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Subject: [OM] Interesting Aircraft
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 08:49:11 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
     I was watching the documentary "Into the Cold" the other day, and spotted 
an interesting aircraft that I had not seen before.  It's a high-wing twin 
turbofan, with the engines mounted above the wing's leading edge close to the 
fuselage.  It looks a bit like the Boeing YC-14:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YC-14

but quite a bit smaller.  After some creative searching with Google, I'm pretty 
sure that it's either an Antonov AN-72 or AN-74 "Coaler":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-72

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-74

     This is very interesting.  I knew back in the day that the Soviets had 
pretty much copied the YC-14, using trailing arm landing gear in place of the 
Boeing jackpost, similar to the gear on the C-130.  The Soviets adopted the 
Coandă effect to improve STOL performance, where some engine exhaust is 
diverted to the flaps.

     Until now, I did not know that this design was still around.


Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson
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