Thursday, April 19, 2012

AN2, My latest love

This has got to be the coolest single engine airplane in the world. It's not because it's high-tech or fast or beautiful.
It's because it's old, low-tech, very slow and weird looking.
This 5500kg plane has a stall speed of 26kt (that's roughly 50km/h). Check out the video of it flying pretty damn slow.(the guy filming is stupid for not having the ground as reference the whole time)
And the start procedure, doesn't get more Russian than that.
I'm scheduled to go (and hopefully try my hands at flying) in one of these 30/4 and 1/5, hoping for better weather this time around.





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