February 14, 201412 yr Very Nice! Intel i-9 13900KF @ 6.0 Ghz, MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X 24GB, MSI MAG CORELIQUID C360, MSI Z790 A-PRO WIFI, MSI MPG A1000G 1000W, G.SKILL 48Gb@76000 MHz DDR5, MSI SPATIUM M480 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2TB, Windows 11 Pro Ghost Spectre x64 “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the day and night to visit violence on those who would do us harm”.
February 16, 201412 yr Author Thanks guys! Some more of An-2 Hope you like it! Greetings from Cologne, Tobias
February 16, 201412 yr For those of you that read the footnotes...during the Vietnam War an Air America UH-1B Huey crew shot down an North Vietnamese AN-2 with an AK-47.
February 16, 201412 yr OK, I'll bite. Was the AN-2 armed with the AK-47 or was the Huey? The AN-2--the sim I love the most but will never get around to buying. Great shots dude. Thanks Dan George (woodhick)Check out Greenbrier Aero Club, the VA for and about the GA pilot.
February 16, 201412 yr OK, I'll bite. Was the AN-2 armed with the AK-47 or was the Huey? Sorry, pilot error. The Air America Huey crew had the AK-47. That AN-2 was the only fixed wing aircraft ever shot down by a helicopter...or at least by a US helicopter.
February 16, 201412 yr Sorry, pilot error. The Air America Huey crew had the AK-47. That AN-2 was the only fixed wing aircraft ever shot down by a helicopter...or at least by a US helicopter. Yeah, I know. I was just jerking you around a little. But then again a guy in a J-3 Cub with a shotgun could probably shoot down a AN-2. Like I said above though, it's probably the sim model I like best that I'll never get around to buying but will continue to threaten to do so. Unless I decide to pop for the Orbx Scenery Alaska programming. Dan George (woodhick)Check out Greenbrier Aero Club, the VA for and about the GA pilot.
February 16, 201412 yr A few years ago there was a yellow AN-2 wandering around the Southern California air show circuit. Static display only, no rides. Great view from the cockpit...the plumbing was something to see. FAA has 15 registered in the US.
April 10, 201511 yr An-2 is very good in FSX, true, I like the VC, sounds, and flying it... But in real life it's tooooooo hungry for fuel with a little payoff when it comes to speed and range (even C172 beats it!) although effective in terms of payload size and endurance. Regards,Victor Quebec
April 10, 201511 yr Commercial Member Nice shots. The SibWings An-2 is absolutely brilliant; it's one of the handful of add-ons that I consider to be very close to perfection. It's STOL capabilities make it extremely fun to fly (it basically doesn't have a stall speed, in a strong enough headwind it can actually travel backwards...), and the devs did a wonderful job of making the whole package very immersive, from the soundset to the textures, to the kinda tricky startup routine. But then again a guy in a J-3 Cub with a shotgun could probably shoot down a AN-2. Perhaps, but the thing is built like a tank. You'd have to place a few very lucky rounds from that Cub; I'm sure the incident with the Huey in Vietnam surprised everyone involved, from the gunner of the Huey to the crew of the An-2. :o Jim Stewart Milviz Person.
April 10, 201511 yr Anybody know if Sibwings ever updated the An-2 installer for P3Dv2? Intel i-9 13900KF @ 6.0 Ghz, MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X 24GB, MSI MAG CORELIQUID C360, MSI Z790 A-PRO WIFI, MSI MPG A1000G 1000W, G.SKILL 48Gb@76000 MHz DDR5, MSI SPATIUM M480 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2TB, Windows 11 Pro Ghost Spectre x64 “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the day and night to visit violence on those who would do us harm”.
April 10, 201511 yr Nice pics. It would be nice when folks are posting pics to put up Name of Aircraft, Platform, scenery and just basic information of what ever Ad On's used. In my head it makes sense anyway:)
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