Guided tour through the world's largest turboprop - the Antonov An-22

Join me in this detailed tour of an Antonov An22 heavy transport aircraft on display at the Technik Museum in Speyer, Germany. This includes the exterior, the cargo section and the crew/passenger compartment.
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0:00 intro
0:40 history and nose
1:30 Auxiliary power units
1:52 fairing design and unique landing gear
2:58 Kuznetsov NK-12MA turboprop engines with four-bladed contra-rotating propellers
4:25 wing design
4:50 tail end with dual fins and cargo doors
7:00 entering cargo bay
8:38 internal electric hoists
09:02 navigators station
9:30 upstairs crew area and cockpit
11:25 nuclear powered An-22
12:32 Tu-144 and Buran orbiter

[@bkdexter79]

I appreciate your videos very much! No loud background music, just honestly good fact filled narration. Thank you Paul!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Glad you enjoyed them Bruce. I try and keep them on point and avoid faffing about

[@kevinbarry71]

The Greek mythological character that the Russians named this plane after is all powerful provided he stays in contact with the ground. Which strikes me as an absolutely insane name for an airplane

[@zorilaz]

This planes were built by ANOTOV which was founded by Oleg ANOTOV. That was his name. Nothing to do with your Greek character . People making up shit lol

[@dallesamllhals9161]

@@zorilaz Antaeus!

[@kevinbarry71]

@@zorilaz you are an idiot

[@dr.jillalicecooper2587]

​@@zorilaz Antonov not Anotov😂

[@watsisbuttndo829]

No worse than the brits naming their carrier bourne aircraft the "gannet". A bird that dives head first into the sea!

[@crashburn3292]

I learn something every time I watch. I didn't know the Antonov An-22 had the same turboprop engine as the TU 95 Bear.

[@jasongarufi8187]

Another great tour, the Antonov An-22 is certainly a huge aircraft

[@boeing747iscool]

i didn't know this plane was even made but now i know thank you

[@fattywithafirearm]

Thats insane how big it is.

[@keithammleter3824]

Paul, at 5:20 you said that having 2 small fin/rudder arrangements instead on one large one reduces torque (stress) on the airframe. That doesn't make much sense. To achieve a given level of yaw stability you need a certain total fin area. To achieve a specified amount of directional control you need a certain total rudder area. With these predetermined areas, the torque imparted on the airframe is the same, regardless of whether it is one big fin+rudder, or 2 or more smaller ones adding up to the same total area. There is, however, a very minor, almost insignificant, structural advantage in the fin(s) themselves. You don't want them bending, nor oscillating in the wind like a violin string. To achieve the required fin stiffness, the amount of metal needed in the internal framing/bracing in 2 small fins is less than that needed in one large fin, due to lower internal leverage. This may have been what your source was referring too - torque within the fins, not torque imparted to the airframe.

[@ronjon7942]

That’s interesting, I never gave it much thought either way.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Thanks for the extra information Keit and what you say makes perfect sense too.

[@Calebs_Aviation]

Great video Paul! The Technik Museum is definitely on my list to visit hopefully this winter when I head to Germany! Also this aircraft the AN 22 reminds me a lot of the Soviet built Tupolev TU-114 airliner and TU-116 VIP transport turboprop aircraft which were based off the TU-95 bomber and built to compete with the American built airliners and VIP transport planes like the Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation and its military counterpart. 😊Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev has the TU-114/6 built! 😮

[@792slayer]

Definitely a cool museum. Looks like you can walk through a lot of the displays.

[@Calebs_Aviation]

@@792slayer Hope to walk through the LH B747-200 there! 😊

[@792slayer]

@@Calebs_Aviation that would be pretty cool.

[@Calebs_Aviation]

@@792slayer I hopefully will visit this winter and keep an eye out for a video about if I do on my KZbin channel Caleb’s Aviation! Thx!

[@Calebs_Aviation]

@@792slayer I hopefully will visit this winter and keep an eye out for a video about if I do on my KZbin channel Caleb’s Aviation! Thx!

[@brentsummers7377]

Very nice review! The navigator had a very spacious work station.😀

[@whatever8282828]

It is fascinating how contra-rotating props were prized in USSR and dismissed by western militaries in the same era. As you discuss, they have some obvious advantages (no torque/yaw) but some similarly obvious disadvantages (very complicated gearing and maintenance). It is interesting to see USA finally musing about them for future helicopters all these decades later.

[@keithammleter3824]

Contra-rotating props were used in many aircraft of both Britain and the USA as piston engine power output rose during wartime development in WW2. The classic example is the Spitfire fighter - it started out with a 770 kW engine and three propellor blades, and ended up with a 1700 kW engine and 6 blades in a contra-rotation configuration. The US Mustang fighter had the same engine and contra prop arrangement. Quite a few American aircraft large and small had contra-rotation props. But post war, both countries concentrated on jet engines. It is not the case that the US military didn't like contra-rotation props. It was that they wanted jets, because jets are simpler and more reliable. In the early 1950's the thinking in both the US and Britain was that flying at very high altitude was required, in order to make it hard for enemies to shoot them down with ack-ack. At high altitude, props loose their fuel economy advantage. The poor serviceability and high failure rate of the B-36 large post-war propellor bomber made the USAAF concentrate on simplicity and reliability and go for jets. In the USSR, their post war planning concentrated on turboprops as they had much better fuel economy than the early jets. But to handle the large power output of the turbine engines, you need more propellor blade area. So you need more blades - hence contrarotation. The USSR planners expected their turboprop airliner to sell well in export markets - unfortunately for them the travelling public preferred jets.

[@whatever8282828]

@@keithammleter3824 i must insist that is not true

[@paulsengupta971]

Both the Shackleton and Fairey Gannet used contra-rotating props.

[@flyonbyya]

Remarkable Aircraft… Remarkable vid Presentation !!

[@gordongott127]

Absolutely a beast what a amazing aircraft still. Thank you for your videos .. I enjoy all of them..

[@xmanhoe]

😯 Ohh I've just peed my shorts 😬🤣 Cheers for this one Paul 😉 I have a soft spot for these bad boys

[@dvmurkus]

Though I have already read about this plane before, today I have learned more, especially about propellers and the crew cabin. Thank you!

[@peterandkyleemingham3923]

Always love your videos Paul

[@arronjones6985]

Absolutely loved this 👍

[@cupidstunt22]

Fantastic stuff!

[@koh_ling]

Great tour Paul! Really interesting.

[@rob737700]

Another great video, thank you.

[@markwng]

Quite a display. Soviet era development was surely diverse.

[@eefregelneef2956]

Thanks Paul. Nice vid.😊

[@applejacks971]

Awesome video and information, thanks for sharing with us! Getting to watch a new Paul Stewart video is the perfect beginning to any weekend :)

[@DropBear69]

Thank you Paul. Awesome video once again. I learn something new from every one of your vids. Looking forward to your next drop. Cheers.

[@nathensieben]

Awesome tour mate, always been amazed by these big buggers, would love to see one up close.

[@heathertruskinger6214]

I love your comment " unique interpretation of the owners manual ! 😂 LoL A real " muscle man " of the skies Thanks Paul 😊

[@HAL-xy3om]

Good show thanks

[@katimboallan4605]

Very nice video

[@petr-podrouzek]

Fantastic job as always, Paul 🙂

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Thanks Petr

[@marknagle1912]

Nice to see you in the antonov in sinsheim had fun whilst climbing in it

[@jirihamersky6152]

Nice and interesting video. Thanks.

[@sergei6572]

Отличный обзор! Спасибо, Пауль!

[@richierich2534]

Another great video

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Bad_Karma1968]

Playing catch up informative Paul

[@PaulStewartAviation]

haha thanks Ted. Yes I've been releasing quite a few videos over the last few months :)

[@anjinsanx44]

Well done the keep it up

[@RodCurrin]

I didn't get an idea of just how big it is until around 4:50 when my brain was confused by the chopper that looked too small to be between the AN-22 and the camera!

[@Hughes500]

I really liked that video. Soviet aircraft are so tough and agricultural. I mean that thing just looked so solid. Amazing that they could change the tyre pressures in flight. I imagine the navigator would be a very lonely job :(

[@leofriedwald9901]

Dihedral increases stability, Anhedral reduces it. That bit of Anhedral you mention @5:40 probably goes away during flight when the wing is generating lift and flexes up.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

I'm happy to stand corrected but my understanding was that anhedral increases stability in side-wind conditions. I recall watching a video where Kelly Johnson explained the wing on the SR-71

[@tsegulin]

Great video, thanks! Always liked this aircraft but never seen inside it. Soviet or not, Antonov created some exceptional large cargo aircraft.

[@damienwilloughby]

COOL 😎

[@Travelsbydreamer]

Great overview! She’s a big girl for sure 😃

[@user-tn1vc1xz5d]

Large Soviet turboprops....not known for being quiet inside. Always liked the Tu-114 with its massive props but few on display and those are in countries not easy to access at the moment. To minimise "beating" sound effects, large prop aircraft can allow synchronising of engines against a reference engine, say no.1, fine controlling of rpm of the other 3 so they all match and thus reducing harmonics and noise on cruise.

[@ronjon7942]

That’s pretty cool, I wonder if that’s a common thing amongst all multi engined props. Ah, after re-reading your post, it appears so. I do remember flying with my boss in his Cessna 340, and the dissonance when they were out of sync was really annoying and it even felt my balance was off - I believe I’d have gotten nauseous, or at least very fatigued, if the entire flight was thusly. As powerful a light twin as the 340 is, there wasn’t anything used to synchronize the props - it was done by manually adjusting the prop pitch until the harmonics matched. After all, the 520 cubic inch, 310 hp piston engines were a tad smaller than the Antaeus’ four 15,000 shp (each! Eeks) NK-12s.

[@SnappyWasHere]

I hope you did a video on that helicopter as well!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Afraid not. I ran out of time and the gopro was playing up. Putting everything up on those poles also makes it difficult to film.

[@matty99]

Great videos Paul, I really enjoy your content. I’ve been trying to think who your smile reminds me of and I’ve worked it out. Wallace from Wallace and Gromit, please tell me you love cheese 🧀 😉

[@Thanhnganaviation]

hello paul why the il 96 , b747-8i, b717 , md 90 , md 11 , a340-200/300/500 was not in the museum

[@SaturnCanuck]

Wait! A giant Russian transport aircraft? That never happens. Man, did they ever built some big aircraft then, including the world’s largest helicopter. This thing is big! I have been fortunate enough to see and tour an Antonov An-124 and that is massive! Next to her was a C-5, and it was interesting to see the analog gauges of the An-124 opposing the digital C-5’s! Nice Paul. Oh and did I see a Guppy at the beginning? Dude I HAVE to see that!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Yep Gubby was at Toulouse and a video coming for that soon…

[@SaturnCanuck]

@@PaulStewartAviation Always loved the guppy.

[@gglasser8375]

Hi Paul, love your vids! I'm really curious about whatever it is in your shot during the intro at 19 secs. Seems to be a giant cockpit with no wings? Can you let me know what it is so I can look it up. If you have done a vid on it, I'd be very interested to watch! Thanks

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Super Guppy in Toulouse. A video is coming on that in coming months :)

[@edward9]

Hi Paul. Great videos! Is your accent Kiwi?

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Aussie

[@edward9]

@@PaulStewartAviation thanks 👍🏼

[@lolsomeyoutuber.1425]

coincidence or not, the AN-22 is the largest turbo prop and the AN-225 is the largest plane

[@E_Legal_Alien]

Was*

[@lolsomeyoutuber.1425]

@@E_Legal_Alien ):

[@workaholica]

And the AN-2 is the largest single engine biplane. There is a pattern emerging ;)

[@lolsomeyoutuber.1425]

@@workaholica hmm

[@simkahop8519]

Crushed yet, unforunately, SO there is 2-nd scelet, never Ever been finished, but may BE will be rebuild 2-nd time, anyway China bought all the plans, So we will SEE, but AN 225 destroyed/does NOT exist any more - sorry. :(

[@davidbarnsley8486]

I was in a Russian plane many years ago and don’t you just love the colour scheme Green and blue All there planes are the same I would to know why the dashboards are green when we paint everything black Good one Paul 👍👍

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Thanks David. I mention the cockpit green in my Tu-144 video :)

[@ronjon7942]

Russian cargo aircraft look so….military. With a touch of Klingon. Meant as a compliment, btw. As with the Bear, the engines of the An-22 look so spindly next to the fuselage, throwing me off on the actual size of the airframe. Paul’s video did a nice job providing size context, and of course they’re ginormous, but like the C-5, B-52, 747, I’m still awestruck seeing large planes in person - I hope to see the An-22. Actually, I may have, but from a distance - I couldn’t see if the engines were turboprops, or turbofans and that it was an An-124. Anyway, they delivered the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Calatrava structural steel ‘wings’ or ‘sail’ from Europe (sorry, can’t remember the country; maybe Spain or France) to MKE Mitchell Field. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Art_Museum Aviation fans will admire the beauty of the architecture. With a few exceptions, I always thought the building was far better than the art. In fact, whenever I did go visit it, I never new what was ‘playing’ as I only went to admire the construction - especially after some insulting garbage by some student far left liberals…handicrafter hobbyists trying to make a statement about the establishment. Typical trash that had no business being in such a stunning piece of actual artwork. Oh my! Guess I had some pent up annoyance! Apologies! Paul, please carry on. 🫡

[@FSXNOOB]

Way bigger then i was used to in flight sim.. 😶

[@willmo1725]

Cool look inside and out. Have you done a episode on the A400 it was at the airshow in chesterfield , missouri but no tours inside. I guess boeing couldnt stand the competition..

[@PaulStewartAviation]

I haven't been inside an a400 I'm afraid.

[@willmo1725]

@@PaulStewartAviation i bring it up, because i think it is the largest nato turbo prop. Also damn good looking airbus product. Love your u tube show., keep it coming.

[@ronjon7942]

@@willmo1725 wow, I just wrote the Atlas off as Europe’s Hercules, never realizing how much larger than the C-130 it was!

[@divox9pqr]

Was there a jet engine version of this plane?

[@PaulStewartAviation]

No

[@user-vu6zx2pu1g]

Это первый Ан 22 построенный в Ташкенте

[@userhessenone1469]

That's 01-03, it's a prototype, yes, but not the first one which was 01-01.

[@judefernandez827]

Is this a real size model because the wings snd engines look small

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Nope, it’s just a really big plane :)

[@userhessenone1469]

That's serial number 01-03, so that's one of the prototypes

[@jkkshhhab]

8:00 😂

[@anjaliraychoudhury7253]

AY GORU EYAT KI HOKISO ,MAY KIR USOROT JA

[@marcel-rudimantaj4773]

i know the owner of this and its sister museum in sinsheim

[@userhessenone1469]

there is no owner. its owned by an Association

[@malcolm824]

I think you mean the Tu-114 was the fastest turboprop airliner ever, not the 144

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Yep my mistake

[@charlestaylor253]

Soviet Air Force officer: "Comrade pilots, the AN-22 with nuclear reactor aboard will let it fly more than 27,500 kilometers!" Soviet pilot: "Comrade officer, what if nuclear reactor starts leaking in flight?"... "Then comrades, you fly into NATO country and you all become Heroes Of Soviet Motherland!...😏

[@paulsengupta971]

It was more, "We throw it out of the aeroplane and it becomes someone else's problem."

[@sanek7015]

👍👍👍

[@gate7clamp]

It wouldn’t be Russian aerospace technology if it didn’t have titanium in it

[@judefernandez827]

Has the AN 22 ever visited Australia?

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Good question. I've seen an An-12 in Perth before, and the 124 up in Darwin.

[@judefernandez827]

@@PaulStewartAviation I've seen a lot of An 32s and IL 76 when I lived in India near an Air Force Station

[@tarnejehovahson2148]

Why is it with Russian aircraft they need 6 people in the cockpit I mean at most a captain first officer & engineer What was was the need for 6 pilots plus a navigator??

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Someone has to pour the booze?

[@r3ndszergazda]

I believe it’s pronounced “A.N. - 22” and not “AN-22”

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Fair enough, Ive seen it pronounced differently in various sources :)

[@didgerihorn]

3:50 Didn't know the supersonic TU-144 was a turboprop 😎

[@badgerello]

We know he meant the tu-114.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Ops 😂😂

[@Noah_The_Magician]

Early ❤🎉

[@KNMK259]

First...........

[@TransportCats]

Bit late my friend

[@lejviator]

Will we ever see the sole active civil one again... after being damaged in the war ...😭😭😭😭😭

[@nikerailfanningttm9046]

My son was adopted from Russia and I’m proud of his heritage. It’s a shame today that the president had to be such a dick and start a fucking war.

[@lsdzheeusi]

No toilet? Lol

[@userhessenone1469]

Im pretty sure the serial models have one. But this testbed (01-03, third one built) hasn’t 😊

[@johno9507]

Ukraine may be the poorest country in Europe but they have some of the best aero engineers around. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 🇦🇺

[@zorilaz]

Lol not even that. This company was founded in Russia .

[@johno9507]

@@zorilaz Hasn't been in Russia since 1952. Now the only thing worthwhile to come out of Novosibirsk is Garage54.

[@zorilaz]

@@johno9507 USSR company not Ukrainian

[@johno9507]

@@zorilaz Well considering Antonov moved to Ukraine in 1952 and the USSR has been dead since 1991, and it's owned by the Ukraine government...I'd say that makes it a Ukrainian company

[@zorilaz]

@@johno9507 neah . Ukraine uses what USSR left . No wonder they are the poorest country in Europe

[@TransportCats]

First!

[@ItsKing32]

The nato reporting name is what now 🤨🤨

[@petethebastard]

If it's Soviet Air... it's wow/Great! Gret vids as always Paul Stewart! How is the band going?! Painters and Dockers....

[@robertcoleman4861]

👍👍👍👍👍🍺