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Travel Photo, Inside an Antonov An-26 Curl Russian Airplane Traveling the North Pole.
North Pole Expedition 2002.
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Travel Photo, Inside an Antonov An-26 Curl Russian Airplane Traveling the North Pole.North Pole Expedition 2002. |
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Travel Photo Looking at the Cockpit of the Antonov An-26 Curl Airplane as we are Traveling for the North Pole. |
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| We are finally off the ground and heading for the North Pole in this impressive Antonov 26 Russian cargo aircraft. This is a picture of the cockpit from back where I was sitting. There were five crew members in this airplane, a pilot, co-pilot, throttle man, engineer and navigator. As we flew I watched the hardest working person on the airplane, the navigator, go through his paces. He was always calculating something, he would then look up at the sextant located on the top of the airplane. He do some more calculations then get up and look through the sextant again. The flight engineer was pretty hard working too. He had to make cup after cup of coffee for the rest of the crew. The one man that just seemed to do nothing but sit was the throttle man. He didn't have to do anything until we landed, then I realized why they needed a throttle man. When we first touched down at Camp Barneo , the North Pole Base Camp, We didn't cover any more than three feet of runway when the throttle man applied full, reverse, thrust. It was a fantastic operation to watch as all of the crew members worked so perfectly together in their efforts to get this large 50,000 pound plane to stop on the all Ice, 3000 foot runway. |
One of our
Expedition Members took this ride to the Edge of Space,
he
said it was absolutely fantastic.
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Sredney Island Links, Sredney is also commonly spelled Srednij
Skydiving
on the North Pole takes you through Srednij island
Coal
Quality and Resources of the Former Soviet Union
Anature
Radio Logbook of Srednij Island contacts, look about halfway down the page
Forward base Amature
Radio Operator at Srednij Island
Russian Aircraft Links
Motorcycles for Sale
Antonov
AN-26 with interior layout diagrams
Aircraft
types for charter
Russian
Airplane Models
Aviation
World Many cargo aircraft for sale or lease
Antonov
An-26 used for arms transport
Aircraft specs
for many Russian Planes
Russian Aviation
a great site.
An-24
and An-26 photos
Airline
History Airliners of the 1970s with lots of Russian Aircraft
Airliners
of the 60's
Antonov
An-26 (Curl)
Antonov
An-26 Curl
The background
picture on this page is an actual photo of the
snow on the North
Pole. -- C. Jeff Dyrek, webmaster
Click Here for Jaguar Sports Cars for Sale
Click Here to go to the YellowAirplane Online Museum
Look at these exhibits and tell me what these men really fought for.
The 34th Fighter SquadronThe 34th fighter Squadron
WW2 Exhibit
USS Kitty Hawk Aircraft Carrier Exhibit.
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