• Aircraft:

  Tupolev Tu-142MK-E

• Reg: IN317 photos
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• Airline: India - Navy
• Photo Date: Feb 29, 2020
• Uploaded: Sep 10, 2022
• Other Location - New Town, Kolkata, India

Working into the evening on reassembling the last flying Tu-142M that served with INAS 312 “Albatross” to become the second such museum at Kolkata after the one at Visakhapatnam. The outermost sections of the wings have not been attached, and the nacelles for the massive Kuznetsov NK-12MP turboprop engines are being readied for attachment. The reassembly was no easy task. This was the progress prior to the pandemic lockdown in March 2020.

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The Tu-142's huge refuelling boom points in the direction of 240° magnetic amidst this ethereal dusk penumbra

Vishal Jolapara IN317

12,075 34 1 Tupolev Tu-142MK-E

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Working into the evening on reassembling the last flying Tu-142M that served with INAS 312 “Albatross” to become the second such museum at Kolkata after the one at Visakhapatnam

Arjun Sarup IN317

1,512 11 0 Tupolev Tu-142MK-E

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