Media item

Giant airplane Tupolev

Week number 64-23

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
01:35
Publication date:
1 June 1964
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producent) / Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid (beheerder)
Source:
WEEKNUMMER642-HRE00029A35

A four-engine Tupolev 114, the largest passenger airplane in the world, lands at Schiphol Airport. The aircraft steps are too short so an extra stepladder has been placed on top of it. With axt. and int. of the airplane, a.o. sleeping cabins in the first class. The Jong Oranje (Young Orange) football team, officials and journalists board the plane to make a tour with it in the USSR.