It's not the DCH-6 Twin Otters, it's all in Botswana, and the production is too small, the price is high, and it's too cumbersome to maintain compared to the one in front of you. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Since ordering a batch of "double otters" last year, both Thomas and Davis have found it convenient to use them, but if they are in backward southern Africa, they are still difficult and expensive to maintain.

So what to do?

There is a way!

The wings are single-engined, the appearance is primitive and simple, and it looks like a twin with the common domestic Yun 5.

Zhang Nan's Mi-26 placed an order, and he directly asked the Soviets to buy a batch of super practical and durable antiques - An-2, a super flying tractor!

Newly built old airplanes, it works!

Why don't you choose 5?

It's not that I don't take care of Huaxia, but there is no way, whoever makes this will transport 5 production like that, and I have to wait for a few pluses.

After waiting for this to come and go, Zhang Nan felt that it was better to wait another year or two to buy a large-voyage Yun-5B.

An-2 is good, it is simply a flying tractor, which can take off and land in a flat field, with a full load take-off and running distance of less than 180 meters, and the landing can be done by more than 150 meters.

Although the flight speed is not fast, it will hardly stall, and when the speed is less than 90 km/h, if the oncoming wind blows a little harder, it can fly backwards!

Because the take-off distance is still very short, if it is not a full load to take off, dozens of meters of river beach will do. And the price is cheap and sufficient, so far tens of thousands of units have been produced, and it is no more troublesome to repair than large tractors.

Except for being louder, flying slower, and lower, there are really no other drawbacks.

The maximum level flight speed is only 256 km/h, and the cruising speed is 160 km/h, which doesn't matter, we are not in a hurry.

The structure is so simple that it can't be simpler, in fact, it is just a few pipes, skin, and a star-shaped piston engine with an old-fashioned but durable design, and that's pretty much it.

The climb rate of more than 2 meters per second is also acceptable, and the practical ceiling of 4500 meters is also acceptable, and we will not fly to Kilimanjaro.

It is said that the range is only 845 kilometers, in fact, the endurance time is 6 hours and 10 minutes when fully loaded, even if there is a headwind halfway, it is not a big problem to fly 950 kilometers.

If you're flying here from a mine in Botswana, you'll have another 50 litres of fuel in the cabin for insurance, which is 100% enough.

And its low-altitude performance is excellent, it can fly at a super low altitude of 5 meters, and the operation and maintenance are outrageously simple, because there is really nothing to repair, and the guy who can repair the tractor can basically get it in two weeks of training.

The carrying capacity is also good, it can be used as a transport aircraft to carry one and a half tons of cargo or more than ten passengers, and it can also sow seeds, kill insects, fertilize, and weed.... There are more than 40 kinds of uses that have been conceived by people's brains.

It can be used on the water with a pontoon, and it can take off in the snow with a sled - in a word, it is a kind of all-purpose aircraft!

What is this An-2 doing now?

I flew 500 kilometers back and forth to help the boss go to the coast of Mozambique to transport the freshest seafood!

Eating seafood on the highlands of Zimbabwe is not a loser, and whoever makes the transportation cost of An-2 low enough, the price of seafood in Mozambique is also cheap.

Zhang Nan likes to eat everything in the shell, including crabs, prawns, shellfish, peanuts, and cinnamon....

In Zimbabwe and Botswana, you generally can't eat seafood, a few days ago I ate too much beef and got angry, even Xiao Lili complained to Zhang Nan yesterday, extremely depressed and worried: "Uncle Allen, I have beans on my face, it's not beautiful, what do you say?...

This is the internal heat, come to some seafood spice to adjust the appetite.

When the plane came to a standstill, the cargo door opened, and the workers on the side surrounded it, and boxes of refrigerated seafood were moved down.

Little Lily was on the side, clamoring to open the box and take a look, but after the request was satisfied, her mouth was about to come down!

African seafood is a specialty, except for the clams and Mozambican blue crabs that are still spraying out, everything else is dead.

However, because there are small fishing boats, they are caught and refrigerated with ice, packed and transported by car to a nearby rudimentary airport.

After this lap, the seafood is still quite fresh.

The little guy pointed to a box of super large shrimp and shouted, "I want to eat this, I want to eat the prawns!"

Zhang Nan saw that there were several large boxes of Mozambican purple shrimp almost a foot long, and the meat was said to be much more tender than lobster.

"This Nicole can't eat too much, she'll grow beanie. ”

I remember that shrimp is a hot food, I don't know if I am mistaken.

Lily was not happy, compared the size of the super large prawns in the box, and said, "Then I'll eat one, okay?"

Zhang Nan's eyes were white on purpose: "Can you eat two?"

Well, one has at least half a catty, even if it is counted by shelling, Xiao Lily may really laugh bad if she eats two.

Not only shrimp, but also 20 catties of grouper, two or three catties of blue crabs, as well as a large number of sea bream and tilapia, is what China often calls African crucian carp.

The chefs in the mine are also from Huaxia, and they can also cook some steak and deal with these seafood trivialities - they all went to the police station for a period of time to train.

Lily asked Alice to accompany her to the kitchen to see the strangeness, where the living facilities left by the original farmer were still there, and the construction team stepped up the construction of a number of barracks.

Zhang Nan lives in a villa-style farmstead, but the kitchen is useless, and he eats in the big canteen. Today, everyone in the whole mine eats a seafood feast - for seafood, whether it is Chinese or Western, as long as it is not creamed, everyone is used to eating it.

And Zhang Nan saw that it was still early, and drove two open-top off-road vehicles to hunt with Boss Guan and Alyosha.

Rest assured, this was originally a farm, and there were no too large wild animals within a radius of a few hundred kilometers - the farm near the east that had not yet been purchased was sometimes infested by African wild boars, but further south, there were no large animals in thousands of square kilometers, because even antelopes were rare because of the developed farming.

There are quite a few nasty African hares, and the former farmers used all kinds of methods to deal with such long-eared creatures, and even poisoned them two or three times a year.

Zhang Nan, with a gun.

Guan Xingquan and Alyosha carried their most familiar weapon, the 56 Chong, a Chinese-made assault rifle that is common in Zimbabwe and neighboring Mozambique, and no one cared about you when they walked down the street a few years ago.

You can't use an assault rifle to fight rabbits, Zhang Nan has a very ugly semi-automatic small-caliber rifle next to his leg, Jianwei 10.

Where did it come from?

Left by the farmer, bought in the store in Umtali two years ago.