This is really great work.
Great work. What is that cage around the nosewheel?
Wow, Jim! This is beautiful!
Keavdog, that cage is the Russian Mud/FOD guard that they have in some form or another on the nosewheel of almost all of their aircraft. They don’t keep their airfields surgically clean like we do, so these keep the nosewheel from kicking mud and other things into the engine intakes.