Antonov An-2 variations

[Leading Observer]

Stumbled across this today:
https://www.antonov.com/media/airplanes/airplane-modification-1-1100.jpg
https://ruslet.webnode.cz/_files/system_preview_detail_200012252-a5154a60ed/An-2F_05.jpg
And even stranger this:
https://i.redd.it/omytkv8a0x931.jpg
https://modelist-konstruktor.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1-124.jpg
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[Weaver]

Oh right on cue...

Posted on Twitter by Echoes In The Sky here: https://twitter.com/exoticaviation/status/1435994667217215488?s=20

The Lala-1 was a converted Polish-built An-2, used as a test-bed for the legendary/notorious PZL M-15 Belphegor jet-powered crop sprayer.
The rear fuselage was replaced with a skeletal tail boom and an AI-25 turbofan (L-39 Albatross engine) was added in the back of the cabin.

Wouldn't it look great in a Mad Max movie?

Bad Guy: "Ha! We'll soon catch that lumbering biplane!"

Lala pilot: "Surpriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiise! Engage the jet engine!"

Bad Guy: "What the F...!!!"

[Dizzyfugu]

The first one with the "glass belly" was an army observation prototype with the internal designation "Izdeliye K", from 1948.
The other one is a ground effect test aircraft (called An-2E, for "Ekranoplan" IIRC) from the Seventies.

Personally, I like the turboprop updates a lot, like these here:

[ericr]

 

[Gondor]

Personally, I like the turboprop updates a lot, like these here:

Is that an An-2 though as there is hardly anything left of the original 

Gondor

[Flyer]

Personally, I like the turboprop updates a lot, like these here:

Is that an An-2 though as there is hardly anything left of the original 

Gondor

Don't think it is, read something about it a while ago, IIRC it has complete composite construction and was designed to be a direct An-2 replacement...