Antanov 225 visit to Shannon June 10 2020

Metric Tensor

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2020/0610/1146491-ppe-plane-shannon/

Came here to look for a thread about this when I read about it this morning. Maybe I'm missing it but can't see one.

Would love to see some pictures if anybody will be out watching. Definitely won't be able to go myself but always wanted to see this plane!

Edit: Just see it now on the Flightradar thread.

Atlantic Dawn

Currently over The Black Sea...
https://fr24.com/ADB3429/24aa823b

Storm 10

If anyone is going there and do a live stream via facebook will you let us know here.

alchemist33

Who does this one belong to?

Atlantic Dawn

alchemist33 wrote: »

Who does this one belong to?

Antanov Airlines in Ukraine...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_Airlines

HeidiHeidi

I swore that the next time this appeared in Ireland I'd take leave and travel down to see it.


Not this time unfortunately

rodDaly69

I doubt I'll be able to make it down for her coming in. But does anyone know when it's leaving? Would be great to see her take off at least

galwaytt

Any chance it will be streamed anywhere ?

Sterling Archer

Still due out tomorrow I believe, hopefully someone competent with a camera can stream it

rodDaly69

Sterling Archer wrote: »

Still due out tomorrow I believe, hopefully someone competent with a camera can stream it

Any idea what time, I should be able to swing a day of leave tomorrow, today was just too short of notice.

If I get it off I will do a livestream

holidaygirl

It's meant to depart around 10am on Thursday morning going to Leipzig, Germany.

josip

12-15 years ago we were waiting in Prague for the 2nd leg of our Czech Airlines flight.
I was doing some 'important' work on the laptop and my wife went for a walk.
She came back and said, 'come quickly, there's a big plane'.
I reluctantly followed assuming 'big' meant a 747 or something.
But no, there taxi-ing to the runway was the 225, all 6 engines of her.
Ground crew beneath us stopped what they were doing too.
After a few minutes pause it started moving down the runway.
Horrendous amounts of black smoke trailing behind it.
For a brief moment I thought, this is what a T-34 with wings would look like.
It t o o k f o r e v e r to get off the ground and its angle of attack was almost negligible.
It was fairly quickly lost to sight behind the black smokescreen from the engines.
It just didn't seem possible that something so big and heavy should be able to fly.
Probably only a live rocket launch could top that for me.
Very grateful to my wife for dragging my difficult butt away from the laptop that day.

vicwatson

holidaygirl wrote: »

It's meant to depart around 10am on Thursday morning going to Leipzig, Germany.

It didn't by the looks of it, it's GYD - SNN

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

Heading down to Shannon now from Ennis, hope there's space in one of the viewing spots

Sterling Archer

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup wrote: »

Heading down to Shannon now from Ennis, hope there's space in one of the viewing spots

Let us know

xabi

Public asked to stay away. Wouldn't put me off if I was close.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/public-asked-not-to-visit-shannon-airport-as-worlds-largest-aircraft-delivers-ppe-1004399.html

josip

xabi wrote: »

Public asked to stay away. Wouldn't put me off if I was close.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/public-asked-not-to-visit-shannon-airport-as-worlds-largest-aircraft-delivers-ppe-1004399.html

Maybe if Niall Maloney sent someone out to live stream the landing and take off, it would be more effective than media announcements.

vicwatson

Coming across the Irish Sea, should make Wexford in about 10 minutes or less

Kencollins

Shannon are using RWY 06 at the moment, so it will come in over the Shannon Estuary, landing on the tower end of the runway

md323

Kencollins wrote: »

Shannon are using RWY 06 at the moment, so it will come in over the Shannon Estuary, landing on the tower end of the runway

Feck, im at the other end

TomTree

Any way of watching it land online ?

Sterling Archer

md323 wrote: »

Feck, im at the other end

Probably better off, get to feel the reverse thrust... Is it busy there?

md323

Sterling Archer wrote: »

Probably better off, get to feel the reverse thrust... Is it busy there?

With the amount of cars here, easily a thousand here

crow_eat_crow

Could anyone put it up on Periscope?

GBX

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=570979296773703&notif_id=1591793082086625&notif_t=live_video

rodDaly69

GBX wrote: »

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=570979296773703&notif_id=1591793082086625&notif_t=live_video

Wow, did they go through the 2007 lost and found box to find the worst phone possible to record that with?

Kilboor

rodDaly69 wrote: »

Wow, did they go through the 2007 lost and found box to find the worst phone possible to record that with?

More to do with the signal they had I'd say.

holidaygirl

vicwatson wrote: »

It didn't by the looks of it, it's GYD - SNN

That's meant to be tomorrows departure from Shannon, not today's arrival.

GBX

rodDaly69 wrote: »

Wow, did they go through the 2007 lost and found box to find the worst phone possible to record that with?

Looks like it. Terrible picture quality! :mad:

jogdish

Ah portrait mode we meet again

Rob2D

jogdish wrote: »

Ah portrait mode we meet again

HOW?! In this day and age........

Anyway, disappointed it came in over the water. It would have flown right over us here at work in Sixmilebridge. Everyone here was excited to go out and see her go over:(

ronnie3585

Anyone know why it landed on 06?

METAR was showing 290/07 when it landed.

markjbloggs

What is the cost of using a 225 to transport PPE from China relative to the cost of a sea shipment?

pm.

markjbloggs wrote: »

What is the cost of using a 225 to transport PPE from China relative to the cost of a sea shipment?

I would think its purely down to the time it takes to get to our shores over cost

Phoenix3

Would anybody know when it is due to depart please ?

Spanish Eyes

https://twitter.com/ShannonAirport/status/1270709678452772865?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Spanish Eyes

https://twitter.com/search?q=shannon+airport&ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Esearch

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

absolutey packed with cars down in Shannon, great to see a bit of buzz around. then I went into the terminal after for a píss and it was like an empty hospital. Internet was terrible down there so couldn't livestream. I'd a bad view anyway

https://streamable.com/7eqqg2

The_Dave

The recordings of the moon landing were better quality

Board Walker

Phoenix3 wrote: »

Would anybody know when it is due to depart please ?

10am tomorrow subject to change

rodDaly69

Board Walker wrote: »

10am tomorrow subject to change

I imagine if that changes it will be later as opposed to sooner?

Board Walker

Board Walker wrote: »

10am tomorrow subject to change

I'm told Friday now but that isn't confirmed yet

Inquitus

Qatari royalty needed 2 chillers in a hurry for the Air Conditioning on a new hotel due to host one of the princesses weddings. So they contracted the An-225 to fly them in from the factory in La Crosse, WI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20c4ANJwnZw

BZ

Not departing until 0900 on Friday morning.

The_Wanderer

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Anyone know why it landed on 06?

METAR was showing 290/07 when it landed.

Yeah I stuck to the government guidelines and stuck to my county (I wonder how many breached the restrictions?) and went up the Arra Mountains by Lough Derg to hopefully catch a view of it on approach to Shannon.

You win some, you lose some.

jogdish

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

https://twitter.com/search?q=shannon+airport&ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Esearch

Where is this? Would love to see a plane of any sort land with that view - assuming its all safe and legal. any directions?

California Dreamer

How sad is this when we lose our sh1t over 1 aircraft coming to Shannon that even the news people are there.

Comhrá

California Dreamer wrote: »

How sad is this when we lose our sh1t over 1 aircraft coming to Shannon that even the news people are there.

Your post is even sadder. Why does it bother you that people enjoy such an event and show interest. It was an interesting occasion especially for aviation fans and I along with hundreds more had a pleasant few hours in Shannon.

lintdrummer

California Dreamer wrote: »

How sad is this when we lose our sh1t over 1 aircraft coming to Shannon that even the news people are there.

I know, it's not like it's the largest aircraft in the world, and the only flying example of the type!

Seriously, of course this was going to generate interest, particularly in the current aviation climate.

eastmayo

Got nice and close....some sight it was.

California Dreamer

Comhra wrote: »

Your post is even sadder. Why does it bother you that people enjoy such an event and show interest. It was an interesting occasion especially for aviation fans and I along with hundreds more had a pleasant few hours in Shannon.

That it may but I spend most of my time in this forum so some 30 year old Soviet era bird doesnt really do it for me and lets not even go down the lack of social distancing at the airport based on the pictures that I saw.

My point being that life must be pretty dull if this is what passes for excitement these days.

Must be a very slow news day if the crews are there to report on it.