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AN-225 Sets another Lift Record

  • 18-08-2009 11:43am
    #1
    Steyr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭


    Literally Amazing. That new scheme on her actually looks the business the more i see it.

    http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/08/17/331063/video-worlds-largest-aircraft-an-225-emerges-to-set-new-lift-record.html

    DATE:17/08/09
    SOURCE:Flight International
    VIDEO: World's largest aircraft, An-225, emerges to set new lift record

    Ukraine’s Antonov An-225 has emerged from an overhaul in Kiev to claim a record airlift at Frankfurt Hahn Airport.

    Antonov Airlines’ An-225 is the sole example of the heavy-lift freighter, the world’s largest operational aircraft.

    It has been repainted with a new livery featuring the blue and yellow national colours of Ukraine and appeared at Hahn on 11 August. The aircraft transported a 16.2m (53ft)-long generator destined for a gas plant in Armenia.

    The generator weighed 187.6t – although the loading frame increased this to just under 190t – which Hahn Airport’s operator claims is the heaviest single-piece cargo ever transported by air.

    After a period of dormancy the An-225, which is powered by six Ivchenko Progress D-18 engines, returned to commercial service in 2001 after extensive refitting and has since been available for specialised ad hoc heavy transport work.


    Work to build a second An-225 airframe was abandoned and while discussions have occasionally taken place over possible completion, there has been no advancement in construction.


Comments

  • #2
    View Profile
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    I didn't realise there was only one working 225 in the world. Pity.


  • #3
    drdeadlift
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    That is just incredible,190tons! i wonder was there a fuel stop required maybe in Gander of keflavik? or maybe two fuel stops


  • #4
    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭Danbo!


    View Profile wrote: »
    I didn't realise there was only one working 225 in the world. Pity.

    Neither did I until I read the last part of the article. What an impressive machine..

    I cant get over the size of it, but look at this comparison...(open to correction, but I'm assuming the American and Russian shuttles are of similar size)

    Buran_On_Antonov225.jpg

    space-shuttle-on-747.jpg


  • #5
    Steyr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭Steyr


    drdeadlift wrote: »
    i wonder was there a fuel stop required maybe in Gander of keflavik? or maybe two fuel stops

    Why would she fuel stop at Gander or Keflavik when she was just going from Germany to Armenia?:pac:


  • #6
    drdeadlift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,189 ✭✭✭drdeadlift


    Steyr wrote: »
    Why would she fuel stop at Gander or Keflavik when she was just going from Germany to Armenia?:pac:

    we both know the answer to that,armenia/america.Thanks for spotting the mistake.


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  • #7
    highlydebased
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    Its range fully laden is around 2500 miles, Hahn-Gander is 2700 miles so it probably routed through Keflavik....


  • #8
    Steyr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭Steyr


    Neon-Circles wrote: »
    Its range fully laden is around 2500 miles, Hahn-Gander is 2700 miles so it probably routed through Keflavik....

    Yet again why route through Iceland when its going to Armenia NOT America..It went nowhere near Keflavik or Gander it was going from Germany to Armenia.


  • #9
    cyrusdvirus
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    Stee wrote: »

    I cant get over the size of it, but look at this comparison...(open to correction, but I'm assuming the American and Russian shuttles are of similar size)

    Cool pics there Stee...

    The Yankee Capitalist Shuttle is 1 imperialist metre longer..

    Wait, we're all Capitalists now...

    There was about 1 metre in the difference. Never knew that the Buran was destroyed when her hanger collapsed.

    Or that there was a second one virtually completed


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