@@Tom-xy9yy No idea, to be honest. I was never an airplane guy
@@UshankaShow :-)
It was Vnukovo, thus it was mostly short-haul flights - check also the departure board. It was summer, so high demand, mostly to seaside resorts "down south" - that explains the Il86s. Il62s would be used on long and very long haul routes, mostly from Domodedovo or Sheremetyevo.
That music ain’t from 1984
Whaddaya want? Rimsky Korsakov??? But he wasn't from 1984 either. And anyway Duranski² or Gyorgei Goes to Peterburg wouldn't have cut the горчица!
@@roberthorwat6747 I want the name of the song used
Aaaawwwwwww yeeeaaah.
Brown chicken Brown cow
It's good this film is being preserved. But I can't help thinking the average Soviet citizen would not be flying in one of these to go on vacation. Same as with any country. Air travel is more familiar to the elite than the working class person.
You would be very surprised! For Soviet citizens, flying was ridiculously cheap!
I well remember the rural families flying from Tashkent to Moscow on one day, beladen with Vegetables, fruit, eggs, even live chickens to sell on the market. Typically, they would return home on the next day.
Aeroflot even had a special freight compartment - "hand baggage not needed on board" - where the Muzhiks and Babushkas could deposit their goods while boarding. Understandably, they were very reluctant to check their stuff in. But live chicken in the cabin could be a nuisance too!
A brilliant example of Russian/Soviet Thinking!
That's why most people went to the Black Sea on the train because flying was ridiculously cheap. Please, no Sovok propaganda.
@@Ludwig1954 in fact flying was very expensive and reserved usually for official travel only, and of course for foreign "guests of the USSR", aka tourists and people the USSR tried to do business with.
Your average Soviet citizen would take a rickety old bus or train for several days rather than an airliner.
@@jwenting I used to have Top Trump cards and the winning card would have been Aeroflot, with its fleet of (if I remember rightly) 380 aircraft, being the biggest airline in the world. Impressive for sure, but it was the only airline for 250 million people in the USSR. Without being able to be scientific about it, the US, with a similar population, must have had several times as much civil aviation capacity at the time with its multitude of airlines, some of which were not much smaller than Aeroflot. Make of that what you will, but I would imagine that many millions of the population at least would, to quote the Soviet adverts, "fly by aeroplane". I don't think it was marginal, but I am guessing that you needed special permission to fly and travel?
Flying on a plane in Ussr was for everyone dude
When did Aeroflot buy Boeing 727s? 😀
Look at that lovely Boeing 727... oops, Tupolev TU-154. No need for capitalist plane in the Soviet Union.
A little bit boring.
0:55 ….i didn’t know Danny Le Rue worked as an aircraft controller !
The computers look straight out of the "Fallout" series.