I only few once aboard of a Russian manufactured aircraft – a Россия’s Ty-154M to be precise – and even if it was a pretty scary experience, I highly respect Russian aircrafts. Among those aircrafts, the Iliouchine Il-76 is beautiful. Its first flight was in 1971, more than 900 aircrafts have been produced until 2005! It’s cruising at 750 – 780 km/h, at [...]

If I ask You “what would be the technology’s empire?”, what would You respond? Emperor Palpatine’s empire? The USA? Napoleon’s empire? Well those three responds are right, but I have something else in mind: Russia – or a part of the now dead CCCP. I agree, Czar’s Russia was well known for its middle age society and its lack of [...]