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Post by walterleo on Apr 25, 2016 14:43:39 GMT
Flight Simulation is also a tool for the play "What IF..." the historians call it "Virtual History". So like in the film "Good Bye Lenin" one can play with the idea: What if not the GDR but Federal Germany would have collapsed? Answer: Lufthansa would have flown Tupolevs.  "Pipe" aka Heiko Flöter has created this wonderful repaint with nice details like the registration D-LACH (lachen= laughter). In reality two Tu-154M´s flew with the German Army´s LUFTWAFFE, one crashed over the South Atlantic colliding with a US Airforce Starlifter: aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19970913-0&lang=deKind regards Walter |
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Post by Herman on Apr 25, 2016 15:04:00 GMT
I suppose those two TU-154's were a carry over from the former DDR??
Herman
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Post by walterleo on Apr 25, 2016 15:24:06 GMT
Hi Hermann: Yes it was from the former GDR´s National Peoples Army (NVA). In reality Germany got 3 Tu-134´s 2 Tu-154M´s 3 IL-62M´s and one AB-310 and variuos military airplanes and also competent crews thanks reunification. The AB-310 remains still in service flying around Mdm. Merkel. It is not known if Arthur Honnegers ghost appears on long night flights in his former VIP airplane!  But one says that technical gremlins are haunting that airplane as well as the AB-310 of the Spanish Government. Pipes Repaints are available here: www.friendlyflusi.at/index.php?page=DownloadDBKind regards Walter P.S.: One says the former GDR MIG 29 crews and airplanes were always top in the NATO exercises and competitions. |
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Post by M.I.B. on May 16, 2016 21:10:00 GMT
What if not the GDR but Federal Germany would have collapsed? Answer: Lufthansa would have flown Tupolevs. Oh, God forbid, it's bad enough as it is anyway  Considering the fact that Interflug was dissolved following the reunification, wouldn't Lufthansa have been disbanded in such a scenario? |
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Post by walterleo on Aug 15, 2023 8:22:33 GMT
Hi Hermann: Yes it was from the former GDR´s National Peoples Army (NVA). In reality Germany got 3 Tu-134´s 2 Tu-154M´s 3 IL-62M´s and one AB-310 and variuos military airplanes and also competent crews thanks reunification. The AB-310 remains still in service flying around Mdm. Merkel. It is not known if Arthur Honnegers ghost appears on long night flights in his former VIP airplane! But one says that technical gremlins are haunting that airplane as well as the AB-310 of the Spanish Government. Kind regards Walter Hi friends! Years ago, I was suspecting that gremlins are hunting the German Government VIP airplanes. But the story went on also with the two A 340-300 which came after the ex-DDR A 310. A long list of breakdowns up to an emergency landing followed also with the A 340-300. The last case was a totally spoiled mission of the foreign minister Mrs. Baerbock to Australia. That mission ended in Abu Dhabi, where the gremlins blocked the flaps two times, two times 80 tons of Jet-fuel had to be dumped to land back. This to the dismay of Mrs. Baerbock "ecologist" Green Party. www.morgenpost.de/politik/article239186849/baerbock-aussenministerin-flugzeug-airbus-panne-luftwaffe.htmlThe German authorities let the laughing public know, that the new bought three A 350 surely will do it better. They should tell that to the gremlins.  Kind regards Walter |
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Considering the fact that Interflug was dissolved following the reunification, wouldn't Lufthansa have been disbanded in such a scenario? 
