This is An-24 plane that is trying to take off on the very very muddy runway. It seems that it won’t manage but it keeps moving and splashing all this mud around.
The video was taken in Bodaybo, the Irkutsk region.
And this is the same plane and the video taken from inside of it (better start watching from the second minute):
Maybe if the plane could think by itself it would never come back.
now to find a rain storm to fly thru for bath
Russian equipment is expected to work under some of the most awful conditions known to man. It’s why several of the military jets have landing gear with extreme amounts of travel and FOD doors on the intakes. Looks like it takes manly men without glass balls to be a pilot. The US has similar, they’re known as Alaskan Bush Pilots.
I was thinking that. Those pilots must have backsides made of steel and a lot of confidence in their aircraft to just shrug off all that fishtailing on the take off.
Holy sheep how is that possible.
Mud? Shit!
That is why they made An-24s
Also the 1st and the 2nd video are from two different occasions.
There’s snow in the first and green in the second.
Ah! Now I remember why we installed a MLG drag stay!
You know the mud is deep if you have to use full throttle to taxi to the active runway.