Ilyushin IL-18 is a four-engine turboprop passenger aircraft developed by the Ilyushin Design Bureau in the mid-1950s. It is one of the most popular Soviet passenger aircraft, which was actively used for several decades and was widely exported.
In this video, we will not only study the history and description of the aircraft, but also take a tour of the real plane, located at the Central Air Force Museum in Monino, Russia.
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😍😍😍 I was so lucky to fly IL-18 for seven years. Very reliable. Perfect aerodynamic . Longest flight 9.30 hours from Karachi to Bucharest-Otopeni.
@Atish Dutta Yes. From 1981 to 2004 , after that to some private comp.
@Atish Dutta 🙏🏼
What was your favourite memory flying it?
@@JustAPairofLegs More than one. I cannot name it. Maybe Otopeni-Shannon-Keflavik-Gander-Nassau-Havana ? 🤔
My grandfather flew it in the 1960's for Tarom.
"And the US Army was developing new arguments to calm them down..." cue nuke explosion...perfect....what a wonderful piece Skyships!
I love these old Soviet aircraft!! They came up with some real interesting stuff. I love watching this stuff! There helicopters are absolutely amazing!
The IL-18 is the most underrated plane ever built
This is one of the goodies. A practical, efficient and long lived airplane. It also has that “look” all great airplanes tend to have. An appropriately clean and good looking one. While I am in general familiar with most of the western aircraft of the period, it’s been good to see you presenting the various Soviet era aircraft which we had limited exposure too over the years. There are some real gems which were produced and I for one hope they get recognized along with their western made peers and take their proper place among the worlds great aircraft.
Flew in one of these back in 1984 with the old CAAC airline (PRC). I remember it being a simple aircraft. If I remember correctly it seemed to have more leg room and elbow room than some of the modern American and European jet liners today.
Couldn't click on this one fast enough. The IL-18 has always been one of my favorite turboprops.
It was good)
@@SkyshipsEng It was kind of the Soviet version of the Electra, except the IL-18 had the full support of the government to get it through its teething troubles. It's pretty clear from the performance and longevity of the Orion that the Electra could have been an equally successful airliner if there was support to get it through its early troubles. Air Koryo flew its five IL-18's from 1966 until the last one was retired from passenger service in 2017, and did so for the entire 50 years without a serious incident
I've bought all the books I could on the il18. Fascinating aircraft. Dehaviland actually offered to see ilushin the tech to synchronise the props and thus eliminate the vibrations but the price was too high. So galley relocation it was!
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@@mrrolandlawrence Thanks for that-- the formative period is often more interesting than the design release and field history.
I love the historic footage! Your videos are always very informative and entertaining, but by adding a little history makes it even more fun to watch!!! Thanks!!!
OMG not only did the B-29 directly give birth to many derivative aircraft in the USA, but the USSR as well. Wow. I would love to see a history of the spread of B-29 technology.
My very first flight was on an Interflug IL-18. Still remember the huge window!
There's an Interflug Il-18 in Leipzig on the roof of a building in Plagwitz.
mine too. flight berlin-prague.
Outstanding video! Thank you for all the footage from the actual aircraft.
The sideways mounted APU arrangement is also seen on the CRJ-200...
My first plastic model and love affair with air planes, childhood relived.✨😍👌🏻 Thanks for covering this beauty.👍🏻
My love affair with aircraft started also with a plastic model of the Vickers Vimy my dad bought for me from a BP Fuel Station back in the early 70's.
As always many thanks Skyships!
So much research and time goes into your videos. Great work. Please keep it up.
Always a pleasure to watch your videos; respectful, enthusiastic and with excellent subtle humour. Thank you, sir
Awesome video. Very in-depth and informative. Keep up the good work! Looking forward to Future videos! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for this beautiful documentation!
Thx Skyships! You finally go back to passenger and i waiting for the Il-62, DC-9, MD-80/90, BAC-111, Hawker Siddely Trident and Vickers VC-10!
Would be nice to also see Bae146 and Antonov series. Also mi helicopters
Superb tour! Thanks for shining the light on classic Soviet aircraft.
IL-18 t was an absolutely great plane. It was exiting to fly on one back in these great days.With one engine failed in extremely cold conditions (-48C in the ground, plus heavy snow and blizzard with gusting winds) it was able to land full of passengers once flying a long route in far far north of USSR. Thanks to that great Russian pilot that day who came out of the cockpit smiling with the words - Do not worry dear passengers, we all will be at home soon :) The brainchild of Ilyushin the great Soviet Aviation Engineer.
Sky is on top with very consistent material. Ty Sky! Keep the videos coming 👍👍
In the Netherlands we have an Il-18 at the airport Teuge and I visited an Il-18 in Czech Republic beside the motorway from Pargue to Mlada Boleslav. Nice plane to see With compliments from the Netherlands by Arie Bert Versteeg.
Very nice. I have seen the same IL18 in Prague aswell. I also “visited” one at the Technik museum in Sinsheim. It is Walkable although most of the cabin has been cleared out and converted into a play area for children. Still was a very special moment. I’ve always been in love with this aircraft
This is a great doc. Very well narrated with some quality footage.
The airport van/bus at 8:46 is so cool.
One of your best videos yet! Great job.
fantastic! did't know this airplane, loved the presentation and details.
Being Brazilian I have a passion for Electra, after all they operated sovereigns for 29 years (1962 to 1991) on our main airline, the air bridge between Rio and São Paulo without accidents and in addition it was the plane I flew for the first time turn. However, I must admit that the IL-18 had a further refinement, at least in design and, at least on the other side of the iron curtain, it was more successful than our beloved I-188. Hugs.
Ooh, I would just love a series about all the various Soviet turboprop airliner! Hope this is the first of many!
Thank you, very interesting!
Love your reviews, you do a great job. Thanks!
Fascinating video, I loved hearing about the history of the plane as well as the innovative solutions, like the UV light in the cockpit
KZhead suggested this, and was not disappointed. Awesome video, well done guys.
Спасибо, found your channel recently and I love the videos, keep up the good work!
What a great channel: informative and, most importantly, entertaining.
Cool ac. As for copying the B-29, they say 'imitation is the most sincere form of flattery'.. 👍😉
COMMIE!!
@Event Horizon In the late '60s, when the Soviets were accused of industrial espionage on Concord - hence the derogatory nicknames ( "Concordski", "Concordov", "Concordovski", etc.) of the Tupolev Tu-144 - it is rumored that they've replied (to those accusations) by saying that the case of Concord - Tu-144 represents the typical example of what is called..."the convergence of the technical solutions"...!!! LOL !!! It is more likely, that that was, indeed, a typical text-book execution of a Soviet industrial espionage operation...on Concord...!!!
@@laure5333 to be fair US attempt at SST would have looked like Concorde on steroids had it been build. I am willing to say that I believe Russians on this one
They didnt just copy the B-29, they regersed engerniered the plane, its mechanisms and the systems. It was quite a feat since they didnt had the plans of the B-29
Kind of but it's still a shitty trick, the dc3 and the b29 could literally swap parts with the Soviet copies,Douglas and Boeing should sue them for copyright infringement
A new Skyships video-all is well with the world!
Is there one for the tu134?
on of my favourite aircraft of all time. shame i never got to fly in one.
Doesn't Air Koryo still fly them? Or did they finally retire them?
@AWC i dont think they retire the Il-18
+Roland Lawrence. I was lucky enough to work flight planning these a/c and lucky enough to fly Moscow to Sochi and Sochi to Leningrad on one.
@@9999AWC I think it's still in service, I flew from Pyongyang to Wonsan on it in October 2018, beautiful aircraft.
Great video as usual! Well documented.
Those landing lights are cool! Love the way they fold in and out. Nice aircraft!
15:00 for some reason showing Ryanair here just made me laugh so hard
that be one of those new 737-8200's they got!
I cried.
Because of hard landing memes
ikr, not true at all, Ryanair offers maximum comfort, especially on landing( who doesn't love a good tail strike)
Maybe it was a dig at Ryanair or something?
Great video. Hello from Brazil! 🇧🇷
To see these planes now adds so much to your program
This is the definitive Il-18 video on KZhead. Everyone else might as well just hang it up.
Hi like your detailed aviation tours. Keen up the good work 👍
Another great video mate!
FANTASTIC video - well done !!!
Excellent review; very well written and presented.
What a nice looking plane!
Great video, thanks a lot. Greetings from Belgium
Great job! Love your videos!
Very informative video.thank you for uploading
Cheers! Great video! X
I love there turbo prop aircraft, absolutely amazing!!
Bravo excellent work thank you so much Once again bravo
Love this vid, thanks!
Thanks Sky for this video
Loved this, please do more Soviet/Russian/Ukrainian aircraft. You do them justice.
Excellent video. I flew on an Il-18 in 1973. Impressively fast climb on take-off. The prop noise was quite noticeable from my over-wing seat, but other older turboprops also were noisy in that position (e.g. F-27). Nice to see the L-188 and P-3 mentioned, quite similar designs (P-3 is shorter than the Electra, of which several are still flying in far northwestern Canada). The British had two rough equivalents, the short-range Vickers Vanguard and the long-range Bristol Britannia.
The British had the Viscount in the '50's ...
@@checkyoursix5623 The Viscount was smaller and with shorter range than the Il-18/Electra/Britannia/Vanguard.
Gorgeous!
Sky is back with typically interesting video! Excellence!
This was a nice story. Thanks a lot.
Nice to know that the Apu exhaust is similar to the CL-60's
Sky's accent is the best for Soviet style aircrafts.
I have seen every single one of your vids and this is by far the best one yet! Do you have patreon?
Great!ive watch this like 4 times now it's just the best new videos that i liked to watch,Relaxing,Infirmative,Inspiring and more,Im waiting for the next video youl upload,take your time....take your time.....
My first flight was in an IL-18 when I was 6 years old. I was so exited ...
As far as I can tell a modern turboprop is 33% more efficient than a modern high bypass ratio turbofan using the same level of technology (turbine inlet temperature) . They are not that much slower Mach 0.65 versus Mach 0.8 and would have better takeoff performance.
Although you're correct, the customer base wants to see "jets". That's who pays the freight, so the airline shows them what they want to see ... It's sort of like being led around by the blind ... A Convair 440 re-engined to become a 580 is one heck of a durable bird ... fast, quiet, comfortable, and a joy to fly ...
Wonderful machine and noise! It wobbles your insides :)
Great video! I always enjoy them, and somewhat it's nice to listen the english language spoken with a russian accent. I wish I can visit Monino one day.
Beautiful aircraft !!!
Good documentary, well narrated.
Yeah, I liked his subtle expression of the development of the Nuclear bomb both in the US and Russia. I appreciate your insight regarding public opinion on the country's flying customers. Nice job and thanks for all the cool info!
Great video of a really cool plane 😍👌🏼
While I've known about this aircraft for years, its history is something I never knew about. I remember making plastic models of the TU-104 during the early 1060s.
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What he meant by “big technological advances came from several B-29’s that were lost in the Soviet Union” was that some B-29’s landed in fellow FRIEND... TEAMMATE... ONE OF THE FELLOW ALLIES... after bombing Japan. The pilots were returned to their respective army’s but the aircraft were never allowed to leave. Then.. wow. Those new “strategic bombers” look a lot..... exactly... like the B-29. Good job 👍🏼
I have absolutely no connection to aircraft, Russia, or anything that this video is talking about, but I always enjoy the way these videos make a good story about their development. I particularly enjoy the wry humor used in all of them.
What a cool airplane!! Reminds me of the Connie!!
Great Video !!!
Beautiful plane.
My father took me to visit a gaint cloth factory in Soviet Union back in the 80s, and I flow on the IL18 during that trip. If I remember correctly, it was owned by the factory (as the factory was located in the middle of a forest with nothing next to it). My father told me later that Russian did that to avoid the second German invasion, LOL
We need more these four engined turboprops!..
This guy sounds like the late actor Mako. A very fine actor he was. I do love this airliner. I do still think it can be used for passenger service of in country flights.
Outstanding.
My flights in these aircraft were not as rosy as the narrator would suggest, or some of the comments. I visited China towards the end of the '70's, and flew on two internal Il-18 flights. I am not particularly tall (180cm) but for the first flight my knees were hard up against the arm bosses on either side of the seat in front. The second was better, but the difference for us visitors was made up by jamming the rear seats (with the locals) into even less space. For the legless indeed. Then there were the engines. All was fairly normal when they started and the aircraft taxied. But the whole plane was shaking from the vibration at take-off power. The noise matched the vibration. I understood the aircraft and still was unsettled. The others in the party were terrified. I had read about RR micro-balancing the moving parts of the Spey not long before that trip, and those take-offs showed why that was not just a 'nice to have'. Also not mentioned was the location of the toilets, between the cabins, in that 'noisy' zone. What a noise! In short, I have never been in a Western aircraft that got close to scaring me and deafening me like that Il-18. They are interesting aircraft, and have a long and enviable record; but I pity all who had to fly in them regularly.
Hey Sky, please do a video on re-emergence of the Japanese aircraft industry. Planes like the Kawasaki P1 and C2, Honda jet and mitsubishi spice jet
An amazing Plane! You just have to love IL-18. Still waiting for IL-62 :)
Man, you are really out of sync with the news. The IL-62 first flew in 1963 and is already retired by most airlines.
@@gteixeira What? What? I am asking Skyships Eng to make a video about Il-62.
KamilMB IL-62 in engl is ready
Is so beautiful and wonderfull
I love the "turkey feather" propellers it, and some AN-70s, use.
This is my second favorite aircraft I would like to ride on the TU-114 my first. I think even JAL operated these aircraft though I am uncertain. You have a wonderful channel and your presentation is fantastic.
One Tu-114 was leased to JAL for operations from Japan to Russia and back, yes.
@@Ama-hi5kn Thank you
To fly in one is on my bucket list❤️✔️
Yes, on a prop plane the tail is quietest because it is far from the props and the wing blankets the noise a bit, the nose is not quite as quiet, and the mid fuselage is loudest. So !st class is in the tail, 2nd class in the nose, and 3rd right in the middle. On a jet plane the tail is exposed to the exhaust and is loudest, the mid cabin is near the turbines and is in the middle, and the nose is quietest, and furthest from the engines (but usually the most dangerous place in a crash)
I guess Air Koryo is still flying one. It's so cool they keep these things and the IL-62 going.
Very interesting and well done, as always! Благодарить! 🙂
Very good vid! Very Good!
I had the first time in 1975 experienced a charter flight with Interflug (the former East German international airline) on an Il-18D from Vientiane(VTE) to Hanoi(HAN). Quiet and comfortable aircraft! Until the mid-80s, Aeroflot used to operate long haul regular flights from VTE (Laos) to Moscow via Tashkent with the Il-18D which was later replaced by the Tu-154B which I also experienced on a flight to Moscow. I also had the chance to fly in 1985 on an Interflug Il-62M from Hanoi to Berlin and in 1989 on an Aeroflot Il-86M from Hanoi to Moscow.
Sky, LOVE the channel! More please. How about one abut the Soviet made single turbofan crop duster!
That is a legend
Lovely plane.
I always like a plane that has a flight engineer. Not that I don't trust my pilots, but I trust my flight engineer to correct the pilots all the time.
Second 😉 Very interesting video! 👍