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Date of upload: Jul 17, 2022 ^^
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In Alaska where I used to live, I've seen bush pilots hit a headwind just right and set down a bush plane in a matter of a few feet, some areas have competitions to find the pilot that can land a plane in the shortest area, the current record is out of Valdez, at 9 feet 5 inches, (roughly 2.87 meters) essentially sticking the landing, rather than a rolling stop like most aircraft. Is it possible that the pilot did something similar in this case?
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Your statement about the AN-2 stall speed isn’t quite right, generally a stall occurs when the relative airflow over the wings is slow enough that you experience boundary layer separation and the wing stops generating lift. In something like a biplane this speed is typically lower because of the huge effective wing area to generate lift.
It is possible that the aircraft was loaded in a condition where the center of gravity was dangerously close to the center of lift (center of pressure to the pedants) such that in a stall the aircraft wouldn’t want to tip nose down out of the stalled condition. This means you could have a situation where if the plane had an engine failure and the crew trimmed the plane nose up, it could have rode down to the ground darn near vertically, and been intact when it got to the ground.
My theory is the crew bailed when they ran low or out of fuel and then the aft loaded plane fell mostly vertical into the forest, it’s possible the latches would have closed and locked after the crew exited like on other aircraft, or there was slight damaged which caused a warping of the airframe and jammed the door shut.
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I know of crashed ww2 bomber far out in the wilderness near a very popular National Park. It's not exactly a secret, the military finished any recovery effort shortly after it happened. However it never made any newspaper that I know of and seemingly everyone forgot about it. Then a few locals rediscovered it in the 90s. Ever since then it has been a secret spot only shared amongst a small circle of locals. It made it to me in the mid 00s because I was a local of the area (before I later moved), a voracious hiker, and my family has deep roots in the area. The friend who told me and i resolved to go see it one summer. He was an active marathon runner and I had done my fair share of stomping up mountainsides in the recent past, despite this, we could not make it to the spot. It lays a dozen miles past the mountain lake terminus of one of the hardest hiking trails in the whole park, we did get past that area. But after that we discovered the area surrounding the wreck is a series of ungodly ascents and descents not accurately portrayed by the topo maps. We had near run ourselves to complete exhaustion just attempting the first 2km section after the lake so we called it off and went back to the lake to overnight and then return. We returned so thrashed and injured (sunburnt, dehydrated, cut up from bushwalking, and the entire soles of both my feet became giant blisters that then excruciatingly popped halfway back) that we never attempted it again. It's a deathtrap and after our attempt I knew why it's kept secret and I had a new inkling as to the fate of a few familiar names that had gone missing over the years. If I hadnt seen photos of it nestled in the jprecarious and jagged terrain I would think it was a cruel joke. I hope the location of the plane is still a secret known to a handful because something like that is too enticing for people not to throw away their lives getting to it.
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I'm sending this video to my relative in Russia. He was in the USSR Military intelligence unit around about that time. I'll see if he knows anything about the Siberian A2 Antonov. I agree that it is a durable plane, has good high lift and landing capacity in areas that have bad runways, but in a forest is a bit much.
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Man, it seems like a lot of creepy stuff happens in Russia! I've never heard this story before, and I'm glad for this episode. The alien abduction theory is tempting, thought the more mundane explanation is probably more likely. But that doesn't explain why the hell the pilot would've flown the plane out there in the first place!
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Another explanation may be that they carried the plane inside the forest in pieces and built it there and placed all the stuff inside, like a film set. The question is why anyone would do that, of course.
Or, since it is a story originating in military gossip, it could all be fake news. Anyone that served in the military or knows people who serve is aware that there is no shortage of outlandish stories shared by the people in the camp. Seems to be a common theme among the militaries of all countries.
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@marginbuu212
1 year ago
How considerate of the aliens to gently lower the aircraft to the ground so the Russians could reuse it afterwards. They're probably the kind of people who return shopping carts to the shopping cart return spots.
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