Mustard would have made a 3d model and shown it in flawless animations. Simon Whistler would have had a ghostwriter make a 11 minute script that he could recite from his chair. Half as intresting would have made a episode about all the An-22 crashes.. Sky - finds one and goes onboard! - Awesome!
When I was in the US Army I met one of these at Andrews AFB in 1973. We had 3 trucks and we transported luggage to various hotels in DC for an advance Soviet team preparing for a summit between Nixon and Brezhnev.
Antonov was definitely an aeronautical genius. And to think that this plane and all others at the time were designed using the most basic engineering tool ... the Slide Rule!
Not really, when was AN-22 designed, OKB Antonov already had multiple floor computers and of course aerodynamics and structural integrity was calculated on supercomputers in CAGI. But yes, at that time, engineers were carrying slide ruler, because pocket calculators were not real thing yet, neither in East or West. They were introduced in 70s.
Slide rules are capable of carrying out some pretty precise computations!! The A-bomb was calculated w/ slide rule!! I have one, inherited from my father but haven't mastered it yet.
I have always loved and admired the An-22. I was lucky to see and hear 5 of them in formation in 1993.The roar of 20 contra rotatating engines is something I will never forget! What an aircraft ❤
I had the unexpected pleasure of watching an AN-22 landing and taking off at Manchester Airport in December 2017. I was there awaiting a flight to Brussels at the time and heard what sounded like a distant wasp buzz, but instead saw this huge plane. Turns out it was enroute from Kiev to Canada, it was in Manchester to refuel
If you were ever fortunate enough to see the AN-225 in person it was truly breathtaking. A flying building. Helped up believe in mega human engineering. RIP AN-225. Russia did not have to destroy her in Feb. 2022. She flew a lot of mega cargo around the world. RIP.
I've been to Spyer museum in Germany. It is enormous! They also have the early ex-Lufthansa 747-200 and even by it, the An-22 looks BIG! Cheers from Poland!
Your videos go from strength to strength. Your narration and English vocabulary are nothing short of impecable. Many native English speakers do not posses such command of the language, including emphasis and clarity. My hat off to you. Not only do you produce very interesting aviation videos, but you also do it in a second language! :)
Why is it, that the only spelling mistake you made in your entire comment, is the word "impeccable" (instead of impecable)? Oh wait, I found another one, "possess" instead of posses. I'm just messing with ya! Please don't get angry with me.
I used to love seeing these on the tarmac at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq. I was a US soldier but could still appreciate the aesthetics of these birds. Great video as always.
@@I_Cunt_Spell I didn’t work on the flight line (or have anything to do with air operations) so I am not sure. When I was in Afghanistan, I flew on several American contracted Soviet era helicopters, crewed by airmen hailing from former Soviet dominated states. So, maybe the AN-22’s were similarly operated.
@@I_Cunt_Spell I enjoyed flying in Russian helicopters because they were more spacious than our Blackhawk. However, during one flight in a Mi-17, an extensive electrical fire broke out at about 100m altitude, just after takeoff. The entire aircraft filled with acrid electrical smoke, including the cockpit. I was surprised the pilots were able to get us back down in more or less one piece. It was a very hard landing but everyone of us survived. My lungs burned for a few days and my lower back ached for a few weeks, but those pains certainly were better outcomes than the alternative.
Naming an aircraft after a character in Greek mythology who was all powerful as long as he always had some part of his body touching the earth seems an unfortunate choice
@@SkyshipsEng given that only 69 were built, during the time when the Soviets built a lot of everything, I think we can consider this design a failure. 69 airplanes is small by American military standards and practically nonexistent by the Soviet standards
A few years ago I was working in my garden when I heard a deep unusual rumble in the sky. As a former military pilot and a long time airline captain, I knew what was up there was a rarity. It was the An-22.
Heh! I used to work under the approach path to a joint airbase in the US, so I got to where I could identify the fighters and transports that frequently operated out of there from the sound of their engines. It was always a treat when they had an airshow and I could learn the ground-shaking roar of a C-5 or the B-52's weirdly high-pitched shriek.
For a long time I had been searching for the perfect documentary for the An-22. Thank you so much for the video. Wow! you have answered every question I had on the An-22.
11:10 "behind the cockpit, a rest area where escorts could be accomodated" damn, didn't know the russian air force took such, ahem, care of its pilots ;)
With an aircraft the size of the AN-22 and capable of carrying over 700 people, the cost of joining the Mile High Club was finally within the reach of most Soviet men and women. That affordability combined with regular, scheduled flights gave rise to their motto: "If this plane's a-rockin' don't come knocking."
"Your videos go from strength to strength. Your narration and English vocabulary are nothing short of impeccable." ..said by another viewer; echoed here. It's a pleasure to listen to your erudite narration and your Russian accent. Big fan of your videos. ~A former cold warrior.
Brilliant video. Giant turboprops are endlessly fascinating and unlike the better documented TU-95 variants, the An-22 was more obscure. Thanks so much!
@@dewayneblue1834 Antonov design bureau was founded in Siberia (Novosibirsk) in 1946, Antonov himself is also Russian. But at the whim of the fool Khrushchev, bureau moved to Kiev in 1952. Now it has virtually disappeared, impoverished Ukraine is not able to support it.
I'm an American, and I'm in my 70s. For most of my life I was never able to get any good information about Russian and Soviet aircraft and equipment, except for grainy old black and white videos or pictures. So this is a great time for me, personally. To be able to exchange information across the world with people that I've been told to hate, and now to be able to do it without the filter of either side's government propagandists is a great thing. Thanks to the internet we are all able to see that, at our core we are all the same. We all love the same things, we all desire the same things for ourselves and our families. Peace, security, and justice. I believe this is what it was made for
How so? Was there a prohibition on soviet tech in the us? I grew up in the 70s and early 80s in europe, i was in aircraft models, you know that you buy and assemble on your own, anyways i had more or less equal number of soviet and american models, well more soviet ones in fact especially for the large turboprops military and civilian, but because the had more models in use, a lot of beareaus producing whatever they concieved basically, as the gov would pay for it, at least for the few samples of everything imaginable if not for serial production. I grew up in socialism, but i often think you yanks had harder censorship than anyone bar soviets and chinese, and ofc koreans. Granted, our socialism wasn't a warsaw pakt socialism, but unaligned one, so in my socialism we grew up on hollywood movies and bbc sitcoms, coca cola and levi's jeans, our diesel locos were emd's, electric ones were swedish aseas, both licence built here, our peasants had massey fergusons and their later licence builds here, state owned agricultural enterprises had big green john derees exclusively, cars were domestic, half of it, the rest imported or licence built, small number soviet ones, but the majority were, german, italian and french ones, off roads were land rovers or austrian puch, to a degree later cheap lada nivas for private use, but military and police only the western ones. Aeroplanes were mostly mcdonnel douglas, with occasional boeing, but dc 6, 8, 9, 10 were the bulk of it thru the eras, they just were popular here. None of the soviet stuff was prohibited, it just didn't cut it for the most part, if we don't talk tanks or migs, but helis, attack and recon helis for instance were french gaselle, domestic jet production was based of rr engine and avionics, remnant and sharing a lot of platform with sepecat jaguar, our nuclear powerplant was, still is the westinghouse type, so not soviet, french or british, but american one, funny that socialism of ours was indeed, but i think you actually had a huge amount of censorships for a "free world".
@@dannyboy-vtc5741 I wouldn't exactly call it a Prohibition, but anything made in the Soviet Union that showed up in the United States for sale was rare to put it mildly. And those things that were were generally regarded as inferior or substandard and not worth the money. I know now that that wasn't true but at the time the Cold War propaganda in the United States was just massive. Many Americans still haven't shaken off that anti-Russian propaganda. They just carried their prejudice over from the Soviets to the Russian Federation. I remember when Belarus tractor company first appeared in the United States. The media coverage that we got portrayed as if it might as well have come from Mars. It sounds like the Europeans back then had more access to Soviet Goods then we did over here. Anything Soviet or Russian or Eastern European was portrayed as being, ''Commie stuff'', and should be viewed with disdain. It wasn't until the 1980s that I purchased my first Eastern block item. It was an East German Practica 35 mm camera. It was actually a very good camera but other people that I knew that had Canons and Nikons were kind of dismissive about it. The way that everything including Manufacturing in America has declined over the last 40 years, I believe that Good's coming out of Russia are of a better quality than we're creating here, because we aren't creating anything except War in America anymore. We're just getting our stuff from China. The world indeed has changed a great deal.
@@geraldtrudeau3223 yeah, i had a practica actually, it was a good camera, good optics, good lightmeter, but it wasn't soviet, it was german, eastern german but german, i could comparw it to canon and minolta, and sure maybe wasn't exactly the match, but it was the same league, russian cameras were not, i had a ciouple, my dad was into photography before me, so i had cameras, russian optics were a hit and miss, they were bulky af, mechanics were atrocious, but were good say to carry on places you usually wouldn't carry a camera as not to damage or lose it, but not much less. Yeah soviet products in general weren't good or quality for the most part, but some were good, all were cheap. But not today, if you think american manufacturing is shite, russian is tripple of that, what they managed to produce at all was with european and american parts and tooling and know how, even their few modern weapons use western electronics, navigation systems and other stuff including missiles. And customer stuff nowadays in russia is absolute trash, like apliances etc, it's equally chinese, just for the western market we get premium chinese products if you can believe it, they get chinese level or chinese export for third world level, i'm in contact with some russians from different spheres of society, everyone agrees on that tho. Do you know they amended the law for car production and now allow production of new cars without airbags and anti skid brakes. Dude i think that you went the other way, and now giving them more acknowledgement than they deserve, yes the west deindustrialised, but russians deindustrialised more than anyone in history, south africa retained more institutional knowledge than russians did, i don't think you understand that they built only one oil refinery since soviet times, that one near rostov, and that was completely western technology, not theirs, it's not just consumer industry, but military industry too, pharmaceutical, a domestic one doesn't exist, chemical too, it's either western or chinese, if they were any good, they wouldn't need iranian and north korean stuff. So yeah tldr -a practica you could compare to canon, similar type of stuff, a zenit you couldn't, but you could bring it to fishing in some swamp from a local wooden swamp row boat, and if it dissapears in some muddy water, no big deal, but a soviet tv, radio or amp no matter how cheap, nobody would buy that because it was a total trash, so they weren't sold at all, like our police and army even in socialism used motorola, or some domestic equivalent based on motorola for a reason.
Excellent presentation! I was able to tour one of these giants at the industrial museum in Speyer, Germany a few years ago and this video really gave me a better appreciation for what Antonov achieved in this design. Thanks again!
@Johnny Gustav We used to do aircraft recognition in the ATC. I never really understood why they made such a big deal out of it. Turns out it was a hangover from WW2. AA gunners were using it to know who to fire at lol. I guess it is important.
I heretofore require anyone/everyone posting videos to RUclips to watch this video to learn how it's done correctly. This was incredibly well-produced and -presented. I am looking forward to watching all the videos on this page. My boss may get mad at me for doing that instead of working, but hey, this stuff's important.
We were living in New Delhi during the AN-22 flights to Bangladesh following the Bhola cyclone of November 1970. Our home was near the approach to the Delhi International Airport, a stopover. The roar of the counter rotating props was unbelievable on the approach. I can’t imagine what it must have been like to have been near the takeoff flight path.
Soviet aeronautical engineers were always great they designed more to the limit than western engineers the AN22 is simply a magnificent legend regards from Colombia
33:00 "It is unlikely it's craters thought it would still be flying in the skies of 2021." while an An-2 taxis in the back ground. I'm betting *IT'S* creators would be even more surprised the An-2 would still me flying in 2021.
@@frankgaleon5124 The An-2 is a good, well built airplane. It's also huge for a single engine plane. There is a video of a small plane caught in the wake turbulence left from an An-2. Even with full opposite aileron the small plane rolled over and crashed. ruclips.net/video/KXlv16ETueU/видео.html
@@93ndani You were lucky. The Soviet Government did not want American children to fly their planes. I wanted to fly a MiG-21 but they wouldn't let me. Nor would my dad.
The AN-12 uses the same engines as the TU-95 Bear, the NK-12. These engine are so noisy that US submarine sonar crews could hear underwater, when a TU-95 flew over.
Still flying, one visited Leipzig this winter. Seen it approaching the airport, knew when it left by it's sound, you can't miss it, so loud and unique.
I once flew on a AN22, as I dit on a AN12, AN26, AN124, all chartered by the firme I was working for then to deliver freight all over Europe starting in EBOS. The AN22 is the one that surpriced me the most. The last AN22 landed on EBOS in september and it had then 200 flying hours left.
My man, you know your videos are bloody amazing, right? Of course you do. I think after reading actual Jane's Defence, your videos are probably my most favourite. Ever. Great job
Antonov is in Ukraine and however part of Soviet Union, both Antonov Engineering and Motor-Sich are both in Ukraine till day and most of the engineering thought is local. Mass production is of course Soviet indeed with all their powers.
uuummm....everything he is saying is found on, Wikipedia and some other forums and or articles. lol. it's not some hard and crazy information to find and learn. it's just most people today are too damn lazy to do their own research for learning stuff. ha.
A lovely design concept. I once watched a video of the AN-22 landing in a dirt strip to deliver harvesters and tractors to remote collective farms. And the application of a turboprop helped with short-field performance, fuel efficiency and FOD damage.
uuummm....everything he is saying is found on, Wikipedia and some other forums and or articles. lol. it's not some hard and crazy information to find and learn. it's just most people today are too damn lazy to do their own research for learning stuff. ha.
The only commercial AN-22 took of a few times from Ostend Airport in Belgium last year, I live 40km away and I could hear it when it was just in the air.
My favourite big plane. I grew up in a USAF family and it wasn't till I got older did I really learn to appreciate the genius of Russian aircraft design.
I enjoy all of the aviation themed videos on RUclips, but yours are always the best. The sound of your voice is such that you could narrate a video on rubber bands and make it entertaining, it is as uniquely your own as are the voices of Frank Sinatra or Tina Turner. Couple that with excellent material, accuracy and superb editing, and it is, another top-notch production, as always.
I think you are a wonderful man for both the very high quality of your work and the extensive coverage of aircrafts. Thank you so very much and keep up the good work. I hope they pay you well!
The an-22 came along at the right time and to this day have capabilities that nothing made today can match. Good job of letting us meet this giant from the past Sky.
For those wondering about the An-22 parked on the tarmac with 2 turbofan engines on the left side; it is being used as a test mule for a new engine for in flight testing. This is not unheard of: in the US in the 1960's, when B-52's were plentiful, one had it's inner right pod of two turbojet engines replaced with a ridiculously large (there are pictures if you look hard enough, and this engine is like 3x the diameter of the turbojets on the aircraft) high bypass turbofan. That engine was being tested for, and later powered the C-5 Galaxy.
Great video! 😁👍 I really enjoyed all the info and stories from so many perspectives and decades. Nice work! I wish we still had all the research, developments, and design breakthroughs like the 50's and 60's.
uuummm....everything he is saying is found on, Wikipedia and some other forums and or articles. lol. it's not some hard and crazy information to find and learn. it's just most people today are too damn lazy to do their own research for learning stuff. ha.
Great video mate, I really enjoy your channel!!! I like the way you narrate these well researched, well put together and interesting videos, often with a hint of humour
16:45 Also, it is helpful to put the rudders into the propwash of the engines. This was seen in several models of bombers and large cargo planes of the 1930's and 40's.
When I was ten, I saw this airplane flying over our quiet suburb of Montreal and I was so impressed by its size. In those days, Aeroflot was coming to Montreal Dorval which is one of the most beautiful airport with its cool sixties design and designers seats. In 1962, Montreal had the largest airport terminal in the world where every airliner used to land. I remember seeing these Swissair Convair 880 next to an Air France Boeing 707 next to a Russian Il-62 looking similar to that VC10 of BOAC. TWA, Pan Am, Olympic and many more made you dream when you saw your father embarking in those Air Canada DC8.
I still beat myself over the head with the fact that I had a rare opportunity to go and see a real flying AN-22 from the Antonov airlines that was present at EBOS, about 90 kilometers from my hometown back in 2017, but I missed it... I mean, how often do you come across such magnificent beasts let alone ones that fly?
Some may not like Antonov designs and some may even hate them, ( I love them) but you just can't take away from the fact that simplicity of design and the plain fact that they work extremely well and my favourite is the annie
What I like about pretty much all Russian aircraft is the fact that they're impressive, powerful, well designed, always a tad larger than their US rivals, tough and versatile. They also often surprise Western experts when being unveiled to the World.
Mustard would have made a 3d model and shown it in flawless animations.
Simon Whistler would have had a ghostwriter make a 11 minute script that he could recite from his chair.
Half as intresting would have made a episode about all the An-22 crashes..
Sky - finds one and goes onboard! - Awesome!
Simon Whistler would have also edited it in enough ways to duplicate it across all the 792 channels he speaks on!
Oh yes the top 5 guy
@@Mungobohne1 u mean buissnes blaze guy?
Ah Half as Interesting would tell you half truths for 10 minutes with some lame jokes.
@@ZIGZAG12345 he has turned into just a talking wikipedia channel these days. he needs to trim the ego and the beard. shame as simon was good once.
When I was in the US Army I met one of these at Andrews AFB in 1973. We had 3 trucks and we transported luggage to various hotels in DC for an advance Soviet team preparing for a summit between Nixon and Brezhnev.
Antonov was definitely an aeronautical genius. And to think that this plane and all others at the time were designed using the most basic engineering tool ... the Slide Rule!
Not really, when was AN-22 designed, OKB Antonov already had multiple floor computers and of course aerodynamics and structural integrity was calculated on supercomputers in CAGI.
But yes, at that time, engineers were carrying slide ruler, because pocket calculators were not real thing yet, neither in East or West. They were introduced in 70s.
Slide rules are capable of carrying out some pretty precise computations!! The A-bomb was calculated w/ slide rule!! I have one, inherited from my father but haven't mastered it yet.
I have always loved and admired the An-22. I was lucky to see and hear 5 of them in formation in 1993.The roar of 20 contra rotatating engines is something I will never forget! What an aircraft ❤
Epic at 22:06 you have the star of video the An-22 and in the lower right corner you see the iconic An-2 reminding us where it all started.
I had the unexpected pleasure of watching an AN-22 landing and taking off at Manchester Airport in December 2017. I was there awaiting a flight to Brussels at the time and heard what sounded like a distant wasp buzz, but instead saw this huge plane. Turns out it was enroute from Kiev to Canada, it was in Manchester to refuel
If you were ever fortunate enough to see the AN-225 in person it was truly breathtaking. A flying building. Helped up believe in mega human engineering.
RIP AN-225.
Russia did not have to destroy her in Feb. 2022. She flew a lot of mega cargo around the world.
RIP.
I've been to Spyer museum in Germany. It is enormous! They also have the early ex-Lufthansa 747-200 and even by it, the An-22 looks BIG!
Cheers from Poland!
I appreciate both your research and the subtle humor/sarcasm in the videos. Thsnks
Your videos go from strength to strength. Your narration and English vocabulary are nothing short of impecable. Many native English speakers do not posses such command of the language, including emphasis and clarity. My hat off to you. Not only do you produce very interesting aviation videos, but you also do it in a second language! :)
Why is it, that the only spelling mistake you made in your entire comment, is the word "impeccable" (instead of impecable)? Oh wait, I found another one, "possess" instead of posses.
I'm just messing with ya! Please don't get angry with me.
@@franek_izerski fRANKIE Frankie FrAnKiE....
True is just amazing how he does it
he even said: chubby cigars 🙂
And his accent is absolutely charming!
I used to love seeing these on the tarmac at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq. I was a US soldier but could still appreciate the aesthetics of these birds. Great video as always.
Who flew them on that occasion?
@@I_Cunt_Spell I didn’t work on the flight line (or have anything to do with air operations) so I am not sure. When I was in Afghanistan, I flew on several American contracted Soviet era helicopters, crewed by airmen hailing from former Soviet dominated states. So, maybe the AN-22’s were similarly operated.
@@bombfog1
Interesting. I have read that your armed forces are quite fond of Mi-8 and Mi-17.
@@I_Cunt_Spell I enjoyed flying in Russian helicopters because they were more spacious than our Blackhawk. However, during one flight in a Mi-17, an extensive electrical fire broke out at about 100m altitude, just after takeoff. The entire aircraft filled with acrid electrical smoke, including the cockpit. I was surprised the pilots were able to get us back down in more or less one piece. It was a very hard landing but everyone of us survived. My lungs burned for a few days and my lower back ached for a few weeks, but those pains certainly were better outcomes than the alternative.
@@bombfog1
Wow! At least it wasn't a cia-supplied stinger missile hit.
Naming an aircraft after a character in Greek mythology who was all powerful as long as he always had some part of his body touching the earth seems an unfortunate choice
Yes, there are still many questions about why the plane was named Anteus
@@SkyshipsEng The NATO name is also strange)
@@frankgaleon5124 Cock. Well it's long and tubular.
@@frankgaleon5124 Do russians have anything to do with OTAN/NATO name?
@@SkyshipsEng given that only 69 were built, during the time when the Soviets built a lot of everything, I think we can consider this design a failure. 69 airplanes is small by American military standards and practically nonexistent by the Soviet standards
A few years ago I was working in my garden when I heard a deep unusual rumble in the sky. As a former military pilot and a long time airline captain, I knew what was up there was a rarity. It was the An-22.
Heh! I used to work under the approach path to a joint airbase in the US, so I got to where I could identify the fighters and transports that frequently operated out of there from the sound of their engines. It was always a treat when they had an airshow and I could learn the ground-shaking roar of a C-5 or the B-52's weirdly high-pitched shriek.
As an American I love its design and agree this plane is awesome
That's one fine looking aircraft....
I'm in Love with the C-130, my first military flight. It's comfortable and very capable in the Arctic.!🥰
You are right it looks just fine
I feel like this thing would make for a great bomber
It could also save lives instead of killing them the Afghanistan people could do with one it would be its mercy flights ✈️ of freedom !! Brendan IRL
All the details are a little unusual, but taken as a whole, she's lovely.
For a long time I had been searching for the perfect documentary for the An-22. Thank you so much for the video. Wow! you have answered every question I had on the An-22.
11:10 "behind the cockpit, a rest area where escorts could be accomodated" damn, didn't know the russian air force took such, ahem, care of its pilots ;)
"Antonov knows what a pilot wants."
you say this as a joke, but the truth is probably not that far off :)
I don't know why else a cargo flight would need half a dozen stewardesses.
He meant ford escorts
With an aircraft the size of the AN-22 and capable of carrying over 700 people, the cost of joining the Mile High Club was finally within the reach of most Soviet men and women. That affordability combined with regular, scheduled flights gave rise to their motto: "If this plane's a-rockin' don't come knocking."
Aircrafts with propellers are always my favourite
Extra propellers charisma)
That aircraft always had a special place in my heart. I really like the design.
"Your videos go from strength to strength. Your narration and English vocabulary are nothing short of impeccable."
..said by another viewer; echoed here. It's a pleasure to listen to your erudite narration and your Russian accent. Big fan of your videos.
~A former cold warrior.
Brilliant video. Giant turboprops are endlessly fascinating and unlike the better documented TU-95 variants, the An-22 was more obscure. Thanks so much!
Soviet, or, since it's an Antonov, Ukrainian.
@@dewayneblue1834 Good point. Updated
@@dewayneblue1834 Antonov design bureau was founded in Siberia (Novosibirsk) in 1946, Antonov himself is also Russian. But at the whim of the fool Khrushchev, bureau moved to Kiev in 1952. Now it has virtually disappeared, impoverished Ukraine is not able to support it.
Antonov An-22 'Antei' still flying after more than 50 years ! What an amazing huge transport plane.
@Arieta .-.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNND its gone
@@notastone4832 no, it hasn't.
I'm an American, and I'm in my 70s. For most of my life I was never able to get any good information about Russian and Soviet aircraft and equipment, except for grainy old black and white videos or pictures. So this is a great time for me, personally. To be able to exchange information across the world with people that I've been told to hate, and now to be able to do it without the filter of either side's government propagandists is a great thing. Thanks to the internet we are all able to see that, at our core we are all the same. We all love the same things, we all desire the same things for ourselves and our families. Peace, security, and justice. I believe this is what it was made for
Aeroplanes will be the thing that brings humanity together ✈
How so? Was there a prohibition on soviet tech in the us?
I grew up in the 70s and early 80s in europe, i was in aircraft models, you know that you buy and assemble on your own, anyways i had more or less equal number of soviet and american models, well more soviet ones in fact especially for the large turboprops military and civilian, but because the had more models in use, a lot of beareaus producing whatever they concieved basically, as the gov would pay for it, at least for the few samples of everything imaginable if not for serial production.
I grew up in socialism, but i often think you yanks had harder censorship than anyone bar soviets and chinese, and ofc koreans.
Granted, our socialism wasn't a warsaw pakt socialism, but unaligned one, so in my socialism we grew up on hollywood movies and bbc sitcoms, coca cola and levi's jeans, our diesel locos were emd's, electric ones were swedish aseas, both licence built here, our peasants had massey fergusons and their later licence builds here, state owned agricultural enterprises had big green john derees exclusively, cars were domestic, half of it, the rest imported or licence built, small number soviet ones, but the majority were, german, italian and french ones, off roads were land rovers or austrian puch, to a degree later cheap lada nivas for private use, but military and police only the western ones.
Aeroplanes were mostly mcdonnel douglas, with occasional boeing, but dc 6, 8, 9, 10 were the bulk of it thru the eras, they just were popular here.
None of the soviet stuff was prohibited, it just didn't cut it for the most part, if we don't talk tanks or migs, but helis, attack and recon helis for instance were french gaselle, domestic jet production was based of rr engine and avionics, remnant and sharing a lot of platform with sepecat jaguar, our nuclear powerplant was, still is the westinghouse type, so not soviet, french or british, but american one, funny that socialism of ours was indeed, but i think you actually had a huge amount of censorships for a "free world".
@@dannyboy-vtc5741 I wouldn't exactly call it a Prohibition, but anything made in the Soviet Union that showed up in the United States for sale was rare to put it mildly. And those things that were were generally regarded as inferior or substandard and not worth the money. I know now that that wasn't true but at the time the Cold War propaganda in the United States was just massive. Many Americans still haven't shaken off that anti-Russian propaganda. They just carried their prejudice over from the Soviets to the Russian Federation. I remember when Belarus tractor company first appeared in the United States. The media coverage that we got portrayed as if it might as well have come from Mars. It sounds like the Europeans back then had more access to Soviet Goods then we did over here. Anything Soviet or Russian or Eastern European was portrayed as being, ''Commie stuff'', and should be viewed with disdain. It wasn't until the 1980s that I purchased my first Eastern block item. It was an East German Practica 35 mm camera. It was actually a very good camera but other people that I knew that had Canons and Nikons were kind of dismissive about it. The way that everything including Manufacturing in America has declined over the last 40 years, I believe that Good's coming out of Russia are of a better quality than we're creating here, because we aren't creating anything except War in America anymore. We're just getting our stuff from China. The world indeed has changed a great deal.
@@geraldtrudeau3223 yeah, i had a practica actually, it was a good camera, good optics, good lightmeter, but it wasn't soviet, it was german, eastern german but german, i could comparw it to canon and minolta, and sure maybe wasn't exactly the match, but it was the same league, russian cameras were not, i had a ciouple, my dad was into photography before me, so i had cameras, russian optics were a hit and miss, they were bulky af, mechanics were atrocious, but were good say to carry on places you usually wouldn't carry a camera as not to damage or lose it, but not much less.
Yeah soviet products in general weren't good or quality for the most part, but some were good, all were cheap.
But not today, if you think american manufacturing is shite, russian is tripple of that, what they managed to produce at all was with european and american parts and tooling and know how, even their few modern weapons use western electronics, navigation systems and other stuff including missiles.
And customer stuff nowadays in russia is absolute trash, like apliances etc, it's equally chinese, just for the western market we get premium chinese products if you can believe it, they get chinese level or chinese export for third world level, i'm in contact with some russians from different spheres of society, everyone agrees on that tho.
Do you know they amended the law for car production and now allow production of new cars without airbags and anti skid brakes.
Dude i think that you went the other way, and now giving them more acknowledgement than they deserve, yes the west deindustrialised, but russians deindustrialised more than anyone in history, south africa retained more institutional knowledge than russians did, i don't think you understand that they built only one oil refinery since soviet times, that one near rostov, and that was completely western technology, not theirs, it's not just consumer industry, but military industry too, pharmaceutical, a domestic one doesn't exist, chemical too, it's either western or chinese, if they were any good, they wouldn't need iranian and north korean stuff.
So yeah tldr -a practica you could compare to canon, similar type of stuff, a zenit you couldn't, but you could bring it to fishing in some swamp from a local wooden swamp row boat, and if it dissapears in some muddy water, no big deal, but a soviet tv, radio or amp no matter how cheap, nobody would buy that because it was a total trash, so they weren't sold at all, like our police and army even in socialism used motorola, or some domestic equivalent based on motorola for a reason.
The NK-12 is my favorite turbo prop engine.
The most powerful and charismatic. And loud)
@@frankgaleon5124 And The most musical to my ears. The engine bureau should release and build a modernized version of the NK-12 engine.
I agree, although i prefer it when fitted on tu 95
Do more military planes
i liked it on the a90 orlyonok
Good video. The An-22 is one of those planes which still has an enigma despite being widely photographed and documented.
Excellent presentation! I was able to tour one of these giants at the industrial museum in Speyer, Germany a few years ago and this video really gave me a better appreciation for what Antonov achieved in this design. Thanks again!
8:55 "A total of 69 aircraft were assembled."
Nice.
Nice
Its NATO designation was "cock". I kid you not.
@@ollylewin FR?
@@noobplayer_23 Yes. Google it.
@Johnny Gustav We used to do aircraft recognition in the ATC. I never really understood why they made such a big deal out of it. Turns out it was a hangover from WW2. AA gunners were using it to know who to fire at lol. I guess it is important.
I heretofore require anyone/everyone posting videos to RUclips to watch this video to learn how it's done correctly. This was incredibly well-produced and -presented. I am looking forward to watching all the videos on this page. My boss may get mad at me for doing that instead of working, but hey, this stuff's important.
We were living in New Delhi during the AN-22 flights to Bangladesh following the Bhola cyclone of November 1970. Our home was near the approach to the Delhi International Airport, a stopover. The roar of the counter rotating props was unbelievable on the approach. I can’t imagine what it must have been like to have been near the takeoff flight path.
Soviet aeronautical engineers were always great they designed more to the limit than western engineers the AN22 is simply a magnificent legend regards from Colombia
The fact that so few were produced is proof of how much of a failure this aircraft was.
@@CH-pv2rz Using that same logic, the US Space shuttle can be called a failure cos how few of em were produced.
33:00 "It is unlikely it's craters thought it would still be flying in the skies of 2021." while an An-2 taxis in the back ground.
I'm betting *IT'S* creators would be even more surprised the An-2 would still me flying in 2021.
Haha, yes the creators of the an-2 in the 1940s would have been shocked to learn that this plane is still flying
@@frankgaleon5124 The An-2 is a good, well built airplane.
It's also huge for a single engine plane.
There is a video of a small plane caught in the wake turbulence left from an An-2. Even with full opposite aileron the small plane rolled over and crashed.
ruclips.net/video/KXlv16ETueU/видео.html
I noticed that too. XD Russia really seems to be the country of "Only THIS aircraft can do what it does."
I flew on one when I was a child
@@93ndani You were lucky. The Soviet Government did not want American children to fly their planes. I wanted to fly a MiG-21 but they wouldn't let me. Nor would my dad.
The sound alone at altitude can be heard 80 km away when it's quiet.
FAA:🗿
The AN-12 uses the same engines as the TU-95 Bear, the NK-12. These engine are so noisy that US submarine sonar crews could hear underwater, when a TU-95 flew over.
@@mardiffv.8775 No an-12 use "АИ-20" engine from an-10
@@chumichov6g371 Allright, I did not know. Thank you for telling me that.
@@mardiffv.8775 Всегда пожалуйста)
I love this plane! They're still flying above my home town from time to time, you can hear them coming from 5-10Km.
Still flying, one visited Leipzig this winter. Seen it approaching the airport, knew when it left by it's sound, you can't miss it, so loud and unique.
Your channel deserves more viewers.
I once flew on a AN22, as I dit on a AN12, AN26, AN124, all chartered by the firme I was working for then to deliver freight all over Europe starting in EBOS. The AN22 is the one that surpriced me the most. The last AN22 landed on EBOS in september and it had then 200 flying hours left.
Been inside one of these beasts. It is truly massive. Navigator in the nose must of had one of the most amazing views while traveling.
My man, you know your videos are bloody amazing, right? Of course you do.
I think after reading actual Jane's Defence, your videos are probably my most favourite. Ever.
Great job
I always know when the 22 flies over my head. It is the loudest turboprop I've ever heard.
Russians are turboprop kings. My _gosh,_ the _SOUND_ of that AN-22 should be on iTunes! 😮
But not jet kings in fact
@@frankgaleon5124 Troll much?
Antonov is in Ukraine and however part of Soviet Union, both Antonov Engineering and Motor-Sich are both in Ukraine till day and most of the engineering thought is local. Mass production is of course Soviet indeed with all their powers.
@@AgnieszkaPiasecka
The biggest part of the antonov's engeniers was russians
How can 69 aircraft be a king over 2500+ C 130s
Well-written and extremely informative. Great narration too.
Better than many other sites.
uuummm....everything he is saying is found on, Wikipedia and some other forums and or articles. lol. it's not some hard and crazy information to find and learn. it's just most people today are too damn lazy to do their own research for learning stuff. ha.
Awesome plane! Looking forward watching the review! Thank you sky! 👍
A lovely design concept. I once watched a video of the AN-22 landing in a dirt strip to deliver harvesters and tractors to remote collective farms. And the application of a turboprop helped with short-field performance, fuel efficiency and FOD damage.
Much respect to Antonov in the creation of this huge aircraft. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Sky, I know I'm late to the party, but thanks for the English channel. Your vids are so well made!
One more ABSOLUTELY AMAZING video - Please keep up this excellent work !
High quality. Thanks for posting!
It is wonderful to see the tech from "behind the curtain." Many of the non-combatant aircraft were largely unknown to me.
uuummm....everything he is saying is found on, Wikipedia and some other forums and or articles. lol. it's not some hard and crazy information to find and learn. it's just most people today are too damn lazy to do their own research for learning stuff. ha.
Just found another absolute gem on here. These videos are just fantastic!
Many thanks as always Skyships.
A great aeronautical creation, and contribution to aviation history !
The only commercial AN-22 took of a few times from Ostend Airport in Belgium last year, I live 40km away and I could hear it when it was just in the air.
And it still not so loud as the Tu-95)
I was the guest on board of Antonov 12 in 2019. From Dnipro to Kyiv-Zhuliany with some VIPs, it was so cool to fly this :)
Crazy,
Also techmoan music in bg lol
Fascinating! I had often wondered about the details of this aircraft. Thank you for such an enlightening video!
The contest about turboprop vs jet enginners it was clear the winner was AN 22 🤩. Embrace from Brasil love u channel.
Loved this vid sir!
AN22 is indeed a legendary aircraft.
Enjoy your channel!
Glad you like it)
Such a huge work here again! Excellent
looks real nice from the front end ........... top post
Ace video, and the quality of the narration was superb. Whoever does the narration should be awarded an Oscar.
National Geographic! Awesome Sky!
What a well done documentary! Thank you for the no-nonsense presentation and clarity of narration.
My favourite big plane. I grew up in a USAF family and it wasn't till I got older did I really learn to appreciate the genius of Russian aircraft design.
I enjoy all of the aviation themed videos on RUclips, but yours are always the best. The sound of your voice is such that you could narrate a video on rubber bands and make it entertaining, it is as uniquely your own as are the voices of Frank Sinatra or Tina Turner. Couple that with excellent material, accuracy and superb editing, and it is, another top-notch production, as always.
32:52 "In any case, Antei can be considered a happy plane~" Well you just need to look at that big smile. c:
Loved every moment of it . And probably my 4th time.
Thanks from California.
I think you are a wonderful man for both the very high quality of your work and the extensive coverage of aircrafts. Thank you so very much and keep up the good work. I hope they pay you well!
There are AN 124 based out of Houston International Airport used by a freight airline. Beautiful beast I enjoy seeing from a nearby commuter highway.
The an-22 came along at the right time and to this day have capabilities that nothing made today can match. Good job of letting us meet this giant from the past Sky.
For those wondering about the An-22 parked on the tarmac with 2 turbofan engines on the left side; it is being used as a test mule for a new engine for in flight testing. This is not unheard of: in the US in the 1960's, when B-52's were plentiful, one had it's inner right pod of two turbojet engines replaced with a ridiculously large (there are pictures if you look hard enough, and this engine is like 3x the diameter of the turbojets on the aircraft) high bypass turbofan. That engine was being tested for, and later powered the C-5 Galaxy.
Awesome narration, and excellent information on this beautiful monster!👍👍👍👍👍👍
a real workhorse, simple and effective
Great video! 😁👍 I really enjoyed all the info and stories from so many perspectives and decades. Nice work! I wish we still had all the research, developments, and design breakthroughs like the 50's and 60's.
uuummm....everything he is saying is found on, Wikipedia and some other forums and or articles. lol. it's not some hard and crazy information to find and learn. it's just most people today are too damn lazy to do their own research for learning stuff. ha.
Great video mate, I really enjoy your channel!!! I like the way you narrate these well researched, well put together and interesting videos, often with a hint of humour
The old soviet AN-22 is just an awesome plane!
Extremely well done, (as usual 👏), thank you for sharing.
I've seen it twice this year in Belgrade, imagine coming home from work and seeing a giant turboprop line up on final.
16:45 Also, it is helpful to put the rudders into the propwash of the engines. This was seen in several models of bombers and large cargo planes of the 1930's and 40's.
When I was ten, I saw this airplane flying over our quiet suburb of Montreal and I was so impressed by its size. In those days, Aeroflot was coming to Montreal Dorval which is one of the most beautiful airport with its cool sixties design and designers seats. In 1962, Montreal had the largest airport terminal in the world where every airliner used to land. I remember seeing these Swissair Convair 880 next to an Air France Boeing 707 next to a Russian Il-62 looking similar to that VC10 of BOAC. TWA, Pan Am, Olympic and many more made you dream when you saw your father embarking in those Air Canada DC8.
Great video, love all the details!!
That drop scene at 03:50 is pure madness! lol
Fascinating Aircraft Story. Well Done . Magnificence
Just found this channel and love it .. subbed
Welcome!
What a beautiful aircraft. BRAVO on the video production!
Another great video from Sky! ☺️
Fantastic aviation history lesson. Great job!
very nice as usual ! you re a passionate and we can feel it
I've seen one in the flesh and it is loud and big lol. Leaves a great smoke trail too.
Wow. That wing is amazingly
narrow for how huge the Antonov is. Makes it look very graceful despite the bulk of the fuselage.
I still beat myself over the head with the fact that I had a rare opportunity to go and see a real flying AN-22 from the Antonov airlines that was present at EBOS,
about 90 kilometers from my hometown back in 2017, but I missed it... I mean, how often do you come across such magnificent beasts let alone ones that fly?
A brilliant documentary! Well narrated, with humor and knowledge.
Some may not like Antonov designs and some may even hate them, ( I love them) but you just can't take away from the fact that simplicity of design and the plain fact that they work extremely well and my favourite is the annie
I saw one west of Moscow when going to Kubinka museum. It flew overhead and you could feel the throbbing in the air and it was LOUD!!!
Another amazing and well researched video, Skyships ENG... Thank You...
What I like about pretty much all Russian aircraft is the fact that they're impressive, powerful, well designed, always a tad larger than their US rivals, tough and versatile. They also often surprise Western experts when being unveiled to the World.
very interesting video, thank you skyships!
Congratulation to you. Fascinating and honest.
I'm an aviator!!!
Actually I'm too stupid to be a pilot but just smart enough to listen to these wonderful documentaries!
👍
love these vids man
I wish you did documentaries on Nebula or early release. Amazing video. Love your Chanel, and keep going