USAF E-3 and IAF IL-76 Return to Nellis AFB 

Honestly, the recovery by the IAF IL-76 was extremely impressive.

My Airforce just made me proud! what a recovery! That guy was one of the best!

Cool. Aerodynamic braking. 'Gajaraj' of the Indian Air Force.

It was a very good idea of Boeing to make the E-3 AWACS with the 707. The IL-76's landing was awesome.

Lockdown has broke me so bad I'm watching plane spotting videos...

Keep in mind that new version of IL-76- the new IL-76MD-90A (some people call it- IL-476) has already entered production, which is a completely new aircraft- with modern and more powerful engines, low noise, made by completely different materials (composive) and with totally new avionics systems and will follow it, MY FAVOURITE VERSION- the upcoming IL-76MF-90A ("MF"- is 6,6 meters longer than the previous "MD" version!!)

Great to see the Indian Air Force coming over Welcome guys 😎

The actual touchdown is a 3 point one ( nose and main gears touch the rnwy simultaniously ), in order to slow down more effectively, when on the ground they raise the nose back to create more drag, helping the reversers. You can see similar at delta winged fighters too, only their touchdown is a 2 point one. As seen here, it's a speciality of the IL-76.

Deploying the thrust reversers before the nose wheel is on the ground is a great way to put the aircraft on its tail.

That landing is called aerodynamic braking

The IL76 is a well designed aircraft. In this case it just shows the bad brake capability by the steel brakes and outer thrust reversers..So the crew decided the aerodynamic brake and lifted the nose very high after touch down. This aircraft would fly forever if they install some upgrades. Engines,brake, avionics etc. The hull is designed for save life !! Experts know what I mean

Indian pilots are professionals! Thats why they have this earthcomming!!!

TU-154 has the same engines, I believe. From MIG-29, but without afterburners, which made the TU one of the fastest passenger planes, and it still is!

its the freaking indian air force :D awesome!

Thanks for posting this video. It showed the enormous flaps on both aircraft, and the numerous high-lift devices on the Il-76. I didn't know that the AWACS craft (modified 707?) didn't have reversers. That would really make a difference, as you say. We used to watch the 707s descend into Lambert Field in St. Louis, roaring along with almost full power to keep flying with those gigantic flaps deployed. That was quite something, way back when.

For the person below, it looks like there is an incline in the runway after the touchdown markers and that's why both aircraft had a nose up after touchdown. The second pilot just seem a bit more unfamiliar, and unprepared with the runway and that's why he took a bit longer in response.

0:22 i thought it was gonna take off again XD

That's interesting: The IL-76 pilot seems to have to get the plane's nose pointed down much more than the AWACS. Usually only the older large prop driven planes take such an attitude on approach.

It's wonderful to see the Indian Air Force working with the US. The worlds two largest Democracies should work together to bring stability and peace to the world!

I believe the plane in question was the second one that landed, that was an IL-78 aerial refueling tanker. And as of 25th May 2009, India inducted its first full capability AWAC, an Israeli Phalcon AWAC system mounted on an IL-76 (similar to the one in the video) aircraft. As for missiles, India has some long range BVR missiles (R-27, R-77, Astra (in development)) and is jointly developing the Novator K-100 "AWAC killer" missile with Russia.

why does the IL land like that? It lands like a cessna or a small aircraft

It drives me crazy when, in the movies, they call it an AWAC. You must say it right, AWACS just sounds powerful.

love the angle of attack on the il-76 landing

When iwas a kid these flew over my house a lot hehe

Beautiful landing by the mainstay.

holy shit, that IL-76 is massive.. forget 18-wheelers, this thing has 20.

GREAT WORK !!

thank you

Yes, Red Flag 2008 at Nellis AFB.

When the wheels of the Il-76 hit the ground for the first time you can see the wings flap, makes it look like a big vulture or condor trying to land lol

That E-3 Sentry AWACS really did a hard landing it even nose bounced.

i love the approach at 0:48, hahaha looks sooooo cool.

@Basabe7 No its with aircraft construction and the way the wing is positioned in relation to the fuselage (to have least drag at high speed, it needs low AOA on landing)

Either way, according to the navigator of the IL-76 I flew in from Baghdad to Thesaloniki, the Soviets put a guy with a map up front up until the mid-90's. That's why Russian planes had glass noses.

Cool footage, esp. with the radio traffic dubbed in.

they were shortening the landing distance by lifting up the front gear after touch down. (other than deploying spoiler and maybe applying some reverse thrust)

very nice the clip.

@Basabe7 You don't understand...the wing AOA relative to the line of the fuselage, not the position of the wing. The wing is bent in a different manner on a IL-76 so that when it flies level at speed, it has the wing AOA relative to the airstream in a different position compared to a C-17...I don't know how to explain it, look up the vids of the C-17s wings and the IL-76 wings.

indian air force and il-76 is the best sound walaaa

@missymonroe72 Yes, you are right about the YC-15 origin, but I am not wrong about it being based off the C-141/C-5. The YC-15 was intended to replace the C-130's. Although it was canceled, the T-tail design and high wing mount designs had to come from the C-141's and C-5's. The YC-15 never even had a payload close to the C-17, which at the time the Air Force was looking for a plane to combine the capacity of C-5 and C-141's, yet have have same flexibility/maneuverbility as the C-130.

great video, nice to hear a lady commanders voice from the il-76

Magnifique IL-76.

OK, Mr. FAIP or UPT washout. It was a smooth touchdown and not a banged nose gear, thanks for playing.

The E-3 doesn't have thrust reversers, and when I deployed the spoilers, I didn't have enough down force on the yoke which is what caused the slight nose rise.

@flchange The il-76 is designed to fly pitching down. You can't necessarily flare up with it or you will gain lift. The flaps are so massive that they produce a lot of lift,

This was my landing. (the AWACS one) I let the nose come up a little after the spoilers were deployed, plus there is a slight rise in the runway at the touchdown zone. The landing was very smooth so it wasn't a bounce that caused the nose to rise, just not enough forward yoke pressure. I wasn't trying to aerobrake like the Indian IL was. Aerobraking is not a tech order procedure in AWACS so we don't do it. And the effects of the dome are negligible in flight, but it weighs 30,000 lbs!

@arlik100 this plane accomplished in Uzbekistan and ordered by Indian air forces to Tapoich, there made many planes for them. Russia only supply with engines. )

@Polaris688 who wrote"there are instruments that are never turned on in flight because nobody is quite sure what they're for." Just press that buttons, they are all coffemakers!

They have a modern Il-76...

i saw the IL-76 plane fly over lake arrowhead on july 4th last summer

beautiful

wow this is great video

Wonderful aircraft. The IL-76 is the most charming Russian aircraft ever built.

@gypsykingg Thats weird because when I was an Air Surveillance Technician on the E-3B/C they taught us it created lift. They even showed us how, as it is shaped like an airfoil that rotates.

@DrBPhD I know, that was a joke. This actually makes sense. The aircraft's belly is a surface larger than the spoilers, so it can play the same role more effectively.

Basicly an Il-76 with a Shmel AWACS dome on top. Called Beriev A-50 Mainstay.

We have awacs and airforce 2 doing touch and goes here some times.B2's also from Missouri

Yes!

Almost thought the IL-76 was gonna do a touch and go for a second there

I think you're right... besides, I love the IL-76 more than the AWACS! but my favorite bird is the An-225 mriya!!! damn, it's huge!!! it needs ca. 3500 m to accelerate before taking off!!!

По моему мнению здесь дефект взлетно-посадочной полосы. У пилотов не было выбора. Ил-76 превосходная машина! Слава советским сталеварам!

Oh, I don't know if one is necessarily better than the other. They're just different. West: Advanced and precise. East: Simple and rugged. Long after the west subscribed to GPS, LOR, VOR and ILS for navigation, the Soviets still built planes with a glass nose and a guy up front with a map, compass and stopwatch.

that circle thing on the top

oh cool i was wandering why i heard him power up after landing then i saw the clam shells he had revers thrust turned on

he was using aerodynamic braking. It is a way to slow the aircraft down without destroying the brakes

orange and green as @ecckas71b wrote :) India's flag has orange white and green bars with a wheel design on the white bar...

I was like WTF when I seen E-3 Sentry and IL-76 land on the same airfield. Then I saw what it says on the side of the IL.

There's actually a rise in the runway right after they touch down that sends the nose of most of them back up in the air if you're not ready for it!

@dragance011 no its a IL-76M of the Indian Airforce. Its Clearly visible in the Video

@Orangebike666 it actually produces enough lift to compensate for its weight.

@MegaStealth101 Well, the jet blue flight that stuck gear had to do aerodynamic breaking, and then this aircraft here rotated while the reverse thrust was engaged, so I assume that it's just a maneuver that they use to slow down the aircraft.

INDIAN AIR FORCE IL-76

@missymonroe72 but its good that you mentioned it to me because at the time I was writing, the YC-15 completely slipped my mind

agreed wholeheartedly. PLUS god forbid if we ever had to work together somewhere in teh world, wed know what each of us was capable of doing :)

U can see how he opening reverse cameras on second stages at 1:10. So this was the cause of IL 76 climbed it's nose...

its called a cheek 4 short, an attenna radome that was a later added modification

... "According to the BBC and aviation experts, the Tu-154 has an average safety record considering its length of service (and heavy use in the most demanding conditions), and few accidents appear to have been due to technical failure."

@boggey5010...id not the strong winds or crosswind....every IL 76 pilots(including me)..are trained to use reverse trust at 15 or 20 feet to ground....this mean that we use the reverse trust before touch down...look twice and u will see

@Icarusdecending82 the dome does not produce lift, just drag

The Ilyushin sure has some loud engines

i like the il-77 recover more

I think they need to beef up the landing gear on the IL 76 : p

Its looking like a UFO following the first plane in the beginning! XD

Yea, it's just airbraking. You pull the yoke all the way back and it gives the plane maximum drag to slow it down. The pilot just holds the yoke back after touchdown and the plane will gently settle all on it's own as the airspeed bleeds out.

@hasenpfote272 Actually its got the 4th largest Airforce in the world. And,yes, it does defend us against Pakistan.Quite well in fact. BTW apart from the IL-76s the IAF is moving to acquire 10 C-17 Globemaster from US with an option of 6 more.The IAF would be the 2nd largest operator of C-17s after the US.

this should be the new "uav" on modern warfare 3!

I am almost positive this is Nellis Air Force base in Las Vegas.

1:00 i thought he landed on an invisible runway...

Considering an average age and a number in use by a poorest 3rd world airlines it has to have more crashes than B-2 bomber for sure. In fact old Soviet jets may look like a gypsy vans but technically much safer than any western airliner is. The reason they are mostly appendix projects made out of military designs with much different standards of way higher reliability and a specific approach to maintanance.

Mahatma....Waterrmaid........One is right for you!

that's what I call a wheelie! =)

@Shuxa02 LOL ;) It's assembly only. Very primitive and much less than it was in USSR time. Ford has an assembly plant in Russia with some components produced natively in Russia. If we follow your logic than Ford Focus is Russian car ;)

This is Red Flag 2008 at Nellis AFB.

@ZXCVideos So that the radar in the dish can see 360 degrees.

@abh3092 The IL-76 was from India, so they pilots have an Indian accent

I was gonna say.. the thumbnail was a picture of the IL.... turns out I didn't fully read the title first.

Il-76 just made 'dynamic braking' In Russia you can often see this kind of stuff

I have a question-does anyone know what the blister is on the right side of the plane between the cockpit windows and the US AIR FORCE emblem? Is that where the jammers might be located? I'm curious.

Does anyone know what the two blisters directly behind the cockpit would be for? I never noticed them until I saw this video.

IL - 76 No.1 !!!