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From: Jess Lurkin <NiceGuy@3456.com>
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Subject: Re: Antonov AN-225
Date: 4 Jan 2017 01:33:23 GMT
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> "Miloch" wrote in message news:o4hehp01pkh@drn.newsguy.com...
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>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya
>
> It created a sensation when it came to Oklahoma City in 1990:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDEC66kam34
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> - The Russians Arrive in a Big Way World's Largest Plane Brings Soviet
> Delegation to Air Show
>
> James Johnson
> June 13, 1990
>
> Surprisingly quiet despite its gigantic dimensions, the Soviet Antonov
> An-225 transport, the world's largest airplane, touched down Tuesday
> at Will Rogers World Airport.
>
> The white, six-engine behemoth landed in a cloud of burning rubber
> smoke resulting from the friction of its wheels hitting the runway.
>
> "There goes 40 pounds of rubber it happens every time it lands," said
> Tom Jones, who, as director of the annual Aerospace America air show
> at the Oklahoma City municipal airport, was on hand for the
> early-morning arrival of the starring Russian aircraft.
>
> Designated the Mryia (Dream) by the Soviets, it is 28 feet longer, and
> its wingspan 68 feet wider, than the American Lockheed C-5 Galaxy,
> which used to be the largest plane in the world.
>
> At 290 feet, its wingspan is nearly the length of a football field.
>
> And the Soviet aerial giant's gross weight exceeds the C-5's by
> 486,750 pounds. In fact, it is the first plane to fly with a gross
> weight above 1 million pounds.
>
> Unlike Soviet military planes coming to Aerospace America, the An-225
> civil transport didn't require an escort of U.S. military fighters
> while flying over American territory.
>
> The flight from Moscow took 19 hours and 24 minutes, with a stop at
> Paine Field in Everett, Wash., to take aboard an American navigator.
>
> The An-225 is designed to carry a Soviet space shuttle, but the
> shuttle hasn't yet ventured into space.
>
> A second An-225 is planned and the Soviets say others will be built
> "as needed."
>
> Parked on the diagonal runway at Will Rogers, where it will be
> displayed during Aerospace America '90, the An-225 carried a load of
> Soviet aircraft and disgorged a large delegation of official visitors
> and ground crewmen who will support the Soviet aircraft array during
> the air show Friday night, Saturday and Sunday.
>
> The Russian delegation, headed by Alexander N. Gerashchenko, first
> deputy minister of the Soviet aviation ministry, will be feted in a
> series of receptions while in Oklahoma City.
>
> They also will attend the graduation ceremony at OCU for 17 Soviet
> aviation industry executives completing a special business
> administration course.
>
> http://newsok.com/article/2320561
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I was there as well! Did the walk-thru.
A BEHEMOTH! Fold the wings of a C-5 and
it would fit nicely.
Did you make the show when the BlackBird
visited? Forget the year.'96? '98? I think
'twas the year after Tom Jones augered.
The wings on this monster would have made
great emergency patches for the Titanic
(from a convo in diff group)
Jess Lurkin (diff nym in that group ;)
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