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Flying a single-engine Antonov An-2 over the Atlantic Ocean
- aww_dang 5y agoUnfortunately geoblocked here. Is there another link?
- corny2 5y agothe whole show, unfortunately not, but you can find many excerpts on YouTube. like here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chkIzgABFEU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chkIzgABFEU just search for "steel buddies Antonov Atlantik"
- sigio 5y agoWell, here's a pastebin with an NZB-file ;) https://pastebin.com/T7BKYhMV https://pastebin.com/T7BKYhMV Or alternatively: https://www.magnetdl.com/f/flight-of-the-antonov/ https://www.magnetdl.com/f/flight-of-the-antonov/
- zatarc 5y agoKatastrophe!
- malwarebytess 5y agoThere's talk that the only an-2 produced, that resides in Ukraine, was damaged or destroyed.
- gerikson 5y agoThat's another Antonov design , the An-225.
- sendfoods 5y agoVery sad, yes, this is the best source I could find https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/antonov-an-225-largest-plane-destroyed-ukraine-scli-intl/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/antonov-an-225-larges... I'm honestly surprised it was destroyed. Why wouldn't the Russians want to use this plane in the future? EDIT: an-2 != an-225.
- corny2 5y agoYears ago there were rumors, that they are developing their own super-heavy cargo plane. https://vimeo.com/103542677 https://vimeo.com/103542677 Not sure if that project ever went further than the demo video though
- sandworm101 5y ago>> Why wouldn't the Russians want to use this plane in the future? Russian-owned and operated transport aircraft arent going to be flying much internationally for a while. Many of the an-225's customers are on the other side of sanctions walls.
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- gambiting 5y agoIt's also an incredibly powerful symbol of Ukrainian engineering and flight expertise. Antonov is a Ukrainian company.
- georgecmu 5y agoIt was built in 1988. If anything, it was an incredibly powerful symbol of Soviet engineering and flight expertise.
- gambiting 5y agoContrary to popular view, people living in the Soviet Union didn't lose their national identities.
- georgecmu 5y agoI don't see a lot of value in this line of argument, but want to make several things clear. You impute a single national identity to the plane designers and engineers based on their physical location. Setting aside the fact that the construction bureau itself was relocated to Kiev from Novosibirsk in the late 50s, the people who worked there came from all over in the Soviet Union. Tolmachev and Antonov certainly did not have the national identity you impute. Regardless, it was a Soviet engineering outfit, not a Russian or Ukrainian one. Just like Chernobyl was a Soviet project and failure, not a Russian or Ukrainian one.
- corny2 5y agoI think you're talking about the An-225, no? the giant one. the An-2 is not a big plane and nearly 20 thousand were built of them.
- swraysford 5y agoYou're confusing the AN-2 which is a biplane, single engined mass-produced aircraft weighing about 3000kg, with the AN-225, which is a six-engined one-of-a-kind behemoth weighing about 285,000kg
- sendfoods 5y agoah! you're right.
- cstross 5y agoThe An-2 (NATO reporting name: "Cock") is a single-engined utility biplane used throughout the former Warsaw Pact as a light airliner, cargo plane, and crop duster. Its general performance is comparable to the ancient Douglas DC-3, with the added twist that it generates so much lift at low speeds that it can land and take off from very rough, unprepared fields. Wikipedia article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-2 The An-225 Mriya is so much bigger that if you could cram them in, it could carry 77 An-2s as passengers :-)
- sandworm101 5y agoThe COCK is the AN-22 and has four engines, which iirc are the same as used on the bear bombers. The NATO name for the An-2 biplane is COLT. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-2 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-2 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-22 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-22
- cstross 5y agoWhoops! Was commenting from memory.
- karamanolev 5y agoIt's very unfortunate that the An-225 is now reported as destroyed in the war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya#2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya#2022_Russ...
- kube-system 5y agoDamn. I was just watching some videos of this plane last week and wondered if I’d ever get to see it in person some day.
- devilbunny 5y agoIt was really something. I saw it at Houston Intercontinental once.
- sschueller 5y agoMichael Manousakis and his Morlock Motors is nuts but hilarious to watch. [2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Buddies_%E2%80%93_Stahlharte_Gesch%C3%A4fte#Morlock_Motors https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Buddies_%E2%80%93_Stahlh... (Sorry German only)
- vintermann 5y agoThe Germans sure like geoblocking, don't they?
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