One of the most memorable trips I have been on was a photo tour of the Moscow Airports in June & July 2002, courtesy of George Pick Travel. I've recently been refreshing a few images from the airports visited and I thought I would share. Please excuse the odd military content....
Day 1 - 28th June Chkalovsky "Star City" - After a long wait to get onto the ramp we were whisked onboard our bus to the Gagarin ramp where we were given privileged access to walk the line of aircraft and board the zero gravity IL76. Unfortunately we didn't manage to get to the active Russian Air Force ramp... another day perhaps:
RA-85655 Tupolev 154 at Moscow Chkalovsky Air Base on 28th June 2002 (scanned slide) by Illusion450, on FlickrThis is the IL76 we were allowed to crawl all over...
RA-78770 Ilyushin IL76 at Moscow Chkalovsky Air Base on 28th June 2002 (scanned slide) by Illusion450, on Flickr
RA-76766 Ilyushin 76 at Moscow Chkalovsky Air Base on 28th June 2002 (scanned slide) by Illusion450, on Flickr
01 Blue Tupolev 134 at Moscow Chkalovsky Air Base on 28th June 2002 (scanned slide) by Illusion450, on FlickrThis Tu-16 was hiding in the bushes behind the ramp:
CCCP-42355 Tupolev Tu-16 at Moscow Chkalovsky Air Base on 28th June 2002 (scanned slide) by Illusion450, on FlickrOnwards to Domodedovo where access was courtesy of owners East Line. Very little of the field went uncovered with amazing access on foot to the entire cargo /maintenance areas and a long stretch spent at the edge of a live taxi way:
RA-86530 Ilyushin 62 at Moscow Domodedovo 28th June 2002 (scanned slide) by Illusion450, on Flickr
RA-86091 Ilyushin 86 at Moscow Domodedovo 28th June 2002 (scanned slide) by Illusion450, on Flickr
RA-42320 Yakolev 42 at Moscow Domodedovo 28th June 2002 (scanned slide) by Illusion450, on Flickr
RA-76792 Ilyushin 76 at Moscow Domodedovo 28th June 2002 (scanned slide) by Illusion450, on Flickr
4K-AZ17 Tupolev 154M at Moscow Domodedovo 28th June 2002 (scanned slide) by Illusion450, on FlickrDay 2- Zhukovsky - Mainly covered from the bus during a high speed escorted drive-by! (so pics are through glass)... but a short tour on foot of the Gromov ramp was also had:
RA-98117 Antonov 12 at Moscow Zhukovsky Airport 29th June 2002 (scanned slide) by Illusion450, on Flickr
CCCP-98114 Yakolev 40 at Moscow Zhukovsky Airport 29th June 2002 (scanned slide) by Illusion450, on Flickr
RA-74052 Antonov 74 at Moscow Zhukovsky Airport 29th June 2002 (scanned slide) by Illusion450, on Flickr
RA-86515 Ilyushin IL62 at Moscow Zhukovsky Airport 29th June 2002 (scanned slide) by Illusion450, on FlickrThis IL14 now resides on the perimeter of Zurich Airport as the centre-piece of a restaurant:
01146 Ilyushin IL14 at Moscow Zhukovsky Airport 29th June 2002 (scanned slide) by Illusion450, on Flickr
RA-11813 Antonov 12 at Moscow Zhukovsky Airport 29th June 2002 (scanned slide) by Illusion450, on FlickrThe afternoon was spent at Sheremetyevo on what was to be the first of two visits during the trip. Access was granted to part of the ramp near Sheremetyevo 1 with the remainder of the afternoon spent on the perimeter photographing landers:
IMG_0005 by Illusion450, on Flickr
IMG_0012 by Illusion450, on Flickr
RA-86141 Ilyushin 86 at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport 29th June 2002 (scanned slide) by Illusion450, on FlickrDay 3 at Vnukovo & Ostafievo, Day 4 at Bykovo and Myatchkovo and Day 5 back at Sheremetyevo to follow...
In the meantime, the album of this trip can be found at:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/56388143@ ... 355662067/
Thanks for looking.
