Antonov An-148 Rollout

concordino · Post by **concordino** » 18 Oct 2004, 11:37

The latest Antonov pictured on its Official rollout 15th October, in Kiev (just uploaded to Skyliner)

http://www.skyliner-aviation.de/viewpho ... picid=1436

Concordino

Post by **luchtzak** » 18 Oct 2004, 12:08

Nice! Anyone has got some technical specifications on this type? (how many passengers, range, etc...)

AN124 · Post by **AN124** » 18 Oct 2004, 12:25

Great news from Antonov again.
The plane is looking very good. They already sold the first 30 aircraft according to this article: http://www.flightdailynews.com/farnboro ... an148.shtm

The plane has space for 80 pax and a range of 5100 km.

Best Regards,
Yvo

Post by **sn26567** » 18 Oct 2004, 13:08

Surprising shape, but I'm sure it will be a great aircraft.

About the first customers (Aerosvit, Krasair and Pulkovo), where will they fly this aircraft?

concordino · Post by **concordino** » 18 Oct 2004, 13:20

Having looked again at the picture, I find it most amusing to see the attention to detail (not).

The aircraft looks like it has been pulled through the curtains in the smoke - very effective, just slightly spoiled by the 2 buckets left by the smoke generator, captured on film for all to enjoy.

Concordino

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 18 Oct 2004, 13:26

Nice plane. Let's hope it to have a nice future.

Chris

Andries · Post by **Andries** » 18 Oct 2004, 13:34

I am stunned with amazement ...

I REALLY like it !!!

Greetz,

Andries

AN124 · Post by **AN124** » 18 Oct 2004, 15:59

More pictures can be found at the following link:
http://aleksassa.fotoplenka.ru/album31723/page1.htm

Best Regards,
Yvo

regi · Post by **regi** » 18 Oct 2004, 16:37

It looks a bit like a BAE, and Dornier.
BAE ceased production of its regional airliner. And no replacement was made. The result is now that these high value products are made in a low cost country.
After the disappearance of Fokker, this gap is filled by Embraer , also from a low cost country, and this Russian joint venture.
I wonder how long it will take untill we see Chinese made jets sold over here in Europe.

waldova · Post by **waldova** » 18 Oct 2004, 17:00

What a nice plane. I hope to see it soon in Brussels but I doubt it.

Post by **sn26567** » 18 Oct 2004, 17:22

AN124 wrote:More pictures can be found at the following link:
http://aleksassa.fotoplenka.ru/album31723/page1.htm

Thanks for the link, Yvo.

As regi also stated, I think it was a serious mistake for BAe to stop the production of the Avro. The An-148 might well replace it in the future, if the economics are good.

Vonsmalhausen · Post by **Vonsmalhausen** » 18 Oct 2004, 17:42

looks very mutch like the Avro indeed

(except for having 2 engines instead of 4)
who knows, maybe SN could get interested when they replace they're Avro's

beaucaire · Post by **beaucaire** » 18 Oct 2004, 19:33

You don't render justice to ukrainian (Antonov in Kiev )and russian engineering capabilities . If TU -144 was a desaster ( the french could tell you all a story about fake plans conveyed into the hands of russian spies ...), their capacity to build excellent flying machines is in nobody's doubt...
If it weren't the politics ,number of european airlines would consider buying ukrainian/russian aircraft - but nobody here really gives them a chance!

AN124 · Post by **AN124** » 18 Oct 2004, 19:41

In my personal opinion this plane could be one breakthrough again for the Russian aviation as Airbus was/is in talks with Antonov to co-orperate in the AN148.
See also this topic: https://www.aviation24.be/postlite5117-an148.html

@ jan_olieslagers
AN24 --> F27

But it can also be the other way around, have a look to the AN124 and the C5.
If I'm not mistaking the AN124 was there before the Galaxy. But please correct me if I'm wrong.

@ beaucaire

I have to agree with you. There are always European airlines interested in the Russian aircraft. Have a look to TNT for example, they are operating the TU204 and are very statisfied with it.

Another good example is Atlantic from the UK which is operating an AN74.

Best Regards,
Yvo

AN124 · Post by **AN124** » 18 Oct 2004, 19:45

And here are even some more shots of this very very good looking aircraft:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/694201/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/694200/L

I think it's only a matter of time before we see the first picture of a flying AN148.

Best Regards,
Yvo

B744skipper · Post by **B744skipper** » 18 Oct 2004, 21:34

Wow, that aircraft looks really good. I hope that we will see many of this type in the skie.

I would like to have it as a private jet on European destination.

Has anyone a fix on the price of this aircraft?

Lyulka · Post by **Lyulka** » 18 Oct 2004, 22:17

I just want to comment on all those speculations of Russians copying Western planes. Most of them do have similarities, but how come?
If they would have asked you years ago to draw a picture of a (purely fictive at that moment) airplane, capable of transporting outsized cargo, how do you think it would have looked like? I'm rather sure it would have looked quite similar to a Galaxy or an An-124. The same when talking about the Tu-144.
It's not when aircraft look the same from the inside, that they are the same from the outside. Take for example the Il-62. From the outside it does look like a VC-10, but the same story as with the cargo one: draw an jet aircraft which can fly from unprepared dust strips, and which has an equivalent range. WIth the technology available at that time, you where only able to make an aircraft of that configuration! When you take a look at the structure of the aircraft on the other hand, you will se that they're developed with different goals in mind. And the fact that it seems like they all get on display at about the same time can also be appointed to luck for a big part.
At the moments those planes where developed, both sides of the world (communist - capitalist) had a conflict in which prestige played a big part. Both wanted to be first to move the limits, and they needed both the same transport capabilities. So perhaps this can be the cause of the timing.

This does not mean that some of these project haven't got similarities. But we must not forget that those Soviet engineers still had to make their own plane, with their own specifications, and their own knowledge and materials.

an-148 · Post by **an-148** » 08 Jan 2005, 18:02

First flight:
see: http://www.antonov.com/news/index.xml;j ... MRZll-h-Rg