How Soviets decided four was the magic number

By David Kaminski-Morrow2020-09-15T11:40:00

Source: AirTeamImages

Call it an air transport anachronism, but just as four-engined airliners are slipping, perhaps prematurely, into the realms of nostalgia, Russian airframer VASO is assembling a new widebody quadjet, the Ilyushin Il-96-400M, at its facility in Voronezh.

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