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
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