Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Sunday, June 23, 2019

Your Sunday Morning Big Prop Noise

By request, a working An-2.


Two things have stopped me from getting one.

First, money. Can you imagine a recovering job on one of those things?

Second, Cessna lobbied the FAA to not let them be licensed in this country because Cessna feared that the An-2s would gut the marker for Cessna's Caravans. So they can only be flown under an Experimental/Exhibition license, which is a serious pain in the ass.

5 comments:

Deadstick said...

That's a new one on me...what's the mission overlap between Caravans and An-2's?

seafury said...

I wondered why they weren't allowed to fly here. I did see one at Oshkosh a few years back. There is one slowly rotting
away at the Kenosha WI (ENW) airport. I could see why Cessna would be worried. Certainl y would draw a lot more attention arriving in the ANT.

CenterPuke88 said...

The mission overlap is that the AN-2 can do everything a C-208 can do, and more, but more slowly and for a shorter distance. Take useable load, the AN-2 almost doubles the C-208B’s (7,300 to 4,200). In range, the AN-2 goes about 450 miles, while the C-208 does 1,232.

Overall, the AN-2 is a massively superior backcountry aircraft, but since only the PZL manufactured versions can fly for profit in most of the world, Africa and Eastern Europe/Asia are the most common spots.

Now, Wikipedia is just Wikipedia, but it does have this little nugget, attributed to a published book on the AN-2:

“The An-2 has no stall speed, a fact which is quoted in the operating handbook. A note from the pilot's handbook reads: "If the engine quits in instrument conditions or at night, the pilot should pull the control column full aft and keep the wings level. The leading-edge slats will snap out at about 64 km/h (40 mph) and when the airplane slows to a forward speed of about 40 km/h (25 mph), the airplane will sink at about a parachute descent rate until the aircraft hits the ground."

AN-2 or Cirrus-Lite?

Well Seasoned Fool said...

Per a retired Boeing engineer friend, some 70%+ of an AN2 was copied from DC2/3s.

Old NFO said...

WSF is correct. And no, Cessna didn't want the competition... sigh