SPOTM August 2016 - Passenger airliners built in soviet bloc

[andygolfer]

This is the SPOTM (Special Photo Of The Month) competition for June 2016 and the subject is 'Soviet bloc built passenger airliners'.

The subject of your entry should be one or more civil registered soviet built passenger carrying airliner built in the countries of the former Soviet bloc or it’s successors, the subject(s) must be registered as a civilian operated aircraft (or retired as such) when the photograph was taken so civil registered passenger carrying government aircraft are acceptable.

Photography Competition Rules :-

1. Only one entry per user, unless posting on behalf of another person who is unable to do so themselves (children for example). If this is the case, please state so on your entry..

2. The photo may have been taken on any date, it does not have to be taken in the month of the competition

3. The image can be photo-shopped to some extent, levels changes, cropping, sharpening etc. are all acceptable. The photograph must retain it’s initial subject though, don’t make it something it’s not. HDR images are not acceptable. If you are unsure, please PM a moderator.

4. The competition will remain open until 23.59 (UK time) on the 1st September 2016, to enable anyone with a last minute entry some breathing space.

5. Voting will be conducted by a poll open to all the membership shortly after the closure of the competition.

6. The decision of the moderating team is final.

7. All images must be posted in line with the usual CA posting rules (size etc.), please read them if you're not sure how to post.

8. The rules may be subject to change, and these will be posted on this thread.

9. Please also embed the images and not links to images, if you're not sure how to do it then shout up and someone will sort it out. It is permissible to change your entry before the closing date.

10. Do not comment on other member's photos.

11. A brief description of where and when the image was taken would be nice too.

If you have any questions please PM me

Good luck everyone.
Andrew

[andygolfer]

and to start it off I'll post this one for now taken 4 years ago to the month at Stansted. Il.62 RA-86466 departing after bringing in Russian government personnel (President Putin included I believe) to watch some of the Olympics , Stansted had many extra flights associated with the Olympics during the last week of July and first week of August 2012.

1863 IL62 86466 t-off by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

lets see lots of entries (I admit I didn't have hundreds to choose from on this occasion)
good luck everybody

Andy

[Mike s]

a very difficult subject for me this month,this is my only photo of a russian built passenger aircraft!
RA-64022,EDI,6.2.09 by Mike stanners, on Flickr

[phat01]

here is my attempt and i think the only russian airliner i have a picture of

EI-FWA by Phil Salter, on Flickr

[BringBackEGDG]

I will try my luck with this scan of a colour slide that was taken 45 years ago this month.
Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 LZ-TUC at Heathrow 28th August 1971.
1971-08-28-013FS LZ-TUC by Stephen Rendle, on Flickr

[niallsaviation]

See if it gets a vote
Scan from a print

DDR-STO by Niall Moran, on Flickr


Taken in Dublin In The Mid 80's

[AlanP]

Taken at Manchester in 08

IMG_3224 by Alan Parker68, on Flickr

[keithnewsome]

Few and far between this month .... So RA-96015, IL-96, just landed at Sharm el Sheik December 2012.

[mbo570]

my take..taken in Malta in 2012


RA-640492 - TU 204

[Wallie]

My contribution for this month.
The Antonov 74. Special visit to Brussels, a few years ago. Lucky me, I was there......

[Mike]

Il-18 D-AOAO (originally DDR-STF) of Interflug renamed "Tigerflug" for the 1991 RIAT Tiger meet at Fairford which arrived full of German aviation enthusiasts..................

[Paultojo]

recovered_31991447 by Paul Harvey, on Flickr

A lovely winters afternoon at Belfast

[LondonEye]

An Aeroflot Sukhoi SSJ-100 taken on the tarmac at Krakow 2014 whilst boarding an EasyJet !
Pete.

Sukhoi Su-100 Aeroflot RA-89022 Krakow

[PorkScratching]

I was hoping to get time to fire up the scanner for this competition, but I've not had chance. So here's something digital instead, a CAAC Il-62 at the China Aviation Museum near Beijing:


CAAC Ilyushin Il-62 by Nick Challoner, on Flickr

[andygolfer]

the voting for this competition is now closed and it's congratulations to the winner, Paultojo with his Hemus Air Tu.154 at Belfast

also congratulations to AlanP who was second with his Atlant-Soyuz Tu.154 at Manchester

and to Wallie who finished 3rd with the Antonov 74 at Brussels

all the winners have been posted in the Hall of Fame here: http://www.civilianaviation.co.uk/forum ... 10&t=26218

thank you to everybody who entered and/or voted.

andrew