Word: ilyushins
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Near by on the apron stood a gleaming twin-engined Ilyushin transport plane, the gift of Moscow's traveling leaders to Burma. Less in evidence but more significant were the other artifacts of achievement left behind: ¶ joint statement of principles flatly aligning Burmese Premier U Nu with Communists on such issues as the surrender of Formosa to the Red Chinese, admission of Peking to the U.N., unconditional prohibition of nuclear weapons...
...harassed his borders, shut off his country's trade. Dictator Tito, an old hand at intrigue himself, survived it all. Now, unrepentant and unintimidated, master in his own land, Tito sat in his open Rolls-Royce and puffed on his long cigarette holder as a silver two-engined Ilyushin-14, bearing Russia's top leaders, touched down and taxied to the newly asphalted ramp. TIME'S Jim Bell reported...
Hospitality Repaid. In Poland, the Daladier-Soustelle-Lebon party got a warm reception. For them, the Polish press had none but friendly words. Last week a Soviet-made twin-engine Ilyushin-12 set them down again at Paris' Le Bourget field. They were loaded with dirndled dolls, folklore records, candy and brief cases bulging with notes...
...better part of ten days, the North Korean air force had been lying low. During the war's first two weeks, busy Russian-built Yak fighters and Ilyushin assault planes had taken a beating from U.S. jet planes. Then the Northern command apparently decided to husband its planes and airmen. U.S. observers guessed that the Reds had either withdrawn their planes to Manchurian bases, or had hidden them in underground hangars built into the Korean mountainside...
...waged its war in the air against negligible Red opposition- a few propeller-driven Yak 3s, 7s, 9s and 15s, some Ilyushin 10s. This week, the Air Force heard what might prove to be serious news. A number of new-type Russian-made jet fighters, said a MacArthur communique, had been sighted in action over Chongju. The Reds' new plane was described as "smaller than the American F-80, with swept-back wings, a stubby fuselage and blunt nose...