Aces High Bulletin Board

General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: mora on March 20, 2005, 05:55:30 PM

Title: AN-2 "Colt" video
Post by: mora on March 20, 2005, 05:55:30 PM

Enjoy! (http://www.lennuklubi.org/video/download.php?file=Antonov_high.wmv)

Made by the local AN-2 club here in Helsinki.

Title: AN-2 "Colt" video
Post by: Wolfala on March 21, 2005, 12:33:51 AM

I'd take that over a Grumman tiger anyday.

Title: AN-2 "Colt" video
Post by: SunTracker on March 21, 2005, 12:47:01 AM

Grumman tiger was the last aircraft I have flown.

Title: AN-2 "Colt" video
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on March 21, 2005, 12:57:00 AM

We skytype with Gruman Tigers since the begining of this year. We going to Japan for 1.5 month in mid jully, we doing the POCARI SWEAT campaign.

Title: AN-2 "Colt" video
Post by: Wolfala on March 21, 2005, 02:02:19 AM

Putting them on a boat or going via Alaska ?

Title: AN-2 "Colt" video
Post by: SunTracker on March 21, 2005, 07:38:14 AM

What does 'skytype' mean?

Title: AN-2 "Colt" video
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on March 21, 2005, 12:54:12 PM

Check it out Suntraker (http://skytypers.com/)

Title: AN-2 "Colt" video
Post by: Staga on March 21, 2005, 05:10:24 PM

Nice;
http://www.lennuklubi.org/taustakuvia.htm
http://gallery.aerodome.net/AN2suksilla

Title: AN-2 "Colt" video
Post by: Staga on March 22, 2005, 02:26:37 AM

LOL...

Quote

All in all, a remarkable machine. If your idea of heaven is being able to fly backward in a 30-knot headwind while carrying an entire baseball team plus the manager for the price of a mid-range BMW, have we got an airplane for you.

http://www.seqair.com/Other/UnFalco/UnFalco.html

Title: AN-2 "Colt" video
Post by: Wolfala on March 22, 2005, 02:59:57 AM

Quote

Another classy feature of An-2 night flight is the instrument panel. All the dial markings are painted with radium, a technique outlawed in the U.S. decades ago. The "floodlights" are actually ultraviolet, to excite the radium. "It's the only airplane I know of that you can fly at night and get a sunburn," one An-2 owner said.

I love it - its a mans plane. Leaks like a siv, hard to manage. Dials being a complete ****ing mystery. How much I want one...

Title: AN-2 "Colt" video
Post by: mora on March 22, 2005, 04:00:10 AM

Quote

Feel? Well, let's just say flying an An-2 is like making love to a fat lady who's had too much to drink: there's a lot to work with, it's unresponsive, you're never quite sure when you're there, and it's big-time ugly.

:D