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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: Lizard3 on April 08, 2002, 04:22:57 PM
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This aint a contest, I'm just curious and don't have a clue. It was being towed into March AFB museum while I was visiting.
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Ruskie star on the tail...
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you caught the yankee dogs trying to steal another advanced soviet aircraft design
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Its this:
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The whole story:
The "Anushka" ("Annie") as it is known to Russian pilots was designed just after WW2 to the specifications of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the USSR, for service as a long range bush plane, to support forest rangers in their out-posts and to monitor the vast resources of the Siberian forests. An-2's entered production in 1947 and proved so capable that they were almost immediately adapted by the military as a light (an arguable statement) utility transport. Shortly there-after, Aeroflot adapted it for use as a regional transport aircraft. More than 5,000 were built in Russia until 1960 when production of the aircraft was transferred to Poland. Production continued there, without any significant changes in the design, until 1992 when the last major contract was completed. It is estimated that over 15,000 were built in Poland in six different variants. These were shipped in quantity to nearly every East European country and every Russian ally in the world during the Cold War. Though the production line is closed, the factory in Poland still retains the tooling and occasionally produces "new builds" from stored assemblies. The airplane continues in production under license in Red China.
On 7 October 2000, the above An-2 aircraft, s/n ANATDSR-IR-16550 model 1975, was provided to the museum by Mike Alex, a long time volunteer and supporter of March Field Air Museum. It had been obtained from a small town in Mexico, Ejido Tierra y Libertad of Bahia de los Angeles B.C, which became owner after it had been abandoned there for many years.
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its a messed up ju52 :rolleyes: :p
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ANTONOV AN2
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/big_bubbinski/BIGBUB21.htm (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/big_bubbinski/BIGBUB21.htm)
http://www.utility-aircraft.com/planes/antonov.htm (http://www.utility-aircraft.com/planes/antonov.htm)
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AN-2. Yeah. I think we even shot one or two of them down in Vietnam. I am pretty sure VF-114 Aardvarks got one.
Oh yeah, I think they are called the An-2 "Colt" by the West
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The biggest single engined plane in the world *and* you can fly it on a bog-standard PPL-license, with a tailwheel and complex rating. I know a guy who operates 2 of them, unfortunatly you need 1000 hours PIC to get to fly as P1 :P.
Awesome looking plane and as solid as only Russians can build them.
Daff
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Originally posted by midnight Target
When were u there Liz? Its this:
May 2001. I used to live right down the road in Sun City(8 years ago). My sis still lives down toward Murrieta.
Thanks for all the info. I new if I took a picture of it and put it on the UBB one of the "experts" could tell me what it was. :)
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is that paint job on purpose ? or just alot of peeling
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Its "camo-ugly"
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I just had to say I recognized it first sight but since nobody here has got anything to do on days and just sit home and read threads, they once again beat me to it! You're all EVIL! :D
Have an AN2 on an airfield new my flight club.
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An-2 was designed BEFORE the war, in 1940, but production started after the war.
BTW, it has the same M-62 engine as I-16.
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I've trying to confirm that Boroda, but I keep finding the same year.....
When it was designed, in 1947, the An-2 was a remarkable achievement. It's easy to make fun of a single-engine, tailwheel, round-engine, biplane airliner with all the grace and mechanical refinement of the Wabash Cannonball, but no airplane before or since has been able to carry as much into strips as short and be as maintainable and utilitarian as "the Ant." The An-2 gets the job done thanks to full-span automatic leading-edge slats, full-span flaps on the lower wing, more flaps on the upper wing that work in conjunction with ailerons that droop 14 degrees, and an enormous engine that is in fact a licensed copy of the original Wright R-1820 Cyclone, one of the world's most durable aircraft engines.
Lots of DC-3s ran around under the urging of a pair of Wright R-1820s, though the smoother Pratt R-1830 Twin Wasp was preferred by most Doug Racer pilots. Indeed, if the DC-3 was our contribution to the age of iron aircraft, the An-2 was the Soviets' equivalent-an airplane ahead of its time when it was introduced, that has lived on far past its time.
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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.
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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.
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Went to the site Boroda....darn Russians have a different word for everything! :D
Maybe the Polish version is using the Wright Cyclone 1820 engine.
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Tah Gut, it's you who have a different word for everything :D 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.
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I have seen 2 or 3 of these big birds at Merril Field in Anchorage Alaska.
eskimo
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8675309?
Anybody remember the song?