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Tarom IL-18 Postcard

Ilyushin Il-18 Interflug

Registration: DDR-STE Type: Il-18V Engines: 4 × AI-20 Serial Number: 051-01 First flight: 1962

Interflug GmbH was the national airline of East Germany from 1963 to 1990. Based in East Berlin, it operated scheduled and chartered flights to European and intercontinental destinations out of its hub at Berlin Schönefeld Airport, focusing on Comecon countries. Following the German reunification, the company was liquidated. Over the 1960s, the airline saw a significant growth, concerning both its route network and fleet of Soviet-built aircraft. The Ilyushin Il-18 turboprop airliner became the backbone of Interflug's short haul flights during that period. Now Ilyushin Il-18 DDR-STE is an exhibit of the Hans Grade Museum, Borkheide, Germany.

Suppression of multiple mouse models of refractory malignancies by reprogramming IL-18 ligand-receptor interaction Summary Researchers developed a novel immunotherapeutic strategy that reprograms the IL-18 pathway to combat refractory malignancies in mice. By engineering a “decoy” IL-18 binding protein (IL-18BP), they were able to effectively suppress tumor growth across several mouse models of…