"The plane was manufactured in 1987 and has been flown 454 hours and 24 Minutes of the estimated 5000 hours it is capable off." Anyone know why there is a 5000 hour limit?
Probably before the next round of maintenance.
TU-95MS – Soviet Bomber
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#42"The plane was manufactured in 1987 and has been flown 454 hours and 24 Minutes of the estimated 5000 hours it is capable off." Anyone know why there is a 5000 hour limit?
The maintenance service costs at that number of flight hours probably exceeds it's economic value.
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#43weird that it doesn't say they're open for a bitcoin price.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, especially "THE Ukraine" part.
That actually used to be the proper way to refer to the country in English, but has since fallen out of common parlance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#cite_note-merriam-webst...
At some point, it was decided that 'The Ukraine' referred to the Soviet state and 'Ukraine' to the free country.
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#45"The plane was manufactured in 1987 and has been flown 454 hours and 24 Minutes of the estimated 5000 hours it is capable off." Anyone know why there is a 5000 hour limit?
The aluminum skin and wings fatigue.
It's more a certain number of takeoff and landings rather than flight time. After that the metal is too weak and unsafe.
Each time the cabin pressure changes the skin moves. Each time it takes off or lands the wings flex. They probably flex during flight as well.
First link I found: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/04/aircraft_fati...
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#46Anyone wanna go halfsies?
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#47It took me only a few seconds to find on Google Maps: https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=46.921164,32.083704&spn=0.00... Looks like it has a few siblings, so what you're getting is not as exclusive as you might think... That explains the pictures on the eBay auction appearing to be from different fuselages - they actually are (the two rightmost ones on Google Maps). EDIT: Hmmm, maybe not. Perhaps it's the same plane in…
Wow, this is my city! What you found is military airfield Kulbakine, it is functioning (I hear/see jet training flights from time to time).
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#48I love the restrictions in Shipping and Handling: "Ships worldwide. Excludes: Africa, Central America and Caribbean, Oceania, Southeast Asia, South America, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan Republic, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Georgia, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Yemen, Ber…
I wonder why, for example, Slovakia and Hungary are excluded while Czechia and Poland are not.
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#49It took me only a few seconds to find on Google Maps: https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=46.921164,32.083704&spn=0.00... Looks like it has a few siblings, so what you're getting is not as exclusive as you might think... That explains the pictures on the eBay auction appearing to be from different fuselages - they actually are (the two rightmost ones on Google Maps). EDIT: Hmmm, maybe not. Perhaps it's the same plane in…
I found the source of the photo:
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/27416195
Not convinced that the auction is legit.
By the way, the American version (military aviation graveyard) of this is pretty fun to look around at too:
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.1572109,-110.8374108,4128m/d...
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#50I love the restrictions in Shipping and Handling: "Ships worldwide. Excludes: Africa, Central America and Caribbean, Oceania, Southeast Asia, South America, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan Republic, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Georgia, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Yemen, Ber…
I scanned the list to see if North Korea was on there... its not. Great deal for aspiring dictators and human rights violators!