MORE like drifting with a coach bus! - since this was the first ever view I had of the An-2 - after the video I googled it for an external view of what this thing actually "looked like". My reply? - holy CRAP!!!!! this is NO a sky lane or a simple 152 size at ALL..this is a freakin BUS! The pilot is amazing as are the characteristics for the plane itself WOW! simply AMAZING footage - THANK YOU!
Itapirkanmaa2 - "The technique seems to be to put the plane into a series of sideslips in order to defeat the lift from the huge wing area." Defeating lift is something called a stall. Reducing lift is done by simply lowering the nose not side slipping. Sideslip is done to increase drag - allowing for a rapid descent without building up speed. Here the pilot is done some power off stall turns. It is hard to see if he using slip but the AN would be able to descend like a controlled brick with its massive fuselage presented.
"The one with the original engine"? all AN2 use the same radial engine, a 1000hp Russian Chvetsov ASh21 (very near the Wright R1820 from the DC3), or the Polish built PZL Kalisz (same engine). But the AN3 was fitted with a 1375 hp turboprop ...
Jeff Williams: lowering the nose and thus speeding up will increase lift.. not the other way around. It will also increase drag as well, as those two parameters (lift & drag) always increase and decrease together but in different proportions.
Wow, surely it's very fun to watch! But is this fast descent rate normal for a similar sized plane or is it a An-2 peculiarity? Like the extremely low stall speed, I mean. It is expecially impressive the speed bleed rate before landing, it slow down extremely fast (or it seems so!). Thanks for the video, I'm in love with this special plane lately... :)
This is not only a fast descend :D LOL...Its a freakin Acrobatic flying in AN2 ;) I wanna fly it one day. In about 1-2 years or so. I just need to gather the money to find the one with the original engine....U have any ideas? :)
Ребята, расскажите, как вы это сделали? А то нас еще в аэроклубе учили (летал на Як-52 в 1985-86 гг.), что "сарай" можно заставить крутить пилотаж, разве если ему предкрылки пришить намертво к консолям крыла...
if i just hear the noise without seeing the video, it just feel like inside an old school bus with all the windows open hehe. is it true that this airplane has not stall speed?
To me… the greatest of all planes. 35 mph stall speed. It’s not a marble on a plane can go fast it’s more in Marble when they can fly slow actually harder to do
nu krivu masina ko citu lau saka. ja salust krivu TV tad uzsit un sataisits-pamegini ta izdarit tagat kiniesu telukiem un varesi pat nevest uz servisu:)
