Ilyushin IL-86 - the first Soviet wide-body airliner

Ilyushin Il-86 is a medium-range wide-body airliner. The plane is the first plane in this class, developed in the Soviet Union in 1970's. Totally, 106 planes wede delivered.
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[@lindsaypickett6146]

This aircraft will always hold a special place in my heart. It was the plane my father and I saw at Heathrow many times from 1988-1991. Great memories!! Now I have a 1/144 Il-86 Zvezda In Aeroflot colours!!!

[@GlamorousTitanic21]

My favorite feature has got to be those folding stairs. What a simple yet ingenious way of dealing with crowded boarding.

[@rjrball1227]

Well it has elevators

[@copylandhanoi]

I had experienced flying on this plane once in July 1984. I flew from Sofia Bulgaria to Hanoi. The aircraft made 4 stops en route to Hanoi: Moscow, Tashken, Karachi, Bombay. Before that, I had flown on AN-24, IL-18, Tu-134 and Tu-154. I remember Tu-154 had cruising ground speed of over 1050km/h. But they all were much noisier than Western made aicrafts Boeing, Airbus...

[@Kysushanz]

I flew in a IL86 back in 2000 and enjoyed the experience. I recall being very impressed by the amount of room in the aircraft. These Russian planes are hopelessly under-rated by the West.

[@danielmosey6203]

Not really. Fuel efficiency and range let it down.

[@michaelosgood9876]

Soviets finest work was the TU114. An amazing looking plane! Other 'Westerners' would suggest the TU154 or IL 62

[@MagicDragonKatt]

Why have I never heard of this aircraft before?! Those fold-in stairs are DOPE. Beautiful aircraft.

[@Sacto1654]

The Il-86 actually served quite well in Aeroflot service, especially on their busy routes to western Europe. By the 1980's, they were common sights at many European airports flying from Moscow and (then) Leningrad.

[@anthonyalfredo563]

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[@anthonyalfredo563]

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[@anthonyalfredo563]

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[@rylandlarry4853]

@Anthony Alfredo You are welcome :D

[@chemiker494]

It was one of the safest airliners to fly. One empty flight crashed, killing its crew, but no fare-paying passengers ever lost their lives on an Il -86. You forgot to mention this

[@UnsungAces]

because nobody uses it lol

[@hepphepps8356]

@Branislav Djuric Very few was made, and total flight hours was very low. Of course it shouldn’t crash! It would be statistically weird if it did.

[@therandomytchannel4318]

It's a shame that Kuznekov never made a high bypass fan jet to hang off the wings , instead of tacking on those 1960s era NK 86 engines

[@jmmendez3468]

The self-loading feature is so cool

[@ottavva]

yes at 4:20

[@Sacto1654]

That was necessary because many Russian airports of the time lacked jet bridges or high enough air stairs that could accommodate the Il-86.

[@ottavva]

whatever the reason, the stairs are cool

[@chemiker494]

The self-unloading probably not so much

[@aaravsgaming337]

The stairs where replacing the cargo

[@badaboehm]

Awesome! I got to fly the Il-86 between Singapore and Delhi in 1991. Was good fun. I was impressed by the size of the flight deck and the large number of crew up front.

[@johnclayden1670]

Fascinating. I'd never heard of the IL-86 but have flown on the IL-96 several times. I look forward to that video ... thanks.

[@dmitriisakharov8247]

John Clayden I have flown on IL86 for 4 times. This is plane of my childhood.

[@JuraimyAirlineManager]

same, i never heard Il-86

[@drunklorry3406]

@@dmitriisakharov8247 same, flown 4 times on it as well :D

[@richardwilson3400]

The first Russian jet that ever saw live was at the Miami international Airport it an Aeroflot il86 I got excited about seeing it and pulled over and watched it il86 is one of my favorite planes along with some other Russian models but I will never forget seeing the IL86 in Miami Florida a great memory of mine

[@raphaelmiguelbalon9226]

Holy moly got any more stories?

[@andytaylor1588]

Very cool way to handle passenger boarding and luggage. that certainly solved those problems. And passenger confidence, knowing that no matter the airport, these were generally the procedures.

[@flightmaster999]

That must have added a HUGE amount of weight to the aircraft. Practical for sure, but the fuel cost must have been unbelievable!

[@xavierrodriguez2463]

Back then fuel was cheap lol

[@drewgehringer7813]

@@xavierrodriguez2463 yeah i mean this airplane also uses low-bypass turbofans, fuel efficiency was never a main focus.

[@user-yc2oz8kc5k]

Love the fang - like headlights under the nose. Makes it look spooky at night when they are on.

[@DeSerckjes]

The IL86 was the first Russian aircraft I flew with. It was from Brussels to Moscow in 1992. I was amazed to enter it without the need of anything. Totally self supporting. No need of an airport, only a strip to take-off and land on. Marvellous!

[@80sfreak14]

Yes! Soviet airliners!! My request! Can't wait for the IL-62. Thanks!!

[@AddictedtoProjects]

+1 on that! :)

[@jacobzimmermann59]

Yes please!

[@ChrisZoomER]

What makes the IL-86 so unique is that it is and remains the only wide-body of all time to have low-bypass engines!

[@simonbone]

And not by design, they just weren't available. The Il-86 was severely underpowered.

[@ChrisZoomER]

@@simonbone Doesn’t surprise me. They first developed high bypass engines only for the first wide-bodies, specifically the 747. Given how efficient they are, smaller aircraft started using them!

[@gaittr]

Your channel is so good that I purposely let all the ads run completely without skipping them.

[@pedropuelles6011]

A este hermoso avión soviético lo ví por primera vez en El aeropuerto de Lima-Callao, pero lo más lindo eran sus aeromozas todas bellísimas

[@chrispaw1]

Your English is easier to understand than most English speakers is....thank you....great video....i enjoyed it very much.

[@ressljs]

As an American, I have much more trouble understanding the British* than most Europeans who's native language is something other than English. One time I had to listen to a briefing by someone from Liverpool, and I barely knew what he was talking about. (* proper "Queens English" is easy to understand).

[@chrispaw1]

ressljs nobody here speaks proper queens english. Do you not get accents in America?

[@ressljs]

@@chrispaw1 Maybe it's a matter of perspective, but it seems like accents in America are not pronounced as in the UK. Sure, we have a few that really stand out like Massachusetts and Louisiana, but they are also 1500 miles apart. When I was in the UK, we'd drive an hour, and suddenly people would sound different.

[@dosaussiethai2127]

@@ressljs In Thailand we are much worse than that. A few villages away and they might sound very different. My village and my grandmother's village are 4 km away (that's about 2.5 miles) and we speak differently in the way we put tones on the same words.

[@stefansoder6903]

@@ressljs Well, the Liverpool dialect (scouse) is hard to understand for most British people too :)

[@kosmicheskiprah]

The sound of those Kuznetsov NK-86 engines was just mighty and matched the plane's huge size. Such a nice bird!

[@omepeet2006]

That's the exact reason it was banned in the West after a couple of years. Western ears seem to be quite sensitive...

[@danozism]

I really like these mini-documentaries- Great work, keep it up! Cheers

[@austinevplab7167]

I always enjoy your great videos! The Il-86 looks like a comfortable plane, very roomy and cool loading stairs.

[@maxbspqr]

Thanks for making this video!

[@dundee256]

Nice video! I’m looking forward to your video about the IL-96! Subscribed!

[@redlock4004]

More videos on Russian/Soviet civil aircraft please.

[@trash4cash454]

Yes, more!

[@kingsofserbiangameplay1623]

Great video really interesting and educational, I love when someone covers a topic of russian /soviet aviation because most aviation geeks doesn't know much about it.

[@benekq]

Awesome! Maybe do a marathon on Soviet aircraft like you did with Boeing and Airbus?

[@flyerkiller5073]

The Skyships in Russian has the Tupolev marathon. I hope it will be here too)

[@benekq]

oh yes

[@jiminyhopkins]

Can't wait!

[@fredschriks8554]

Still a beautiful plane. Well done USSR.

[@GCarty80]

Beautiful plane -- shame about the fuel consumption!

[@Max_Da_G]

@@GCarty80 That is true. But one needs to remember that fuel consumption is the price paid for all the self-contained things it carries. Those extras it carried added a lot of mass, which is what is the reason it chewed fuel, although I'm not sure that the engines themselves are all that thirsty. Another thing is that it's a medium-range plane which ended up growing in size due to all those features to that of larger long-range planes. If that plane was developed without the need for self-contained ground support equipment and the extra landing gear leg, a lot of space could be occupied by fuel and range would have been longer. Another thing was that if Il-86 flew slower, say 860km/h instead of 960km/h airspeed, it'd have saved yet more fuel.

[@GCarty80]

Spetsnazovets - actually it was the engines that were thirsty, as the Soviet Union had no high-bypass turbofan engines at the time. The first Soviet high-bypass turbofan airliner was the Yakovlev Yak-42, while the Il-96 (the Il-86's successor) also used high-bypass turbofans.

[@xavierrodriguez2463]

And fuel prices we alot lower globally back then especially since the Soviet Union had a fuckton of oil.

[@EngNapat]

First time when I see this plane I think it impossible for the ussr to build it but no. Well done CCCP👍

[@effyleven]

Thank you, Amir. A very good video. Greetings from UK.

[@allgood6760]

Thanks for this 👍

[@iamthatguy8207]

I love Soviet aviation! Keep them coming. Great videos

[@gert106xsi]

This airplane would be fantastic with four modern CFM Leap or PW1000G engines. The range would greatly improve too.

[@MS-kw5vt]

Great video and the narration is fluent and excellent

[@RobSchofield]

Excellent! Very enjoyable story about a unique aircraft.

[@vincentcalvelli6452]

Great video thanks

[@alsifjlasieflooo]

You really do make videos with rewatching qualities :)

[@535tony]

I flew on one of these from Katerineberg to Moscow in 1996. It was a very comfortable airplane.

[@trains_thru_the_lens]

5:27 Guy in that car is like: Please! Don't take off while i am on the runway.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Love these videos! :) The engineering from Russia/USSR was/is pretty amazing and often only let down by poor maintenance or rushed programs (ie Tu144).

[@yumphallangthaphal1598]

Very high gratitude on this and promised vedio. Thanks.

[@greateraviationgl91]

USSR: how many air stairs you want on our future wide-body aircraft Ilyushin when they developing the Il-86: Yes

[@natstudios9362]

lel

[@horusfalcon]

This aircraft seems a very reasonable evolution in passenger aviation, and almost looks western until you get to the nose... a very pretty and functional airliner.

[@cryptohunt2552]

Flew on one I 1992. Beautiful plane.

[@jiminyhopkins]

Looking forward to a series on soviet airliners... Tu-134, Tu154, Il 62, etc!

[@znerses5301]

Flew to Yerevan on this. Always got a bit nerve racking as it rotated literally at the end of the runway. Engines were music to the ears

[@joeg5414]

Finally! I've been waiting for you to do Soviet aircraft!

[@reynard61]

From what I've been able to find on it it's basically a slightly stretched 767 with 707-vintage engine technology.

[@kingsofserbiangameplay1623]

Would there be Beriev be-200, only mass produced amphibious jet aircraft, video?

[@Martythemortician1]

ANother great one Sky!!!

[@2384Aviation]

I subscribed to your other channel for this video but it was in Russia. I’m happy it is finally also in English. Great video!!😀

[@dwshook]

I had the good fortune to fly in an il-86 in 1988 from Moscow to East Berlin. Really nice!! Still have my boarding pass!

[@mikefromuniontown3809]

AVIATION ,AND THE LOVE OF PLANES ,AND AIRPORTS TRANSCENDS BORDERS LANGUAGES AND TRADITION. WE ALL LOVE THOSE PLANES!

[@amiralavi6599]

Great Job. I just wish you had packed more information in the video. I've heard cool stuff about exchange of information related to wing-mounted engine pylons from the west in return of information related to titanium processing.

[@YoursNKR]

Hey Amir, Where can I find the story you were talking about ? Thanks in advance !

[@Firehydrant1051]

The story is told in Joe Sutter's book "747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet..."

[@paulqueripel3493]

@@Firehydrant1051 also in Clive Irving's book "Wide Body", published about 13 years earlier, think it's out of print though.

[@amiralavi6599]

Here you can find a short mention of the story: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-86#The_configuration_issue

[@hj8272]

Beautiful plane... It's only 60 years old.

[@springtime1838]

Looks like a very good aircraft for the role of a Soviet airliner in the 80s and 90s

[@iAmerican_Idiot]

It looks like a Boeing 707 and Airbus A330 had a baby. It’s a very nice looking aircraft and probably my favorite Russian civilian aircraft without a doubt.

[@positronicfeed]

That self-load stairway is a great feature

[@scribcaseteam4717]

Good video)

[@pedropuelles6011]

Really beautiful airplane

[@mahiramvevo]

wonderful aircrafts

[@narindersoi]

Good video.

[@markofexcellence5209]

Have you made a video on IL-96-400? That'd be cool.

[@r.b.5189]

J'ai eu l'occasion de voyager avec un Ilyshuin IL 86, 350 passagers entre St-Petersburg et Moscou en août 2001.

[@flyerkiller5073]

Love it)

[@BarryWKay]

Good looking airplane.

[@takenbythewindNdrivenbythesea]

Wow can’t believe this, ILyushin already has some modern technologies at that time. Very interesting.

[@Nabichi]

Very nice video! I have a request for the next video.. A380-800 :D

[@ervandrush3116]

Love it

[@monibstar]

Nice :)

[@Vxllain]

Cool

[@Peichen01]

Would be a lot more competitive if the airport infrastructure in the USSR were as good as those in the US. Remove the integrated stairs, middle landing gears, cargo hold compartment, and add overhead bin and it’d the same as A340

[@daapz]

Very interesting stuff! Are you planning on introducing IL-96 later on?

[@jaybee9269]

What are the large wing fairings are 5:25 and later?

[@guyjonson6364]

2001 ;Route from Moscow to Sochi. Very comfortable. APU was noisy before startup

[@fuzzylogic5507]

Nice video and good description of this old wide body airliner from the soviet era. We will have to wait until about 2023 to see a new wide body from that side of the world, but this time it will come from the joint-venture between chinese COMAC and Russsian United Aircraft Corporation UAC with the CRAIC-929 will you do some video about this project?

[@petermendoza1170]

Thanks for the video. The first time I knew kf its existence was seeing President Putin board her. I grew up flying in the Boeing 707 and I like the two engine airplanes. When I saw the Russian President board it I awed and said "Oh,that's an aircraft he and the country could be proud of.

[@embanu3661]

Guy, you forgot IL 62. Big sucess !

[@carsandstuff365]

IL 62 looks amazing .. like the VC-10 on design

[@cyrilmeynier5688]

makes me realize that only 5 companies designed widebody airliners : Boeing Airbus Ilyushin McDonnel Douglas Lockheed

[@odess4sd4d]

I would like a more detailed look at the baggage-at-hand system.

[@TIAGO543211]

the most safety plane ever made, 0 fatal accidents

[@btrdangerdan2010]

I hope you can do a video about my favorite plane, the Soviet Tupolev 114 quanta engined turbo prop airliner!

[@JKMusictvm]

Please tell who made the engine of this plane???sukoi or mig company

[@finarfin9939]

A plane wearing a top hat. Now i've seen everything.

[@Homoprimatesapiens]

Thanx so much. Very informative and interesting. May Ilushion company goes from strength to strength. So how about a plane that will fly supersonic and also economic for the business class?

[@trillestsnakef8652]

can you do a video on the legendary b-24 liberator?

[@RedOctober_]

The Il 62 was the largest commercial aircraft in the world at one point

[@CV_CA]

2:32 IL 62 is one good looking airplane.

[@jacobnathanielzpayag3885]

This thing had built-in stairs, and built-in baggage handling and the 777X has what, folding wingtips.

[@dododakowski2813]

Why should it be more ambitious?

[@TheAllMightyGodofCod]

@@dododakowski2813 exactly. The 777 is a Boing so as far as it keeps it self in the air, our expectations are achieved. If it was an Airbus, Tupolev, Illushyin or even a Comac we would be expecting much more than just being barely air worthy but!

[@TheAllMightyGodofCod]

Oh! Sorry, I misspelled Boeing, I swear I did not do it on purpose!

[@hoytoy100]

So the 86 had stairs and baggage handling to compensate for the mid evil Russian infrastructure. The added weight and reduced volume that could be used for passengers, paying freight, or fuel - the actual things airliners are meant to do. This is nothing but Boeing envy.

[@AviationNut]

The il-86 was extremely underpowered.

[@Racko.]

Aviation Nut Because of its engines Weak performance

[@drunklorry3406]

@@Racko. however its cruising speed was 950 km/h

[@localsimpleton]

Thanks for the interesting video. Are you planning on re-releasing your russian videos with an english voice over? I can't wait to watch your other videos about russian planes in english.

[@trash4cash454]

Tupolev marathon) It is realized in Russian

[@andytaylor1588]

Will they become translated to English in the future? My Russian is limited.

[@robertgary3561]

Is the instrument panel still Soviet green?

[@colombiaturismoyviajes]

All Russian aeronautical companies have highly qualified engineers they create airplanes with great aerodynamic performance silhouettes and beautiful harmonious appearance also when they produce a new design they think in an integral way so that the plane fulfills its purpose and is multifunctional its planes are more robust and adaptable to the conditions

[@philiploveswatcheswhiskies9832]

Remember this aircraft landing in Shannon Airport

[@osatoo98]

Can you do videos also on ww1, ww2 and cold war aircraft as well?

[@uzaiyaro]

5:30 nah, fuck a tug, we’ll just use *a car* - classic Soviet Union.

[@kuriyamatidusflossy]

:)) So true

[@utkarshg.bharti9714]

It is so unfortunate that Russia did not go about modernizing this jet and giving Airbus a head-on competition. If they had turned it into a twin-engine with two-crew cockpit, this jet would have sold pretty well outside the Vodka belt

[@kleeblattchen38]

sad that it didnt get more orders… That plane seemed to be really nice for ist time... At least regarding passenger comfort etc... I mean the DC-10 for example had a less spacious cabin Right?

[@trash4cash454]

Il-86 is very close to the L-1011 in some technologies I guess

[@joeylantis22]

Less orders because it was a soviet plane. Western airlines (the majority) wouldn’t want to order it for a number of reasons. Including mechanical support (all parts were proprietary and made in USSR), political pressure, training, etc. Some were probably sold in places like Iran.

[@kleeblattchen38]

joeylantis22 yeah of corse, I know, but still sad...

[@steffenkaetzel8846]

Es war ein Erlebnis damals,Passagier zu sein in dem "sowjetischen Grossraumflugzeug"!

[@mariano7699]

And military aircrafts to, please.

[@darkchaotix1productions326]

Please do more Russian aircraft like the IL62 and the TU-104