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Antonov AN-2
Popham on an English summer’s day, the field en fete for an Air Ambulance fundraiser; tents, dogs and daisies, and the tranquil buzzing of lazy aeroplanes in the circuit. Down into the arena come the parachutists, all five square on the mark in the face of a blustery breeze, then in the overhead we see the machine from which they fell − an elderly biplane to which all eyes are drawn because in contravention of every law of physics it has stopped dead in mid-air.
At least it looks like it from where the crowd is standing; in fact it sideslips slightly into wind, making maybe ten knots over the ground, hanging on the prop with little more than 35 knots of air over the wings. Slats extended, flaps at 40 degrees, throttle on the high side, it hovers nose-up like a kestrel hunting mice at the roadside. Such a party trick is the province of few conventional fixed-wing aircraft; the Fieseler Storch can pull it off, but this old biplane can hold six tonnes aloft and fly backwards in anything of a wind. It is of course the massive, magnificent, ludicrous, lovely Antonov An-2. Fabled as the world’s biggest single-engined biplane, the Annie makes other aircraft look, sound and feel anaemic, and once you have flown her you will always have a high mark against which to measure life’s experiences. She pokes up two big fingers at the quaint notion that if it looks right, it’ll fly right − she’s living proof of the fact that if you pack in enough power, you could get Tower Bridge off the ground.
