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• Type: SPH
• Class: aircraft
• Part Count: 91
• Pure Stock

Description

A stock aircraft called Ilyushin IL-62.

And we continue with the series of soviet passenger and cargo aircraft ;-). This is the IL-62, a large 4-engined long range plane, which is holding the world record for landing on the shortest runway: In 1989 the east-german Pilot Kallbach and his crew landed one Interflug IL-62 on the only 900 metres long grass runway located in Stölln/Rhinow in the former GDR. This was a long planned action to honor the flight pioneer Otto Lilienthal who did test his apparatures there. The plane now is a museum, and I admire it every weekend when we take out our sailplanes for flying…

Back to my craft: It is almost the size as the original one, flies really nice and is easy to land. As always, 1 toggles flaps and 2 toggles airbrakes. Because of the engines used, it lacks reverse thrust. May be changed later in an IL-62M version ;-)

Stats: my KSP-version // Original IL-62
Weight: 105 tonnes // 70 tonnes dry, 165 max
Length: 50.6 metres // 53.1 metres
Wingspan: 40.8 metres // 43.2 metres
Heigth: 10.7 metres // 12.3 metres
Thrust: 4*130kN // 4*113kN
Built in the SPH in KSP version 1.3.