THE SIGHT & THE SOUND 5/6 : Flying Dandy AN-24 LZ-CBC documentary from Leipzig to Bratislava

Still feeling the fatigue in my bones from my Tupolev marathon two months before, I soon felt the urge to sample more of Bulgaria's exciting yet dwindling classic aviation scene in 2003, sencing that happiness will not last forever and everything will come to an end.

So, once again, I was off to visa-free Bulgaria in July 2003, invited by Hemus Air to complete my series of in-depth studies of Soviet aviation technology, this time, once again onboard the faithful and unique Flying Dandy's only AN-24 flying exclusively on domestic and European routes for Hemus Air.

Six flights onboard AN-24 were on my agenda, beginning with a domestic rotation from Sofia to Varna and back, just to warm up my camera for the next day's rotation to Bratislava and Leipzig.

This inflight documentary features the third leg on the following day from Leipzig back to Bratislava, filmed from the flight deck.

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Flight details

Flight : DU 838
Date : Saturday, July 26, 2003
Aircraft : AN-24B
Registration : LZ-CBC
Former registrations :
- 040 (Bulgarian Air Force)
- LZ-MNI (Scorpian Air)
- 040 (Bulgarian Air Force)
- LZ-CBC (Heli Air Services)
Built : 1970
From : Leipzig (LEJ)
To : Bratislava (BTS)
Take off : 14.14 h (1214 UTC)
Touch down : 15.44 h (1344 UTC)
Flying time : 1 hour 30 minute
Flying distance : 660 km
Altitude : 18.900 ft / 5.770 m
Speed : 188 / 209 / 241 / 256 knots
Captain : Dines, Plamen (Gundi)
Check Captain : Kolev Georgiev, Ivan
Flight Engineer : Georgiev, Hristo
Cabin Crew : Doganova, Rositza
Cabin Crew : Popova, Magdalena

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