Cool looking AiRplanE

[Superpilot92]

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=777555&WxsIERv=Nagbabi%20Na-72-100&WdsYXMg=Ravzrk%20%2F%20Ngynagvp%20Nveyvarf&QtODMg=Qbegzhaq%20-%20Jvpxrqr%20%28QGZ%20%2F%20RQYJ%29&ERDLTkt=Treznal&ktODMp=Sroehnel%209%2C%202005&BP=0&WNEb25u=Fgrsna%20Jryfpu&xsIERvdWdsY=RF-ABV&MgTUQtODMgKE=Gheavat%20ba%20cbfvgvba%2012%21&YXMgTUQtODMgKERD=347&NEb25uZWxs=2005-02-14%2010%3A26%3A24&ODJ9dvCE=&O89Dcjdg=36572096914&static=yes&sok=JURER%20%20%28nvepensg_trarevp%20%3D%20%27Nagbabi%20Na-72%2F74%27%29%20%20BEQRE%20OL%20cubgb_vq%20QRFP&photo_nr=13&prev_id=777556&next_id=771666

 

[urflyingme?!]

Weird plane. Looks just like a BAE

 

[TIGV]

Channel Express used to run one in the UK, quite a machine..

 

[bafanguy]

When I first looked at it, I thought...looks like something the Russians would come up with...blew up the picture....AN72 !! Those Russians...they're all about "style".

 

[Superpilot92]

Weird plane. Looks just like a BAE

I am talking about the engine setup though its unique. I like the BAE looks mean.

 

[DOVPILOT]

YC-14 ???? look alike

Weird plane. Looks just like a BAE

The Ruskies took the idea from Boeing a long time ago...YC-14

http://www.aero-web.org/database/museums/getimage.htm?id=82

 

[bafanguy]

DOV,


I think I saw something like that at Pima. Those Russians...they're all about stealing American ideas.

 

[Superpilot92]

The Ruskies took the idea from Boeing a long time ago...YC-14

http://www.aero-web.org/database/museums/getimage.htm?id=82

Cool i havent seen that one before either. Thanks for the post.

 

[88_MALIBU]

Looks like a cross between an Avro and a 757.

 

[The_Russian]

Wrong!

The An-72 is based on a Romanian aerodynamicist named Coanda. Coanda used the theory of lift based on a component of thrust placed over the wing surface. The thrust from the engines over the wings creates a high lift, low drag area over the wings at all angles of attack. America DID NOT generate this theory. Russian just put it in place in 1972 during high lift aerodynamic studies. The result of those studies was the AN-72 and AN-74. The aircraft was developed to bring troops into 500 foot, unimproved strips in western Europe.

 

[bafanguy]

The Russian,


At ease, MY Man...at ease...I was just making a joke, not putting a doctoral dissertation up for review. You are obviously much better informed than I ( and I'm not kidding about that ). The Russians have copied American aircraft design all the way back to the DC3, B29, B757, and maybe some others I'm not aware of.

I'm not an expert on aircraft design history, but I play one on flightinfo.com.

If you are actually a Russian by birth, offended by anything I used in my attempt to make a joke, I deeply apologize.

P.S. Vodka makes me puke.

 

[The_Russian]

No I was messing around too! Except the facts on the airplane are true.

I LOVE VODKA!!!!

 

[Vladimir Lenin]

I LOVE VODKA!!!!

I second this statement

Na zdoroviye, tovarisch