Word: ilyushin
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...five-year Russo-Indian trade deal, helped get a slow-building but photogenic propaganda Russian steel mill for India, did a bang-up job of setting up Bulganin and Khrushchev's triumphal Indian tour, and even gave Nehru, on behalf of the Kremlin, a personal twin-engined Ilyushin plane. Said one Indian editor: "He didn't hit the headlines all the time, but he made a deep impression where it counted in the government...
...four-jet, 500-10-600 m.p.h. TU-110s the 2,700 miles from Moscow to Irkutsk, may put the plane on longer runs to replace the TU-IO4. For ranges up to 3,000 miles, Aeroflot has shown off prototypes of two 400-m.p.h., four-engined turboprops - Ilyushin's 100-passenger IL-18 Moskva and Antonov's 126-passenger Ukraina-that resemble Lockheed's Electra, now being test-flown. Aeroflot's highest hopes for capturing a large chunk of the foreign market rest on Tupolev's four-engined turboprop, swept-wing TU-114, a double...
...guests, Nasser put on a pointed display of his 4th Armored Division-four serried ranks of Russian tanks, self-propelled artillery, tank destroyers and personnel carriers 75 abreast, over which flew a flight of 15 Ilyushin jet bombers and ten MIGs. "You see, we still do have an army," said one Egyptian major. But after 17 hours of talk, including a private talk between Nasser and Saud that lasted until 3 one morning, the conference dissolved in a mist of platitudes...
...Prime Minister has never been a man to sit long behind a desk. For three whirlwind weeks before the elections (which would last for almost three weeks) he swept across the nation, traveling by jeep, river steamer, sky-blue Cadillac, and his own Russian Ilyushin plane Messenger of the Clouds (the gift of Bulganin and Khrushchev) to address crowds that sometimes numbered...
...critical question of what happened to Egypt's air force, Nasser insisted that, except for one Ilyushin that cracked up on a takeoff, all of Egypt's bombers had escaped to other Arab lands. In addition, said he, some of his MIG fighters had taken refuge in Syria. Among the fighters that he had packed off to Syria, Nasser revealed, were some of the new twinjet, supersonic MIG 17s. "Nobody knew we had any 17s," he boasted, "until one day early in the fighting, when three of them were surprised near an airfield in the Canal Zone...