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over 2047 airplanes!

Copyright 1999, Pavel Hvatkin.

This is FREEWARE. These files are strictly for your own personal, non-commercial 
use and the redistribution, repackaging or reselling of these files in any form is 
expressly prohibited without my written permission.

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Sorry, my English is very bad….

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History.

Development Àí-24 began in 1956 s, first experienced plane is raised for the first 
time in the air 20 Octobers 1959 (test pilot G. I. Lysenko); usage of plane on 
passenger lines began in the October 1962, and soon it become one of the most wide-
spread planes Aeroflot. Production in series in USSR is terminated in 1978 s after the 
issue near 11000 planes, but lasts (as from 1982) in the China under marking Y-7.

Plane Àí-24 occupied a first place on the export amongst passenger planes of Soviet 
Union. Resource Àí-24 is carried to 50 000 flight hours, or 35 000 flights - most 
big factor in USSR.
 
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Installation.
Copy all files into a file structure as present in the zip file.
Example:
..\model	*.mdl, model.cfg
..\panel	       panel.cfg
..\sound     	       sound.cfg
..\texture	*.0af..9af

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DATA:
Type: turboprop short-haul commuter airliner.
Powerplant: 2 x turboprops engines AI-24 KB "Progress" (1876 kW, 2550 h.p.).
Crew: 3-5

Wing span:             29,20 m
Lenght:                23.53 m
Height:                 8,32 m
wing area:              72.5 m2

empty:                 13820 kg
max payload:            4700 kg
max fuel:              3950  kg

max level speed:         490 km/h (265 kts)
normal cruise:       450-475 km/h (243-256  kts)

service ceiling:   6000-8000 m

T.O. speed:	     170-180 km/h (92-97 kts)
Landing speed:	         170 km/h (92 kts)
 
T.O.-run:            550-600 m
Landing run:             550 m

range:                 2.280 km (1240 nm) with max fuel and payload of 2400 kg.
                         750 km with max payload of 4700 kg.

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I have very big thanks to Andrey Platonov and Bogdan Lyashko for info about real 
An-24 plane.

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Have fun.

July 30, 1999
Pavel Hvatkin
Lugansk, Ukraine
hvatkin@yahoo.com
2:4615/63.10@FIDOnet.org