THE SIGHT & THE SOUND 7/10 : Balkan Bulgarian TU-154M LZ-BTW documentary from SOF to Bourgas
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- Опубликовано: 20 июл 2015
- Almost two decades ago, in September 1996, my family and I flew all the way from South Korea to visit the Black Sea island of Nessebar in Bulgaria. How could I then miss the opportunity to sample life onboard on Balkan's Antonov 24s, which were disappearing at alarming speed in Eastern Europe ?
There were more surprises on this visit, than I have expected.
Yet, my brand new SHARP camera broke down frequently, not to mention the batteries. This camera was the first generation of video cameras with digital recording. Obviously the digital recording technology 18 years ago was still at an experimental stage. The video head got worn out immediately. After a few seconds the camera turned hot and taping was interrupted, especially during the most important phases of taping : Take off and landing. Eighteen years later, I tried to assemble the fractions of this puzzle of video fragments as best as I could.
This is the result.
This documentary features the fifth flight of seven on this visit.
Originally the return flight was to be operated by AN-24, this flight was an international feeder onto Bourgas and I was offered an earlier lift, so I accepted. This flight was to be operated by a TU-154, my first TU-154 experience onboard Balkan Bulgarian Airlines, and it turned out to be a really unpleasant experience onboard a Balkan Bulgarian Airlines flight, the second unpleasant experience in two days. The crew strictly prohibited any use of cameras on board due to "company regulations", so all footage has been made under conditions of utmost discretion and leaves a lot to be desired. Nevertheless, despite the unfortunate circumstances, I decided to go public, in view of the historic value of this material. A lot of editing and cutting scenes was unevitable.
I hope, the esteemed viewer will understand and appreciate.
Enjoy with me the Sights & Sounds of Classic Aviation.
Thanks for watching.
Flight details
Flight : LZ 453
Date : Thursday, September 19, 1996
Aircraft : TU-154M
Registration : LZ-BTW
Later registrations :
- EP-LBI (Kish Air, Iran)
- LZ-HMW (Albanian Airlines, BH Air Balkan Holidays, Hemus Air)
- EP-MCX (Iran Air Tour Airline)
Built : 1985
From : Sofia (SOF)
To: Bourgas (BOJ)
Take off : 13.39 h (1039 UTC)
Touch down : 14.11 h (1111 UTC)
Flying time : 32 minutes
Flying distance : 470 km
Captain : Lilov, Lilcho
Эх, приятно увидеть наш старый советский любимый лайнер Ту-154М, звуков движков просто песня!:)
The sound of those engines are amazing 👏
12/2022 Alabama USA: I love that you provide so much information about these wonderful aircraft that you document for us. Very interesting and enjoyable. Thank You.
I flew on one of these great aircraft - London Heathrow to Sofia also a few days later on a Tu134 to Burgas - in 1988. I was allowed to stay in the cockpit on landing at Sofia airport - I will never forget it.
I flew Air Balkan TU-154 from Oslo to Bourgas around 1998. A great experience. The female pilot flew it like a fighter jet. Nose streight up after take off and the landings was hard and fast, with the plane in a streight position, so all the wheels hit the ground at the same time.
My seat was at the left wing emergency exit. The emergency exit door leaked so much air after takeoff that I thought I might have to Ask for another seat. But a few thousand feet up, it made a loudish suction sound and finally made a seal😄
At a constant 950 km/h the flight was a full hour faster than it would have been with a standard charter 737.
A plane with a real soul and a experience I will always remember.
Once I flew the 154 from Sofia to Bangkok via Dubai and Colombo! 20 years ago!
I remember
Очень понравилось, хорошее видео и музейный Ил-14 на десерт!
The sound of the Soloviev engines is impressive! I will never forget it. Thank you for the great video.
This is the steepest TU-154 takeoff I've seen. Great video!
It is clear that the flight was almost empty. Hence the steep takeoff. It also used very little of the runway to get airborne.
I just wanted to say thanks. My grandfather was a TU-154 captain for Balkan and this video brought back a lot of memories.
my grandfather flew the tu-154 for Balkan too
No good
That rate of climb!! 👀
Vintage vídeos are the best.
I flew in a TU154 with Aeroflot from London Gatwick to Moscow. It looked like an old bus inside, rattled and creaked a lot, but it could take off in a short distance and climb fast. Seemed to have plenty of power and solid build for those gravel runways! Very impressive 👍🤨
Great video! Such a powerful takeoff - Only ~20 seconds
I flew on one of these in 1988 To Sofia from LHR. I was 14 at the time and it was my first flight in a non Boeing aircraft. I remember it being more impressive and larger than the B727's I was used to flying on at that time..I was allowed to stay in the cockpit as the plane descended into Sofia.. a magical experience.. A week later I also flew from Sofia to Burgas but on a Turbo prop... It afforded great views of the landscape on route to the Black Sea.
Запуск движков- ПРОСТО ПЕСНЯ !
Thanks for all the excellent videos you share of the flights and the history of each airplane, really enjoy that. Thanks again..
Ach da fühl ich wieder wie ein kleiner Junge wenn ich diese Video sehe!!! Als ich 12 Jahre alt war,bin ich das erste mal mit der BALKAN Tu 154 geflogen,was für ein Erlebnis !!! Dieser Sound der Triebwerke,der Start,die Landung,ich war sogar im Cockpit,einfach Momente fürs leben ! Danke für das Upload für dieses tolle Video! Wie eine Zeitreise !
These are some really fast planes. Great video!
Very nice sound!!!
Very interesting document, thank you ! Built in '85 ? One of the first 154M, certainly.
Best plane in the world. The only disadvantages it's not automated. You have to pilot in manually and should pilot it precisely without mistakes. But sound is the best!!!
I'm bulgarian, so here are some translations if you need them:
1:42 Today, an airplane Tupolev Tu-154 from bulgarian airline Balkan will fly the line Sofia - Burgas. Please fasten your seatbelts before takeoff, (something about the seats here that I can't translate to English) and the tables in vertical mode and to not smoke during the entire flight. Thank you.
10:22 Dear passengers, we just landed at Burgas airport. Remain seated until the plane's full stop. Thank you for flying with Balkan, the crew would wish you a pleasant day.
The plane was unladen. 20 seconds to rotation is very fast. When it's full, it's usually 30-35 seconds.
Amazing
Awesome!!! So cool.
I always enjoy watching your videos,keep it up!BIG LIKE!! :)
***** You're welcome :) I would be very happy if you could watch my latest videos :)
ilove Balkan Bulgarian Airlines I from burgas💚❤
Петко Иванов
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ㅏ8ㅐ88888,ㅣ
Петко Иванов аз съм от Несебър
Die Flughäfen voller Tu-154, das waren herrliche Zeiten, die möchte ich zurück.
Mit Balkan Bulgarian bin ich etliche Male geflogen.
Ohh gott ne bloss nicht...
1967 to 1971 only flew on Balkan Il18s, TU 134, anf Antonov 26s. Did experience a flight on a Yak (similar to a DC3) Sofia to Varna, some of the passengers stood at the back of the aircraft smoking and conversing; from take off to landing in Varna (no cabin crew)
Can't believe they used a Tu-154 for a tiny domestic flight like SOF-BURG.
Fantastic airline and aircraft, but clearly it was not very profitable when it entered the free market in 1989
***** Oh, I see. Thanks for clearing that up.
+Армии на света
They used more and more western planes, and than they died.
But in some airlines the Tu-154 survives until today.
Paka1918 I know. 767 really showed have far they came. The worst thing was Balkan Bulgarian never had to die, it just needed to modernise, not just in terms of fleet, but the way the company was managed. Two Israeli companies: the Zeevi investment group and Knafaim-Arkia. They bought it and sold all it's hard assets. The Bulgarian government officials including the prime minister at the who sold the airline should go to prison.
@@theK1ller5 exactly
Great Solvaieev engine sound
Muy buen avion el TU 154, en Cuba tuvimos varios durante muchos años.
The best plane.... 👏👏👏👏
I think shouldn't back into memories and it should be in life again with us
I flew balkan airlines to plodiv i think in 1989 or 1988 ill never forget the plane.
Рабочая посадка. За видео +
i miss balkan air it was a big bulgarian airline if you got near the entrance of sofia terminal 1 you can see one of these tu154 planes there
13.30 - ностальгический скрип перонного автобуса)
amazing plane similar an american 727 nice flight attendant are dolls congratulatios and grettings from mexico
I remember that ba;Ian was the best European airline or one of the best
Holy crap that’s a fast climb.
20 seconds to rotation is pretty short. 30-35 when fully loaded.
@@Alexagrigorieff yeah thick air + light load = catapult
THE RUSSIAN SEVEN-TWO-SEVEN
727- 💩 TU-154 - 👍
Cpt. Lilov on left seat.
лайк за Тушку
a world legend of the former Soviet Union epoch of achievements feats and aerial supremacy
2019?
2020! Irkutsk - city)
In dis I flight 90s 15x or so...
👍😁☝️
Totally empty flight, no passenger at all?
😳стюардесы самые сексуальные девочки у меня встал 😂
Вот это песня
Hello Daniel,Reagarding the BALKAN B737 ,I am still interested.As soon as you have some videos,you can send them to me
Why didn't you record the apu full shutdown?😞
Please read description first
БТ Уиски супер машина
Lol, pilot drinking his vodka before take off....
Bulgarians don't drink vodka. We drink RAKIA >This grape brandy .
@@u47mkbg My BG friend presented me Burgas 63..Nice rakı...
Never in the history of this airline has fallen plane with dead people... :)
thanks, for the video. my very first international flight was on tu-154. aerflot and then balkan. balkan was way better in terms of service. btw, i do not understand why you were upset that they did not allow you to film. back then it was not very common plus the mindet wad still that of the communist times, when foreigners were not allowed to film. i am glad though that you managed to make this video for history. balkan was bankrupted only a few years later.
тос се едно А380 ще вдига.... бси форсажа!
Look at all of those Orwell, communist block, apartment buildings.
Perdida total
12:39 Женщина-стюардесса-герой на ТУ-154 красивее чем ваш ролик и чем вся ваша жизнь вместе взятые или у меня не до трах как думаетет?
ВПП какой то ужас
sheet!!!!!!
Why is it called Bakah?
Balkan stupid asshole
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apu is noisy as hell
This airplanes TU-154 were horrible..noisy & smelly..how did you fly from South Korea to Sofia? through Moscow or Western Europe or Middle East(KE)???
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I remember that Balkan Bulgarian airline( Now defunct,unfortunately) flew from Colombo??....Happy that you loved them but they weren t nice for the long haul, I when travelling to the Far East would like some comfort and inflight entertainement..the IL-62 and TU-154 had neither for that long journey..only positive was that they made stops on the way...as soon as the USSR collapsed all Eastern European carriers started getting western equipment and some of the carriers(Malev,Interflug,Balkan) fell apart...did you travel KE to the Middle east?..once south korea had relations with the new Russia they scrapped their fascinanting route over the middle east to Europe...What I understand these soviet airplanes weren t economical when it came to fuel?
read well = BALKAN tu154b2 and M did not configure them with comfortable seats for intercontinental flights that does not mean that the plane is uncomfortable do not be ignorant BALKAN should have seats and the regulatory space between rows of seats for long-range flights THE airline is the culprit but we must not forget that the ridiculous pressures of their passages were very attractive in other airlines is the opposite are excessive to Mexico it was very cheap to travel in il62 aeroflot from sahannon to havana mexico managua lima santiago de chile all via shannon havana and in il62m from 1975 to 2001 today an exaggeration costs a flight to wherever
you do not listen foolish and idiotic comments of ignorant of aviation in the only thing that the idiot that to traveled is in freight train of polisi the TUPOLEV 154 b2 & M are wonders of the world aviation and in MEXICO we adore them like to the IL62 that here the let's look almost daily with AEROFLOT and CUBANA 90-al94 with CZA + mex-hav- madrid prague '' twice a week aeroflot 3 times CUBAN daily with il62m or tu154b2 or M''from 1975 -2001 that the idiots banned it today all over the world he flies in vulgar 320s 330s without grace class and beauty only economical but disposable in 3-5añosy the cias'a indebted again so is USA
@@luchatrokaalvaradoguajardo5185 , самолёт хороший ту 154?