I love ❤️ the sounds of them round engines it was my passion too be a crop duster and I finally got too do it for 3 year with my little Pawnee. Did get too flying a Stearm ones open cock pit 🥶.
2000 liters capacity in the hopper. Cockpit cage stressed to about 20 Gs. Ag pilots the world over are the best. My first real job was loading ag chemicals and fueling a Rockwell Thrush Commander. Nothing like those old radial engined beasts. Don’t see many with radials anymore-turboprops have largely replaced them. The bird I serviced had a 600 hp radial from a T-6 trainer.
My condolences for your loss he was doing what he loved im sure not many people get to go doing something they love keep the faith you'll see him again God bless
I started firebombing in radial Droms. Now turbine Garrett powered, the performance is up but the character of the piston radial is gone. Excellent machine for ag work too and I enjoyed that too. Every radial start was like waking a living beast. A bit heavy on the controls and very trim sensitive but overall, a wonderful experience and a good safe workhorse. Much respect for Eastern Block aircraft. Tough as nails.
My cousin had a flying service in Arkansas and had several Of these planes. I flagged many hours under Ag Cats, Ah Tractors, etc. nothing like the roar of a radial engine passing over.
Beloved, look at this engine :) The Dromader has an ASz-62IR engine, modeled after the war on the Wright R-1820! So we hear planes like Dauntless, Wildcat, yeah! :)
A few years ago I operated into a small Greek airport and met a military pilot who flew these awesome aircraft, he gave me a tour of one of them and let me photograph them
A real beast of an airplane! My brother-in-law owned and operated a Dromader in south Texas for a few years back in the 1980s. It made his Ag Cats look kinda puny by comparison! 😄
Good for that old man. I am seventy and he looks old enough to be my twin brother. Nice video of him doing what he has been around doing for most likely a lot of years and quite possibly in that same plane. Showing him doing flyby after flyby at 300-400+ feet on the same run over the airfield turning his sprayers on and off was a nice little tribute. The marvel of it all is that he is still around and still climbing in the cockpit and flying around. Only in Serbia maybe. He nor the plane could probably pass on an annual while insurance and the paperwork to operate would be impossible to obtain in a place like the U.S.
My Dad and I had 5 round engines and the planes are some of the toughest on the market. Great flying real forgiving for mistakes. Converted 2 over to turbines would not recommend let the factory build them to beef up wing attach fittings, but overall just a great airplane.
Well there are still certain number of this version with radial engine. This is Russian type, same is at Antonov-2 But there are more turbo propeller versions. You can recognize them by a very long nose, as this type of engine is much lighter, so in order to keep the center of gravity you must move lighter engine more forward. Otherwise construction of wings and fuselage is unchanged.
Kao dete me je otac vodio na aerodrome tu sam i zavoleo avijaciju a naročito M-18 u kojem me je otac i vozio strašna mašina leteo je i u pustinji Alžira krajem 80ih imam fotografije koje je stari fotografisao na letu preko Italije , do Afrike zaista neverovatan avion!!!
@@JarekOd Not clearly. Dromader has a lot of parts of Thrush, but new fuselage, central part of the wing, more powerful engine (Thrush had only 600hp)... Besides the remaining parts had to be redesigned to use metric system, I guess.
This is same radial engine and the same propeller AW-2 as Antonov An-2, Ash Schwezow Ash 62IR 1000hp 735kw 30l displacement 9cyl. started with an inertia starter, but by the Antonov An-2 is the engine covered.
Who likes the placement of the fiberglass tank directly aft of the engine and 'fore of the pilot. Maybe a secondary containment tank in case of terrain?
I understand that the Wright R-1820 was license built in USSR. Used in a number of aircraft like the AN-2, the B17, early DC3. Looks alot like the Wright R-1820.
Yeah, I use to own a car that sounded like that when idling. Turns out the muffler had holes in it and the ol' 307 was worn out. I fixed it with a new exhaust system and a freshly rebuilt 396.
The Americans put a P&W PT-6 turboprop on it, then added bomb racks.The Canadians took off the bomb racks ands made into a fire fighting aircraft with floats.
It had weird handling issues. Like if you were heavy and tried to make a turn it felt like it wanted to roll over on its back. You had to use full flaps in the turns.
@@vumba1331 you’re welcome. I think that the issue was that as the hopper filled, it pushed the C/G aft. Because it was so deep, it had more of an effect than say an Air Tractor. The forward part of the hopper was pretty straight up and down. The aft portion sloped aft so the fuller it got, the further aft the C/G went. It was a weird sensation. I finally had to contact someone with a lot of experience in the airplane to find out how to turn it when it was full. Without full flaps you were pretty cross controlled. With full flaps (20 degrees) it was no problem at all. The flaps were operated electrically and actuated hydraulically. The switch was under your left thumb on the throttle lever. Once you were used to it, it worked quite well. Pull up off the field and start your turn while simultaneously going to full flaps. As you’re rolling back in on your next run, dump the flaps and move your hand to the spray handle.
@@mdbryan9525 Nothing like experience before getting into the business, you would be quite busy during a run to get it right! Om low wing aircraft lowering the flaps tends to lift the tail and drop the nose, it does on my microlight, so perhaps when you drop the flaps it moves the centre of gravity/balance forward making the aircraft more stable. Having an aft C of G is not a nice way to fly. So, does the aircraft pitch nose down when the flaps are deployed?
Well in the past there was more other type by conception.Biplanes, but many up winger planes like Piper Super Cub served in AG aviation. Low wings is more common today for having better access to the chemical reservoir for instance. And it is placed in center of plane gravity,...
@@jazzforever4631 Isn't visibility more important? I ~thought a high winger had better visibility & that was the reason, but I don't know that what I wrote is correct or not.
Because airframe and undercarriage is much stronger in low wing planes. And low wing planes are better in tight and sharp maneouvres because of higher center of gravity. Visibility, thanks to very high canopy position and sloppy nose of plane also good.
@@cluelessbeekeeping1322 Hmmm, I was trained to be AG pilot and served some years. So visiability is life saving fact. All modern AG planes have cockpit high as possible (Thursh, Air Tractor, Airtruck where this fact changed the whole aerodynamical conception of the plane,...). Just to mention, todays AG planes are made around the chemical/water reservoir. Another life savig role of putting cockpit higher as possible is question of crash landings. As pilot seat is higher than the engine axis, the chances of survival are higher. Another reason is trend of Turbo-Propeller engines instead of radial piston engines. Nose of turbo-propeller engines due to keeping the same center of plane gravity is much longer. If cockpit is not that high, visiability can be critically bad, even dangerous to fly,.....
@@konradhenrykowicz1859 Yes that fact is also important regarding AG airplanes. There was some PIPER Super Cubs, and Czech Brigadirs with high wings, but that conception is obsolete. Besides many other reasons, filling the cehemical/water reservoir is complicate wihout damaging the wing (flaps,...mostly). The chemical/water reservoir (tank) was in cockpit without any protection of a pilot from toxic chemicals. That was the reason of fatal accidents or serious health problems,....
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I love ❤️ the sounds of them round engines it was my passion too be a crop duster and I finally got too do it for 3 year with my little Pawnee. Did get too flying a Stearm ones open cock pit 🥶.
Kulturysta wśród samolotów - tytan pracy. Pozdrowienia z Polski. POLAND CRACOV !
2000 liters capacity in the hopper. Cockpit cage stressed to about 20 Gs. Ag pilots the world over are the best. My first real job was loading ag chemicals and fueling a Rockwell Thrush Commander. Nothing like those old radial engined beasts. Don’t see many with radials anymore-turboprops have largely replaced them. The bird I serviced had a 600 hp radial from a T-6 trainer.
A well-maintained, good running old workhorse. Kudos to the cameraman.
Thank you!
poljski avion na srpskom nebu, lepo, pozdrav iz Poljske
Nice powefull aiplane, Sadly I lost my brother in plane just like that one, in an accident in Salta Argentina 2016. fighting a forest fire.
Sorry to hear that…
I'm sorry for your loss brother, and I'm grateful for men like your brother who take on such dangerous jobs for us.
My condolences for your loss he was doing what he loved im sure not many people get to go doing something they love keep the faith you'll see him again God bless
Sorry for your loss mate.
Your brother was obviously a very brave man.
Respect and salute.
😢😞🫡🙏🕊️❤🇦🇷💪❤.
I listened to that startup about 50 times. Awesome sounds!
You'll love this one.... th-cam.com/video/Tli5NG4HBsQ/w-d-xo.html
Its an AN-2 Also the same sound the starter on the Mellennium Falcon makes ..hahah
Musical 🎶 🎵 👍🏻
Oh boy! Look at the size of the wing on that puppy!
I started firebombing in radial Droms. Now turbine Garrett powered, the performance is up but the character of the piston radial is gone.
Excellent machine for ag work too and I enjoyed that too. Every radial start was like waking a living beast.
A bit heavy on the controls and very trim sensitive but overall, a wonderful experience and a good safe workhorse.
Much respect for Eastern Block aircraft. Tough as nails.
My cousin had a flying service in Arkansas and had several Of these planes. I flagged many hours under Ag Cats, Ah Tractors, etc. nothing like the roar of a radial engine passing over.
Must have been long ago , cause then came auto flaggers after that GPS took over in AG Aviation.
Bullock?
1st season for me, flying an old Weatherly with an R985. I just love the sound of it warming up early in the morning as the sun comes up.
Love the sound of a PT6 spooling up early in the morning.
Our ag operation still has a weatherly. And an ag truck and a ag wagon. Nothing beats the sound of that old round motor
I have a little over 2100 hours in an M18-A. It was hard to find a place to park when you were on a busy airport. 58 foot wingspan if I remember.
What a workhorse!! Incredible sound!!
Mielec 🇵🇱 Poland👍
Beloved, look at this engine :)
The Dromader has an ASz-62IR engine, modeled after the war on the Wright R-1820!
So we hear planes like Dauntless, Wildcat, yeah! :)
"Modeled after" is a nice way of saying "stolen design" 🤣
One of the best agriculture plane fully made in Poland.Plenty of them was shipped to Canada and USA.
A few years ago I operated into a small Greek airport and met a military pilot who flew these awesome aircraft, he gave me a tour of one of them and let me photograph them
The same engine like AN-2 ...1000hp ...Nice !!!
Beautiful purpose built aircraft.
A real beast of an airplane! My brother-in-law owned and operated a Dromader in south Texas for a few years back in the 1980s. It made his Ag Cats look kinda puny by comparison! 😄
Really beautiful filming of these magnificent aircraft. Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you, i appreciate it!
Good for that old man. I am seventy and he looks old enough to be my twin brother. Nice video of him doing what he has been around doing for most likely a lot of years and quite possibly in that same plane. Showing him doing flyby after flyby at 300-400+ feet on the same run over the airfield turning his sprayers on and off was a nice little tribute.
The marvel of it all is that he is still around and still climbing in the cockpit and flying around. Only in Serbia maybe. He nor the plane could probably pass on an annual while insurance and the paperwork to operate would be impossible to obtain in a place like the U.S.
I grew up around these until we turbine converted all of them around 2010. It brings back a lot of memories
Great camera work. Superb sound. Thanks.
Beautiful polish plane
good polish aviation
My Dad and I had 5 round engines and the planes are some of the toughest on the market. Great flying real forgiving for mistakes. Converted 2 over to turbines would not recommend let the factory build them to beef up wing attach fittings, but overall just a great airplane.
Polski samolot więc pozdrowienia z Polski.
jest to Plolský Zlín (PZL), a także polski Fiat, polski Zetor i tak dalej
@@220volt-u7 Zlin nie polski tylko Czeski a PZL to skrót Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze.
When Poland used to make planes!!!
Cheers Brothers!!!
Nowadays we have a pride parades instead. And gay hotels in Warsaw.
Thank you Beograd!
But don't forget Mielec in Poland, where the plane was created 👍
Looks like a Piper Pawne, but with attitude. Love it!
Nice close-up details...!
Damn that was awesome 🤘😀
Wow! That’s Amazing! It’s wonderful that these aircraft still have such an important role in aviation! :)
Look for other polish constructions like ts-11 pzl-230 skorpion (scorpion) pzl-104 wilga and many many others
Well there are still certain number of this version with radial engine. This is Russian type, same is at Antonov-2 But there are more turbo propeller versions. You can recognize them by a very long nose, as this type of engine is much lighter, so in order to keep the center of gravity you must move lighter engine more forward. Otherwise construction of wings and fuselage is unchanged.
Kao dete me je otac vodio na aerodrome tu sam i zavoleo avijaciju a naročito M-18 u kojem me je otac i vozio strašna mašina leteo je i u pustinji Alžira krajem 80ih imam fotografije koje je stari fotografisao na letu preko Italije , do Afrike zaista neverovatan avion!!!
@Polski Pilot PZL M-18 is not a Polish construction. It's licensed S-2R Thrush Commander.
@@JarekOd Not clearly. Dromader has a lot of parts of Thrush, but new fuselage, central part of the wing, more powerful engine (Thrush had only 600hp)... Besides the remaining parts had to be redesigned to use metric system, I guess.
Dromader rulez!
I remember seeing one on the ramp here in the USA, early 1990's. They are absolutely massive, compared to a Pawnee or an Air Tractor!
What a wonderful sound!
Wow, fantastic video of the great beast ;-))
Dromedar the good old workhorse!😊
Amazing indeed. Thanks for sharing
Fantastic!!
The best plane🤩🤩🤩
master of the skies feeling?
It’s like a tank starting up!
Great plane. Thanks.
Beastly looking beautiful work of sonic and visual art! Is this a musical instrument or is flight its primary purpose?!?
new title: "Handmade Baritone Organ Tuba with aerodynamic properties"
Nice camera work. Color was good. I get a chance to see a lot of ag aviation here in California.
Many thanks for this Video ! 👍
Best regards from Berlin
HaJo
Love those old radials..
Vídeo maravilhoso. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Beautifull...
SORRY I LOVE FLYING MY 502 TURBINE TRACTOR !!!!
M-18 Dromader...The perfect aircraft for those who like to chemtrail on a budget :D
Uf ! Sto dobro pali !
Checked out on a Pezetel Dehavilland Otter today. Shakes like hell, and performs like an animal. Would love to see a Dromader up close.
Ha! Its got the same starter as the Millennium Falcon, and an AN-2
This is same radial engine and the same propeller AW-2 as Antonov An-2, Ash Schwezow Ash 62IR 1000hp 735kw 30l displacement 9cyl. started with an inertia starter, but by the Antonov An-2 is the engine covered.
Love that sound.
Who likes the placement of the fiberglass tank directly aft of the engine and 'fore of the pilot. Maybe a secondary containment tank in case of terrain?
It's still hard to believe that that many moving motor parts change direction at those speeds for hours without flying apart.
i refer to my car engine as a clockwork :D
In Goleniow city in Poland one of the company have about 20 of this
I understand that the Wright R-1820 was license built in USSR. Used in a number of aircraft like the AN-2, the B17, early DC3. Looks alot like the Wright R-1820.
Звук двигателя просто песня 👍
1:47
Nasza lala. Nice!!
Someone has got this engine right on! I believe that it’s a Wright 1820- or something similar to it. Let me know please, great videos.
The engine is Shvetsov ASh-62, quite a beast of an engine with 1000hp
Soooo pretty
Jeeezz...and there was me thinking that the Skyraider was out of service!
Now that was my favorite airplane
Is not it a flying powertiller?
Love it.
This is a sky tractor. If you look hard enough you can see the three pinot hook and pto shaft.
Nope, like it says Dominer , copied after Leland Snow’s crop dust , bought by North American Rockwell becoming Thrush Commander, Then Air Tractor.
Awesome!
My dream is to see some of this utility aircrafts in the next MadMax movie....
Awesome
Is that the rubber bladed fan like the one used aboard Mi24 Hind helos?
Acompanhei a recuperação de um desses .Em 1980,
Trusch comander, ;;Ulisses MECANICO
O sistema de partida usa um volante de inércia?
Honestly looks like something Id rattle up in my shed :)
What minimum power is necessary to rev a four bladed propeller ? What engine it has ?
1000hp
Ash Schwezow Ash 62IR propeller AW-2
Is that an 18 culinder engine ???
Ingenuity in various graceful applications that allow our populations to be fed.
Does anybody know if the radial engine utilized on the Dromader is still in production.
Don't know. There is an engine for sale in my area.
There is a Polish company still making this engine. It has been updated a bit; it now has fuel injection.
Which camera was used recording?
0:19 I thought this footage was from DCS or MSFS2020, but it was real😂
That's the same design plane in the movie beyond the thunderdome! Old crop duster
Have an overwhelming compulsion to want to repaint them strange!
That must be one cautious ag pilot, look how old he is....
Most of ag pilots here are older, with a lot of experience! Thank you for watching
Yeah, I use to own a car that sounded like that when idling. Turns out the muffler had holes in it and the ol' 307 was worn out.
I fixed it with a new exhaust system and a freshly rebuilt 396.
The Americans put a P&W PT-6 turboprop on it, then added bomb racks.The Canadians took off the bomb racks ands made into a fire fighting aircraft with floats.
*hard points
Why it is so gigantic? Its crop duster in the size of P-47
Двигатель до боли знакомый всем кто знает Ан-2. Этот же двигатель стоял на И-16
Нет
Да он видать похож на двигатель АШ-62. и звук такойже и на вид один к одному .
Если самолёт польского производства то точно двигатель Швецова АШ-62.Речи другой не может и быть .
Этот самолёт на рыцаря похож ! Или напоминает рыцаря ! Главное летает !
I may be spoiled but we had one on our airport. Every morning it woke me up just fore sun up.
Poland PZL Mielec
АШ62ИР?
Да!
It had weird handling issues. Like if you were heavy and tried to make a turn it felt like it wanted to roll over on its back. You had to use full flaps in the turns.
Was that when it was fully loaded, top heavy perhaps? What was it like empty?
@@vumba1331 when it was heavy, yes. Light it handled like any other airplane.
@@mdbryan9525 Interesting, so loaded, the tank location influenced the flight characteristics.
Thanks for getting back to me.
@@vumba1331 you’re welcome. I think that the issue was that as the hopper filled, it pushed the C/G aft. Because it was so deep, it had more of an effect than say an Air Tractor. The forward part of the hopper was pretty straight up and down. The aft portion sloped aft so the fuller it got, the further aft the C/G went. It was a weird sensation. I finally had to contact someone with a lot of experience in the airplane to find out how to turn it when it was full. Without full flaps you were pretty cross controlled. With full flaps (20 degrees) it was no problem at all. The flaps were operated electrically and actuated hydraulically. The switch was under your left thumb on the throttle lever. Once you were used to it, it worked quite well. Pull up off the field and start your turn while simultaneously going to full flaps. As you’re rolling back in on your next run, dump the flaps and move your hand to the spray handle.
@@mdbryan9525 Nothing like experience before getting into the business, you would be quite busy during a run to get it right!
Om low wing aircraft lowering the flaps tends to lift the tail and drop the nose, it does on my microlight, so perhaps when you drop the flaps it moves the centre of gravity/balance forward making the aircraft more stable. Having an aft C of G is not a nice way to fly.
So, does the aircraft pitch nose down when the flaps are deployed?
if you are like me and came here for eargasm >> 1:30
Why are crop dusters always low wingers???
Well in the past there was more other type by conception.Biplanes, but many up winger planes like Piper Super Cub served in AG aviation. Low wings is more common today for having better access to the chemical reservoir for instance. And it is placed in center of plane gravity,...
@@jazzforever4631 Isn't visibility more important? I ~thought a high winger had better visibility & that was the reason, but I don't know that what I wrote is correct or not.
Because airframe and undercarriage is much stronger in low wing planes. And low wing planes are better in tight and sharp maneouvres because of higher center of gravity. Visibility, thanks to very high canopy position and sloppy nose of plane also good.
@@cluelessbeekeeping1322 Hmmm, I was trained to be AG pilot and served some years. So visiability is life saving fact. All modern AG planes have cockpit high as possible (Thursh, Air Tractor, Airtruck where this fact changed the whole aerodynamical conception of the plane,...). Just to mention, todays AG planes are made around the chemical/water reservoir. Another life savig role of putting cockpit higher as possible is question of crash landings. As pilot seat is higher than the engine axis, the chances of survival are higher. Another reason is trend of Turbo-Propeller engines instead of radial piston engines. Nose of turbo-propeller engines due to keeping the same center of plane gravity is much longer. If cockpit is not that high, visiability can be critically bad, even dangerous to fly,.....
@@konradhenrykowicz1859 Yes that fact is also important regarding AG airplanes. There was some PIPER Super Cubs, and Czech Brigadirs with high wings, but that conception is obsolete. Besides many other reasons, filling the cehemical/water reservoir is complicate wihout damaging the wing (flaps,...mostly). The chemical/water reservoir (tank) was in cockpit without any protection of a pilot from toxic chemicals. That was the reason of fatal accidents or serious health problems,....
Jako volim ovaj avion jer je tolko MOCAN ZVUK OD MOTORA!! Oh izvini 😅 ali jako mi se svidga avion
Great video, except the cameraman seems to be standing in the mosquito spray as the plane flies over.
Aí tem pressão am imagina se fala que tem moto com esse motor am
💪💪💪💪💪💪👍
Little tuning and will be best bush plane
hmmmm at 4:10 the plane change!