- The world's biggest turboprop and nobody carries more
weight than Antonov Airlines. - Whoa. (upbeat music) - Never, ever thought about the opportunity sitting
on the captain's seat on the Antonov 22. (upbeat music) - Bremen very short runway. (upbeat music) Our aircraft is 47 years old. - We can load ships, helicopters. - This aeroplane goes to Africa. It goes to the airport with very long way. (plane engine roaring) - Finally, the bus is arriving. - Let's see if the bus can drive straight into the fields at large. - Stop. (upbeat music) - Antonov 22 means Antei. Antei is the biggest and the strongest. (speaking in foreign language) (upbeat music) - Hello, my name Captain Volodymyr Mosin. Today on Antonov 22, we'll be able to perform
flight from Leipzig to Bremen. Our flight time will be today 45 minutes and flight level of 200.
That's a nice flight. (upbeat music) (plane engine roaring) (upbeat music) Now we are approximately five minutes before descent to Bremen. Weather is good. (plane engine roaring) (chattering) (upbeat music) (plane engine roaring) (upbeat music) (plane engine roaring) (upbeat music) - Can you see the plane
just landed two minutes, the door open, the guys
go straight to work, every minute counts in
the charter business. It's really quite an impressive. (upbeat music) - My name is Ievgen, and today we are loading
the big luxury bus. And our strong team of 11
people of 11 technician have built the external
ramp in about 10 minutes, so it's quite an easy lot for today. Once the bus comes here, he can easily drive in
inside our aircraft. Then we shut door and go to Leipzig back. (upbeat music) - We arrive to Bremen to
get 20 tonnes of cargo. Normally aircrafts and so well can lend in and take off from this
runway, 2000 metres only, but just only this aircraft
can get cargo of 20 tonnes from this runway. - And I also saw many incredible footage. This aeroplane goes to Africa. It goes to airport with very long way. (plane engine roaring) - [Volodymyr] These are
unpowered runway in Mali. - Uh-uh, in Mali. The Soviet system is like you have radio controller engineer. Everybody do their part. So as a pilot, I will imagine you had less things to do, so it's maybe easier for you, or it's very difficult for you. - It's not difficult, but
it's very old aircraft, 47 years old aircraft, and you have to control it's manually, approximately the whole flight. That's why people says, that skies loves
brave and strong people, and strong people have eat too much. - The sky loves strong people. As strong people love to eat too much. You got muscles to find and 22. You really need all your muscles. - All of it. (upbeat music) - Usually when the plane arrive, the cargo is ready to load in the plane. And today is a little funny, our special shipment hasn't arrived while the plane came early,
it's the other way around. - While we're waiting for
the cargo, let's go inside and have a quick look
inside of the aircraft. So as you can see, the cargo compartment is four metres high and four metres wide. So that allows us to load
quite unique cargoes. We have a system of internal cranes, which can lift up to 10
tonnes of cargo containers, some of the cargo that
can go easily inside. We can load vehicles. We can load battle
vehicles, armoured vehicles, we can load ships, helicopters. So particularly any type of cargo. Also we have some extra equipment. This is the other part of our EMP system. And some extra tyres, as you can see, so we can easily change the tyre, since some equipment during
the flight, if it needs. - These are incredible
equipment here. What are these? This looks crazy here. - Yeah. These are the lashing locks. Once the cargo is inside,
we secure it with-- - [Sam] They lock the cargo down. So the cargo doesn't shift and move. - [Ievgen] Yes. Exactly. - Which become very dangerous
changing centre of gravity. - Yes. - I think This is why I love about Antonov. You don't need a lot of ground support. - Yes. - Everything can be self sufficient and then the plane arrive settle the ramp, use the crane to load the
goods in and take off. Never, ever thought about the opportunity sitting
on the captain seat on the Antonov 22. It's actually a really
incredible cup of tears. Real, really roomy, I
have to say from a start. And it's very heavy on the yoke, the enter of yoke is very heavy,
need lots of muscle power. And also I'm stepping on
the brake and rudder here. Four engine power, just like flying away. (upbeat music) - Have you seen the
navigator spot on Antonov 22? - [Sam] No. Let's go. (upbeat music) Ho, ho. - Yeah. This is it. - A secret passage. A
navigator sitting here. - Yeah. - Very nice. - [Speaker] This is Vasyl,
our navigator today. (chattering) - So captain and the crew, I want to present you
this fantastic painting. This was painted by a kid
in Dubai, his name is Noah. When I went to his house to visit him, he presented me this painting,
an An-22, I was shocked. He knew this aeroplane
and he drew the An-22. Even you see the nose and
even the registration, you are 09307, and would you have the
honour to sign this painting. And I will give back to Noah. And just to tell him, I
have met you guys, the crew, and they will be a fantastic memory for both myself and for him
and hopefully for you as well. - Noah, we are here now.
Right now, we are here. - Noah, we are here inside. (upbeat music) It's like a dream came true. (soft music) - Our aircraft is 47 years old. And now we have just only
approximately 100 hours. - [Sam] A 100 hours left. - And I don't know about
this aircraft next year. Maybe, the museum maybe, we prolonged-- - [Sam] You never know in aviation. - Yeah. - [Sam] It's better to fly now. So you guys working the team, how long do you know him for? - We are working together
approximately 25 years. - You know each other 25
years, flying on Antonov? - Not only Antonov 22. Oh, Antonov 124, Antonov 225-- - And basically craft Antonov 70. - 70. (upbeat music) - Finally, the bus is arriving after quite a long time waiting. And then it's our shipment for today. (upbeat music) - The aeroplane clearance height is, I think it's four metre by four metre. So let's see if the bus can drive straight into the fields at large. (bus engine roaring) - Stop. (bus engine roaring) - The technical crew is replacing some tyres from the back, so
the bus can drive in. Because once it started to drive in, the end goal didn't allow it to absolutely to dispatch as you can see, I think it's in the exhaust system. (upbeat music) - And this is why I love operational jobs. On the day you have to solve the solution. You can't create a delay,
the delay will be costly. So let's see if that, now they remove some of the
exhaust parts from the bus, they removed that plate,
let's see if this time the bus can drive straight
into the fuselage An-22. (upbeat music) This is so cool, the bus just came inside of Antonov like that, it was like literally
swallowed by the aeroplane. And now the guys are busy to undo the ramp and pack up. (upbeat music) - The only way to light the bus is to put the chains underneath
the exhausts of the bus. - [Sam] Why? So the bus can move? - Yes. So the bus cannot
move during the flight. - [Sam] Yeah. (upbeat music) (plane engine roaring) - We expect departure in 10 minutes. (plane engine roaring) Now, starting engines. (plane engine roaring) Now, we are going to light
64 just for refuelling, because Bremen very short runway. After refuelling we are going to Baku. (speaking in foreign language) (plane engine roaring) - [Instructor] Antonov
3518, line up runway 09. - [Captain] Line up 093518. The guy is back. - [Instructor] Antonov 3518109. (speaking foreign language) (upbeat music) (plane engine roaring) (upbeat music) - [Instructor] Antonov 3518
descend flight level 110. - [Pilot] It changed itself to 1103518. (upbeat music) - [Instructor] Antonov 3518 have you established the localizer? (speaking in foreign language) - Now, we are strengthening
most for runway 265, once we are in Leipzig. - Antonov 3518 (speaking in foreign language) (plane engine roaring) (whooshing) (beeping)
I live near Leipzig. It flew over my house that one day. Wasnt fast enough on my roof to take pics tho :(