Antonov @ DUB

muppet01

Hi, passin by today on the way home and could see what looked like an Antonov AN12 transport on the apron opposite the fire station.Thought it was a Herc first. ???

Ilyushin76

I think its this one

An Udaras

Wow! She's certainly well travelled brazil to india if that same A/C

Ilyushin76

An Udaras wrote: »

Wow! She's certainly well travelled brazil to india if that same A/C

I was looking at that too,would be a great job to have !

Edit- found a picture of it at Dublin

Tenger

Close up shots courtesy of EI-AMD on flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcdee6174/6581934499/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcdee6174/6582150241/in/photostream/

Delancey

A tad off topic perhaps but I was wondering if the Russians still build civil aircraft with glazed noses which I presume was designed to facilitate conversion to military use ?

Stovepipe

Hi there
It used to be the case that all Russian/Soviet civil aircraft were considered to be available to the Military in wartime, which is why they all had an Aeroflot registration and a Military one, along with every single bus and truck. The glazed nose is a navigator's station and the navigator actually sets and tunes the navaids. The pilot does not change navaid frequencies like a Western pilot. The glazed nose can also be a bomb-aimer's station. All of the Antonov turboprops could do both. On the An-12, the tail turret was often "civilianised" by blanking out the windows with paint and dismounting the 23mm cannon, which could be stowed on a platform in the tailcone. The turret could then be reactivated easily. Pure civvie An-12s have the turret faired over and the ballmount removed and the controls stripped out. Antonovs and Ilyushins have been used as ad-hoc bombers in African wars.

regards
Stovepipe

Tenger

Courtesy of Elevationair on flickr, we have the An12BK taking off with dramatic smoke effects!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elevationair/6588415485/

I would have like to have heard it aking off.

lord lucan

Tenger wrote: »

Courtesy of Elevationair on flickr, we have the An12BK taking off with dramatic smoke effects!!

It must have been her i seen arriving then on the 23rd. I could see an aircraft on approach to 28 and it had a very obvious smoke trail,visible from a considerable distance out. I was on a break and took a couple of crappy pics on my phone.

Stovepipe

It must be burning coal, not avtur. The hippies would love to see them banned, of course.

regards
Stovepipe

xflyer

A few years ago, IBM needed to ship out servers before the end of the quarter. So they hired a fleet of An12s to move them. Great excitement for the spotters in Dublin. Not so great for the guys in Server who had to work Christmas day.

They're not so busy now. I wonder if that An12 is being used to ship out the very few servers they're building now.

zone 1

i seen them work in africa up close landing on gravel runways.

Carvair

More excellent pictures of it here ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38016434@N05/6594123027/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38016434@N05/6594111775/in/photostream/