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Reply With QuoteMy company maintained one for a number of years. It hauled skydivers until the FAA got squimish and limited it to just the airshow circuit. Too bad, because it really was a good machine for hauling skydivers.Originally Posted by entropy
Vietcong PSYOPS. While everyone, including AA crews are trying to realize that there are actually biplanes making an attack run and are busy pinching themselves, the pilots would have a chance of attacking.
Jokes aside, the An-2 is a decent airplane, flying for decades in all regions of USSR.
And if you find the Colts strange, I've heard a rumor that the U-2/Po-2 were used in Vietnam as well!
My company maintained one for a number of years. It hauled skydivers until the FAA got squimish and limited it to just the airshow circuit. Too bad, because it really was a good machine for hauling skydivers.
Just before you roll into Bad Aibling, Bavaria, from the A8 autobahn, there is this ramshackle barn with an An-2 Colt sitting in front.
First time I saw it, I thought I was on acid. I never did get the story, but that thang has been sitting there for YEARS, and definitely pre-dates Glasnost. I have NO IDEA just how it got there, but it is definitely a Cold War relic.
"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it, and if one finds the prospect of a long war intolerable, it is natural to disbelieve in the possibility of victory."
- George Orwell
Wasn't that the plane that carried some defectors from East Germany in the 70s or 80s? I have no idea on the details, just remember reading something about it somewhere.Just before you roll into Bad Aibling, Bavaria, from the A8 autobahn, there is this ramshackle barn with an An-2 Colt sitting in front.
First time I saw it, I thought I was on acid. I never did get the story, but that thang has been sitting there for YEARS, and definitely pre-dates Glasnost. I have NO IDEA just how it got there, but it is definitely a Cold War relic.
"Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.
Too right! I really wondered what was going through Moore`s mind when he realised he was going to attack a Biplane in a helicopter with an AK` toting pal spewing fire out of the door! Crazy surreal!
"Liberty is a thing beyond all price.
I remember taking off from Murmansk airport. Just before the airplane starts ascending at full power and one loses detailed sight of the ground, one could see an An-2 wreck in the woods.Just before you roll into Bad Aibling, Bavaria, from the A8 autobahn, there is this ramshackle barn with an An-2 Colt sitting in front.
First time I saw it, I thought I was on acid. I never did get the story, but that thang has been sitting there for YEARS, and definitely pre-dates Glasnost. I have NO IDEA just how it got there, but it is definitely a Cold War relic.
Made an impression on me as a child. I wanted to go there and check it out. But it was forbidden. Airport territory.
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