@ Budapest, Hungary
March 2019
It took my third trip to Budapest to be prepared for the shuttle bus drive by of the aircraft displays of the Aeropark Aviation Museum. MALÉV Hungarian Airlines was the flag carrier of Hungary from 1946 until 2012. The Tupolev Tu-134 is a twin-engined, narrow-body airliner built in the Soviet Union from 1966 to 1989. The aircraft has seen long-term service with some 42 countries, in both civilian and military roles. Like many other Russian airliners of that era, it can operate from unpaved airfields. The engines on early production Tu-134s lacked thrust reversers, which made the aircraft one of the few airliners to use a brake parachute for landing. The Tu-134 was the first Soviet airliner to receive international certification from the International Civil Aviation Organization, which permitted it to be used on international routes. After the establishment of tougher noise standards in 2002, the Tu-134 was banned from most western European airports for its high noise levels. After a fatal accident in March 2007, Aeroflot announced that it would be retiring its fleet, and the last Tu-134 was removed from service on 1 January 2008. Fuji X-E2s w/18-135mm.
