Antonov An-26 The Traveling Experience (Cuba)

[@Gutodaflauta]

Em 1992 voei como passageiro de Havana para Cayo largo nesta aeronave. Belo passeio, Boas lembranças

[@kaybatra]

My dad was flight engineer / loadmaster in these planes. He was a NCO for the Peruvian Air Force during the 80's. Our AN-26s weren't so good for the mountains, so Perú bought AN-32 instead. What happened with our old An-26s? Well, Peruvian crews dropped them in Cuba. I wonder if some of those were still flying by 2013 :)

[@dennischong764]

That ground crew at 9:59 seemed like walking so near the propeller blades was like nothing!

[@jackyclaiborne2142]

With the passengers boarding from the rear, it's possible to "hot load" with both the port and starboard engines running, if they are pressed for time. I'm a big fan of turboprop airliners! Many say that driving a vehicle with a manual transmission is "real driving". I say that flying in a propeller driven airliner is "real flying"! I love the sound that the props make over the whine of the jet engines. In full idle speed, and taxiing, they make your basic "box fan" sound. In takeoff and inflight, ;they make what I call the "Bumblebee" sound. I wish that most mainline aircraft, used for most domestic flights, like the Boeing 737, and the Airbus A-320, were turboprop instead of pure jet. The 60 cycle flicker of the computer or TV screen creates optical illusions of the props spinning slower or backwards. I see that they are taxiing in on just the starboard engine, probably to save fuel. To equalize engine wear, I would favor the "POSH" rule for one engine taxiing. "Port Out, Starboard Home". That means taxi out on the port engine, and taxi in on the starboard engine.

[@qbw8834]

increíble, yo soy de playa y nunca me paso por la cabeza ir aquí, mucho mejor esto q andar en guagua todo sudado rodeado de una pila de locos, talvez la próxima vez q vaya a cuba pase por aquí....., como tiene q ser!!!joneee

[@temik215]

Greets from the homeland of AN-26 Russia! I've flew on Antonov AN-24 2 times and AN-26 once. A lovely sovietic plane I must say. Hmmm... Nostalgia

[@icaro2004cl]

The homeland of Antonov is Ukraine, not Russia

[@FranciscoCamino]

I flew once a windowless AN24 from Santiago to La Habana at night. We got into a nasty storm, and it was such a terrible experience that it took a long time to fly again.

[@wilfredotour3]

That sounds like a horrible experience.

[@FranciscoCamino]

Indeed it was

[@jesusraydelsanchezrodrigue8279]

+Fran Camino: My worst experience was on a Cubana flight from Nassau (The Bahamas) to Havana several years ago. When the plane was about to land, we got caught up in some sort of storm and it felt like we were going to crash. It was really scary and everyone started to scream.

[@jamescibie]

An-26B i was the pilot there lillllllllll!

[@ThePilotFromNYC]

Amazing footage Wilfredo, and thank you so much for sharing. I would love to be PIC or even a passenger on one of these birds, if i was given the chance. Great video...well edited, and the music at the beginning is perfect. :)

[@craigpennington1251]

Never been on one but I would like the experience sometime. Cool paint job. I do like the looks of this aircraft and I'm sure it flies very well.

[@juliolopez2982]

Baracoa tenia una linea de señalización en el mar. En un vuelo de grupo un piloto la confundió con la luz roja del avión precedente y se estrelló contra el mar.

[@mayito8968]

Q Baracoa? Guantánamo? O la UM 3688 en playa Baracoa, Habana?

[@juliolopez2982]

@mayito8968 playa Baracoa, La Habana.

[@mayito8968]

@@juliolopez2982 pues yo fuí radiotelegrafista de AN26(chipojo) y MI8 (melón) y si me acuerdo de ese accidente,fué en año 89,el error desgraciadamente fué el del jefe de nave

[@orestesdanielguerraaizpuru8468]

Viaje en este avión desde el aeropuerto de Baracoa en la Habana, hasta Cayo largo en el 2010 , para entonces aún permitían pasar a la cabina de los pilotos, toda una experiencia que se vino abajo después del 11/9.

[@MLQUILLA]

Cuba hasta cuando desde Barranquilla Colombia siempre vives en mi

[@jrtraptor1653]

Ni loco me monto en ese aparato

[@limaim26]

Great footage, but I'd be really scared to fly in one those birds. Again, I still enjoyed the video.

[@WMAcadet]

Very nice! It's too bad that the chance to ride on these old Soviet types is rapidly disappearing. I'm wondering, though.... What was an American Airlines 737-800 doing in Holguin?

[@wilfredotour3]

WMAcadet American Airlines is very common to see in Cuba.

[@WMAcadet]

***** Are they charters?

[@helmyabdullah1962]

Excellent video . As if I'm one of the passengers of that Russian bird . Never been on board AN-26 , ever . It's a Russian version of the Dutch made Fokker 27 and Fokker 50 only a bit rougher . But still I damn like it !

[@jotyers7845]

you like it I Hate it . It is very Ugly

[@jotyers7845]

Jo Tyers What an Ugly Plane

[@helmyabdullah1962]

Thank You Tyers . Of course , all Soviet/Russian-made airplanes , land vehicles , vessels and weapons or weapon system are ugly looking and tend to break down easily . They don't care about quality .

[@wilfredotour3]

Jo Tyers I don't think there's such thing as an ugly airplane.

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

HELMY ABDULLAH russian equivalent

[@juliolopez2982]

Mira que despegue en el desde ahi hasta que cijieron el vuelo militar para probar los ATR-72.

[@nugget3131]

my parents flew on cuban airlines an-26 once, the back cargo door slamed on the runway when it landed

[@wanjevi]

Thanks wilfredo , you didn't get the window seat because you are the last one to board 😆😆🤣

[@wilfredotour3]

At minute 8:26 you can hear me ask "what is the cleanest window in this airplane" and the flight attendant proceeded to inform me that the airplane only has 6 windows, and he specified to me that my sit would be 9C. The airplane was packed and I was literally the second passenger to board it. My intentions were to pick my desired sit like I had been able to do in prior flights. But this time they decided to treat the airplane like an airplane instead of a public bus with no assigned seats.

[@dva511]

What camera do you have again? , Great video as always man.

[@yaorongdai8454]

My hometown is Xi'an, and our specialty, Xi'an MA-60 is based on this aircraft (An-24,26,32).

[@spearmint4093]

it just crashed in cuba. r.i.p

[@kacperowski4361]

4:37, car from cold war, from russia, sorry USSR?

[@e20plm]

If they taxi a tat faster then that the co-pilot will call out V1

[@hamytlesthad9822]

I wouldnt ride that old plane even for free

[@Gutodaflauta]

I've got it, in 1992. In a tour from Havana to Cayo largo

[@gabrielness8419]

dash 8 ripoff?

[@ChrisCokeRobinson]

+Gabriel Ness no..apart from the fact it has no windows...its a workhorse..its first flight was waaaay before the dash 8 was even in thoughts of designers...back in 1969..

[@gabrielness8419]

oh

[@Raddyk12]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@axl1632]

more like an Fairchild/Fokker F27

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

Gabriel Ness lol way older

[@นันทินีณชัยนาท]

No roosters singing around and over like those in Haiti.

[@VITAMINA51164]

old airplane

[@sgismundo]

but it´s safety

[@N145PM]

no

[@sgismundo]

no? why do you say that?

[@pilot76aviation]

Old no, very old!

[@ВалентинЦарук-й3т]

ЦЕ НА РІВНІ ПРИВАТНОІ-КОМЕРЦІЙНОІ АВІАЦІІ ... Є МЕРЕЖА ПРИВАТНИХ АЕРОДРОМІВ ... , І Т. Д. ... І НЕ ТІЛЬКИ ...

[@manuelsilvera9537]

No es gran maquina el AN26, le tengo desconfianza a los ATR. Son como traidores. Manuel Silvera Beltrán. Piloto Comercial, colombiano.

[@ВалентинЦарук-й3т]

КРІМ ТОГО , ... "СПЕЦІАЛІЗОВАНА АВІАКОМПАНІЯ " МЕРЕДІАН РУССКІЙ СЄВЄР " " !...

[@manuelfloresescobar7657]

los ATR franco-italianos son mas inseguros q estos aviones rusos-sovieticos!...estos son mas duros!

[@N145PM]

.. What an embarrassment.