Hi Gord

For what it's worth, the TU-160 'Blackjack' is powered by four
Samara/Trud NK-321 turbofans, each generating 55,155 pounds of static
thrust in afterburner. The aircraft's empty weight is 259,900 pounds.
There's no way that a single engine is going to move this aircraft
anywhere except at a high speed taxi. Incidentally, the 'big whig' was
U.S. Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci. He was invited to inspect the
twelfth aircraft built at Kubinka Air Base on the 2nd of August 1988.

By the way, how did the CYSU reunion go Gord?

Cheers...Chris