1967 | SE-210 Caravelle III & Tu-134A-3

YU-CNT
Vukovar

YU-ASJ
Kaštela

Contest-winner Caravelle repost, plus a first paint on the new Tu-134 template I made in collaboration with A.B. and AJB.

In the years following Stalin's death, the acrimony between Tito's Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union began to slowly dissipate, with Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin visiting Belgrade in 1955 to personally apologize for wrongdoings by Stalin's administration. Despite the relative normalization of relations thereafter, Tito continued to refuse to fully align with either bloc, instead becoming a chief proponent of non-alignment and equidistance. This ideology shaped Ijekavia's fleet evolution through the latter part of the 1950s into the 1960s, with brand new jetliners from both sides of the Iron Curtain joining the fleet during the decade, including the French Caravelle I in 1959 (later upgraded to Caravelle IIIs in the early 1960s) and the Soviet Tu-134 in 1966.