Ilyushin Il-76 (UPI7601)

Aqaba, Jordan.

great place to be great plane to see

Great shot! Back when everything had to have a bombardier's station!!

A very interesting aircraft. Nat. Geo. did an hour TV program last week on this one. It was carrying large and heavy machinery etc. to Baffin land iron mine in Canada's arctic. My son in law occasionally flies an AVro RG 100 into that strip. It's about four hours
north from North Bay, Ontario.

I remember those carying Beaujolais nouveau from Bale to Anywhere… It was scaring me in the Tower due to very very long take off.. but it's a beast...