It was the world's only four-passenger airplane capable of operating even in vneaerodromnyh conditions. In the early 60's, for example, made experiments on the delivery of fresh fruit from farms, Kiev region, where the An-10 was getting into neposredvtvennoy vicinity of the plantations.Antonov An-10 is radically different from established already by the time the concept of a passenger plane, namely, was vysokoplanom the fuselage of a large diameter. He also was not identical to the traditional military-technical cooperation with the appropriate form of the rear fuselage.Because of this, as well as marasmic aft gun mount, the AN-12 suffered serious damage to the aerodynamic qualities and other unpleasant features. IL-18 was designed with considerable caution in Bristol UK, and An-10 was completely original.
The fuselage of his, despite the lower elongation, had much less resistance, and vysokoplana scheme gave significantly less resistance to interference, and higher critical Mach number being equal.Mutual Defense and accommodation wing provides minimization of the balancing resistance, and the range of CG was just huge. Cruising mode corresponded naivygodneyshemu.Ispytaniya showed the possibility of horizontal flight with one engine out of four with a maximum flight weight, write a lot about it.Moreover, this was not achieved at the expense of fuel economy, on the contrary, the AN-10 was substantially more effective than IL-18.Maksimalnoe Mach number cruise is not limited by engine thrust, but the beginning of high-speed baftinga. Speed record on a closed route, delivered at the An-10 was 730km / h. And it's a plane with screws and straight wings!