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I'm beginning to think it's older than it looks.
Engines these days are much more close-coupled. However, they do appear to be high bypass fans.
Also very unusual to have leading-edge devices above the engine pylons
The tailplane is rather small too.
rabbit rabbit rabbit.....
Engines these days are much more close-coupled. However, they do appear to be high bypass fans.
Also very unusual to have leading-edge devices above the engine pylons
The tailplane is rather small too.
rabbit rabbit rabbit.....
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S'land, not an Embraer product.
RR...no...in fact this aircraft never made it into production. It was offered in 2 completely different design options (this being one of the two) but neither of them were produced.
RR...no...in fact this aircraft never made it into production. It was offered in 2 completely different design options (this being one of the two) but neither of them were produced.
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Ah well.. I'll sit back and observe because I've run out of ideas. My suspicion it is a Chinese/US or Japanese/US project but.......... RR
I'll check back later......
I'll check back later......
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Well done ifonly. It is indeed the Yak-46, one of 2 designs submitted by Yakovlev in 1990 to replace the TU-134. See Flight article:
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchi...?search=yak 46
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http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchi...?search=yak 46
Welcome to the forum ifonly...you can now post your own image to the forum, or, if nothing to post, declare Open House.
You have control
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It'll have to be 'Open House' as I may not be around for a few weeks.
Have to confess your clues prompted me to Google "TU-134 replacement" which came up with the page in the link !
Have to confess your clues prompted me to Google "TU-134 replacement" which came up with the page in the link !
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With respect, my source of information was Flight, the article link that I provided made no reference to a suffix for either model of Yak-46. As far as I am concerned ifonly answered the challenge correctly according to the info I had.
ifonly has declared Open House.
ifonly has declared Open House.
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