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:(