{"id":14145,"date":"2021-07-31T23:43:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T06:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=14145"},"modified":"2021-07-31T23:43:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T06:43:07","slug":"nine-engines-two-wings-dep-antonov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/nine-engines-two-wings-dep-antonov\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Engines and Two Wings \u2013 the DEP Antonov"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sporting no less than nine powerplants, eight of which are electric, a cold-war biplane stunned the crowd at a Russian air show.\u00a0 Part of the 15th International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS 2021<\/a> held on July 20-25, a Siberian adaptation of a Russian classic drew widespread attention.\u00a0 Your editor has had the privilege of enjoying two flights in the original giant AN-2 biplane powered by a Schwezow ASch-62IR nine-cylinder radial engine with 1000 horsepower.\u00a0 That engine sounded like a freight train grumbling through the valley over which we flew.\u00a0 This new version has a 1,100 shaft horsepower Honeywell turbine in the nose and eight motors with folding propellers arrayed along the lower wing. \u00a0The sound is futuristic, while the airframe is anachronistic.<\/p>\n