Boeing may use Antonov An-72 as platform for FCA bid

FlightInternational.com ^ | 20/01/2006 | STEPHEN TRIMBLE

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and children...

[hattend]

http://www.edwards.af.mil/moments/docs_html/75-08-26.html

[KellyAdmirer]

As Monty Python would say, "but she has large ... tracts of land."

[RayChuang88]

Don't the over wing engines help with short field performance?

It's called the Coanda effect, where the airflow follows the surface of the airfoil design. That's why the Boeing YC-14 and Antonov An-72/74 had high-mounted engines, since the airflow from the engine exhaust actually followed the large wing flaps right behind the engine itself in a process called upper surface blowing. This results in dramatic reduction in takeoff and landing runs; indeed, the An-72 during its public demonstrations showed it could land and takeoff with the runway equivalent of not much more than the length of two American football fields!

The version of the An-74 proposed would probably use the same General Electric CF34 variant now used on the Embraer 190 regional jet airliner.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Coanda Effect and its quieter than it would be if you hung the engines below the wing.

[Paleo Conservative]

The version of the An-74 proposed would probably use the same General Electric CF34 variant now used on the Embraer 190 regional jet airliner.

I wonder if Boeing would also use lighter more advanced alloys than Antonov used.

[martin_fierro]

From the people who brought us, "NOW ISS SWIMWEAR! NOW ISS EEVENINKVEAR!"

[Petronski]

Vedy niiice!

[martin_fierro]

Wish I could find that commercial online (it used to be somewhere just a few months ago). Classic!

The women could've been from Cheswick or Sharpsburg.

[spectre]

Dear Boeing:

Don't even THINK about it.

[Petronski]

She might well have been my ancestor.

[Clemenza]

The women could've been from Cheswick or Sharpsburg.

They were actually Polish American women from Chicago.

[Petronski]

Vedy niiiice!

[fella]

Isn't that the plane that Bruce Willis punched out of in one of those "Die Hard" movies?

[MindBender26]

The Tu-94 Bear was REALLY loud. The counter-rotating propellers' tips were supersonic at cruise speeds. All old Tu-94 crews are deaf as stumps.

It was so loud that it was bothersome to crews of our interceptors 100 meters away!

[DoughtyOne]

[Rate_Determining_Step]

That was one of the funniest commercial I've ever seen. Still makes me laugh!

[gridlock]

C-27J Spartan

CASA C-295

CASA CN-235

[Squint]

Them Russians sure build ugly airplanes!

Ugly, but functional. Still, what does it say about the state of the U.S. aircraft industry when Boeing, the 800 lb. gorilla of the transport aircraft business, has to offer a Soviet-era aircraft to meet a government requirement?

[Squint]

Kinda looks like a C-130 with big turbofans.