Antonov America and Other Aerial Ambitions

[Gary Oswald]

Discuss this article by @Coiler here

 

[Arthur_Phuxache]

Excellent. Very interesting.

 

[Coiler]

One of the many great things about the Secret Projects: Airlifters series was that it showed that the previous air refueler programs were also slow messes.

 

[Hendryk]

A variant of the existing Antonov An-70 transport, its most noticeable change on the outside was replacing the four propellers with two jets.

Did it have the same issues as the Airbus A400M, whose turboprops cause turbulences that make aerial refueling unfeasible?

 

[Thande]

a suspiciously small American firm called U.S Aerospace (to provide a domestic factory for legal/political reasons, presumably)

That is the most obviously "made up on the spur of the moment" shell company name I've seen for a while.