[ASOC]

LOL
We still have DC-3s and a single AN-2 hauling cargo here in Alaska - the last of the DC-6s were just retired.

The An-2 is a brilliant machine for rural and non-technical areas - Africa come to mind. While many here love to deride the aircraft of the Old Soviet, they are pragmatic designs for use in ‘undeveloped’ parts of the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-2

www.bbc.com/future/story/20150415-the-plane-that-can-fly-backwards

and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV4dk5cYRf0

[ASOC]

Least anyone think the AN-2 is a dead design - there is a “bionic’ AN-2 - with turbine power, Fowler flaps and wingtip vortice generators for extreme STOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgOPpf3Impw

enjoy

[BBell]

It seems that few people here appreciate the an 2. I'm not talking about it being used in any "swarm tactics" I am just speaking about it as a plane.

Have you ever watched "Ice Pilots"? I watched all the episodes available on netflix. I loved the show mainly because of all the WWII planes. In one of the episodes they have to hoard stores of av gas because it is getting low. They worry about how they will have to retire their av gas planes when they can no longer get it. Nothing like changing a rear tire on a plane when it's -30 and "extremely" breezy.