What da heck is this #8675309?

[midnight Target]

Air America pilot Ted Moore and flight engineer Glen Woods are credited with the most unique air kill of the Vietnam war. The American top secret radar/TACAN site on Phou Phathi ridge comes under attack by two NVAF AN-2s on 12 January 1968. The airframes of two AN-2s are converted for bombing using 120 mm mortars and wing pod 57 mm rockets. The Air America Crew chases down one of the AN-2s and is credited with shooting it down. Glen Woods uses an AK-47 firing out the open door of a UH-1D Bell Huey helicopter to bring the AN-2 down.

[Boroda]

Tah Gut, here is a page from Shavrov's "bible":

http://eroplan.boom.ru/bibl/shavrov2/chr3/p2/an21.htm

"Design was started by Antonov long before his design buero (damn electronic dictionary broken, i will never remember how to spell this word!) was formed, in 1940, and continued along with designing of OKA-38."

I think there's no need to translate more

ASh-62IR is a modification of ASh-62 (M-62), that really was a licensed PW engine. Sorry, I don't remember th original name.

[midnight Target]

Went to the site Boroda....darn Russians have a different word for everything!  

Maybe the Polish version is using the Wright Cyclone 1820 engine.

[Boroda]

Tah Gut, it's you who have a different word for everything Try using http://www.translate.ru

Looks like M-22, M-25 and M-62 are all based on Wright-Cyclone engines, and 1820 was usd on some I-16 and I-15 models. American engines with high-alt superchargers were used on some planes in Spain, and have beaten any nationalist fighter at high alt. Pilots had to use oxygn equipment and were called "sosunki" (babies, suckers )

No doubt - any 1820 engine can be used as a substitute for M-62.

[eskimo2]

I have seen 2 or 3 of these big birds at Merril Field in Anchorage Alaska.

eskimo

[MrLars]

8675309?

Anybody remember the song?