АН-72 виконує повітряний маневр “бочка“/ AN-72 performing aerial maneuvers “barrel roll“

On August 31, 1977 the AN-72 first takeoff from Svyatoshin airfield, Kiev. 31 серпня 1977 р. відбувся перший зліт Ан-72 з аеродрому Святошин, Київ. The AN-72 is a STOL light military-transport jet. It was designed with engines located under a wing to use such called “Coanda effect” that is increase of the lift due to “adhesion” of the exhaust stream to the wing surface. It differs with a highly mechanized wing having a straight wing center section and tapered outer wing panels with a straight trailing edg