Antonov Plane Taking Off

[Martez Fields]

Sothe AN 72 and 74 (almost the same thing) is a STOL (short take off and landing) aircraft and is capable of taking off from almost all terrain. its also interesting as its engines are up top of the wings which help with the lift. the airplane is rare but still fly's today. I heard that riviere made one with the UN livery but thats for V8 and i use xp11.50 but the project is forgotten. I hope someone talented can make this legendary aircraft some time. Here's a video of approach and landing.

Remember: For your own use and entertainment you build and mod whatever on your computer; but when it comes to sharing/redistributing the original files (not your work) or anything derived from these files, you will need the original authors permission.

...and a list of the 3D model's provenance, mostly taken without permission from the original authors. Same applies for some of the PM (x-plane) models under the hood, 'borrowed' without permission from the likes of XPFW and other designer of back then.

Well the An-74 won't be coming out from me in the near future at least, but it is planned. Right now I will be working on a original design for an aircraft I have modeled out in the real world. Not sure how this thread will go though.

First taking to the skies in August 1947, the Antonov An-2 has a record-setting production run and flying career that spans over four decades. The aircraft was the first design of the OKB-153 Design Bureau, led by Oleg K. Antonov and eventually based in Kiev, Ukraine. It was originally designed for civil utility uses, but its versatility allowed the An-2 to serve in a wide range of roles, including transportation, search-and-rescue, agriculture and forestry, geographical survey, fire bombing, and research. Military versions served with Soviet, later Russian, armed forces and their allies. NATO assigned the code name "Colt" to the aircraft, but it is known throughout the former Soviet Union as "Annushka" (Annie).

The An-2 is one of the largest single-engine biplanes ever produced. It was particularly prized for its versatility and extraordinary slow-flight, short takeoff, and landing capabilities. In fact, the An-2 has no published stall speed, and pilots have been known to fly the plane under full control at 30 mph. This combined with its ability to handle extreme weather conditions and rough, makeshift runways made it an ideal workforce in undeveloped and remote operational environments.

In addition to its original factory in Novosibirsk in the former Soviet Union, the plane has seen production runs in the Ukraine, Poland, and China. It is equipped with a single 1,000-horsepower 9-cylinder Shvetsov ASh-62 radial engine. It has been produced in dozens of variants that span civil, military, and scientific uses.

The Museum's An-2 was manufactured in 1977. In April 1998, the aircraft, named Polar 1, recreated a 1928 transpolar flight originally made by Hubert Wilkins and Ben Eielson from Barrow, Alaska, USA to Spitsbergen, Norway. The recreation flight included a landing at the North Pole on April 13, 1998. The An-2 was donated to the Museum by owner Shane Lundgren and Air Berlin. In July 1999, Captain Lundgren, an Air Berlin pilot, flew the An-2 across the Atlantic and mainland United States to Seattle.

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The rocket's first stage was delivered from ULA's manufacturing plant in Decatur, Alabama, aboard the massive Volga-Dnepr Antonov AN-124-100 cargo aircraft. The 107-foot-tall Atlas booster was loaded into the jet in Huntsville for the flight to the Skid Strip runway at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Monday, May 18.

The Antonov was parked at the runway's ramp, the front of the aircraft swung open and technicians offloaded the rocket today, May 19, for transport to the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center (ASOC). The stage was wrapped in a protective covering for the trek from the factory.

At the ASOC, the stage will undergo receiving checks and ordnance installations before moving soon to the Vertical Integration Facility to begin stacking operations.

The first stage joins the Centaur upper stage already delivered to the Cape for the Perseverance launch. Centaur was driven from Decatur to the launch site in an over-the-road shipping trailer in mid-April to begin its pre-flight processing.

Since the Atlas first stage is too large to be transported across the Southeast U.S. by road, air-delivery by the Antonov is an alternative way to deliver the rocket.

The primary mode of transportation that ULA uses is the R/S RocketShip (learn more about the ship), the rocket-carrying cargo vessel that can navigate both shallow rivers and vast ocean travel.

But RocketShip has been occupied delivering the entire Delta IV Heavy rocket -- three common booster cores, Delta Cryogenic Second Stage and payload fairing -- to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, via the Panama Canal, for an upcoming national security launch.

The Delta IV cores are too large for either road transport or the Antonov, making RocketShip the only method of taking the rocket to the launch site.

But the smaller diameter of Atlas allows its main stage to be compatible with both the RocketShip and the Antonov.

The Perseverance launch is planned for July 17 from Space Launch Complex-41 when the window of planetary alignment between Earth and Mars opens to dispatch the rover.

ULA and its heritage rockets have launched every U.S. mission to Mars. Atlas V, in particular, will be launching to Mars for the fifth time with Perseverance.

An Indian Air Force aircraft has gone missing after taking off from an airbase in Assam. The aircraft last had contact with the ground forces at I pm, sources have told NDTV. 13 people were onboard the plane, including eight crew members and five passengers. The Air Force has launched a search operation to track down the plane. The Russian-built Antonov An-32 took off from Jorhat in Assam state at 12:25 pm (0655 GMT) headed for Mechuka in Arunachal Pradesh, bordering China. The Air Force has launched a search operation and spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel P Khongsai said every effort was being made to locate the missing plane. Soldiers of the Indian Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police are helping in the search besides helicopters.

Keep trying it.

Wait a while for it to open, nothing works fast.

All the ground commands work slowly, sometimes a minute.

You know how long it takes for the trucks come to the parked aircraft.

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