I have see one of those things (from the reverser pic) close up.

-No slats, so the wings are about 8 feet thick at the roots

-It has a hydraulic ram that extends vertically from the tail (on the ground.) The ram actually has a set of castering wheels on it to keep the plane from tipping over onto its tail-too much weight with those four engines that far back.

*The kicker was that this plane didn't even have rivets on the fuselage-not a single one! What Ivan used was a bunch of regular (not even stainless steel) screws. Phillips head. Just get some new ones at Home Depot-I guess.... I suppose no one ever told Ivan about all the inconvenient problems with dissimilar metals and such-these things were rusted so badly I doubt a single would would have screwed out without breaking. Rust streaks galore!

-Russians do know how to build STRANGE airplanes......