behind the 'Iron curtain'

Davidth88

People back in the 80s I was on a spotting trip behind the Iron curtain. Which was quite a feat a d involved visas ... guides and all sorts of palaver

Anyway we were driving along and the guide told us to stop ... He knew our interest anyway this was a side of a hill in the middle of the Hungarian countryside.

This is what we found along with other abandoned stuff....20150502_145310.jpg

10 pts if you can guess what it is ... and it is a trick question

eatmyshorts

Davidth88 wrote: »

People back in the 80s I was on a spotting trip behind the Iron curtain. Which was quite a feat a d involved visas ... guides and all sorts of palaver

Anyway we were driving along and the guide told us to stop ... He knew our interest anyway this was a side of a hill in the middle of the Hungarian countryside.

This is what we found along with other abandoned stuff....20150502_145310.jpg

10 pts if you can guess what it is ... and it is a trick question

Li-2?

Davidth88

Damn I was hoping for a few guesses of c47 or dc3 .... yep we were allowed all over it .. got the con number off it was a genuine one . I'll hunt out a few more photos from that trip. The only time we got in trouble was in East Germany when we took photos of a steam train the guide went bonkers.

eatmyshorts

10 pts.... pints... I think you said my reward was.

Tenger

Davidth88 wrote: »

.....The only time we got in trouble was in East Germany when we took photos of a steam train the guide went bonkers.

Don't let the capitalist pig dogs see our stronk technology!!!!

smurfjed

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Malev---Hungarian/Douglas-(Lisunov)-Li-2T/2504516/L/ Amazing to see these still flying

Davidth88

Tenger wrote: »

Don't let the capitalist pig dogs see our stronk technology!!!!

Yep had hassle crossing from Czechlosovakia into East Germany but found a case of coke (drink) we were carrying made the crossing easy. At dresden we found a line if an 12 and Berlin gave us the north Korean il62 which was rather nice

keith16

Tenger wrote: »

Don't let the capitalist pig dogs see our stronk technology!!!!

East Germany can into train?

Crasp

That's pretty cool... that exact plane is actually parked up at the entrance to budapest airport for the last several years. There is a small field with a few old malev aircraft.




http://www.luchtzak.be/forums/viewtopic.php?t=49054

fleet_admiral

Do Malev fly into Dublin?

Tenger

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Do Malev fly into Dublin?

No. Malev went to the wall 2-3 (?) years ago.