Flying the Antonov AN-2

[worker@CGN]

Flying around Innsbruck B)

 

 

 

 

[A320FAN]

STUNNING!

[Pugilist2]

Very Nice!

[TuFun]

My kind of aircraft... nice pics!

[worker@CGN]

Thanks guys! 

 

Some more of An-2

 

 

 

Hope you like it!

[kevinc5]

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.

[woodhick]

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

[kevinc5]

 

 

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.

[woodhick]

 

 

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.

[kevinc5]

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.

[Bina]

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.

[Jimmy RFR]

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 

[Pugilist2]

Anybody know if Sibwings ever updated the An-2 installer for P3Dv2?

[Poppet]

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:)

[JAT]

Awesome shots.

 

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