An-225 --the An-124's big brother-ski...
Posted on 04/30/2010 12:55:06 PM PDT by Selene
The Russians will lease the plane out for just about any large cargo, for a price. Big Antonovs were a common sight at Houston Intercontinental in the air cargo area during the nineties. A common load was oilfield, pipeline, and refinery equipment to some corner of the globe. Whole gas turbine driven pipeline compressors were loaded w/ very little disassembly (these turbines tend to be in the 10,000 to 25,000 hp range).
The big one refered to in this article has been seen at Minneapolis-St.Paul Airport.
That was fun, thanks! Given the title “Russian plane Australia Weight and Balance issue”, I was sort of expecting it to tip backwards onto its tail as it began to move forward.
Now I’ve got to go watch “Pilot pulls up landing gear while on runway”, which I spotted on the sidebar.
There is one with six engines that flies into Paine Field next to the Everett Boeing plant ... Huge thing ... was told it was used to transport 777 engines since they can’t be trucked in ...
WHAT IS THAT AND WHAT VIDEO GAME DOES IT COME FROM?.................8^0
An-225 --the An-124's big brother-ski...
Have you seen this one? It’s about a little plane (no way would this be possible with anything much bigger).
“Landing Gear Spectacular”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANLgWY6I9uk&feature=related
It would be great if on the return trip they could bring a load of King Crab and Sockeye Salmon to North Carolina. I'd be glad to chip in on that... /g
Happens more often that you think.......
Russians never volunteer anything...
The quantity of wheels is for weight distribution on the runway. An earlier example of this was the early B-36. The main landing gear had just single wheels, not multi-wheel bogies. The weight loading on the concrete runway (even steel reinforced concrete) was merry hell, especially during landings. Later models of the big Convair bomber had multiwheel bogies on its main landing gear.
Antonov also designs its transport aircraft to be able to operate from rough fields, going back to a Soviet Air Force requirement.
Had a tour through it ....
An AN 225 came into RDU a year or so ago.
Picked up a huge generator bound for Africa.
Me and a crowd went to the airport to watch it take off around 10p that night.
Light misty rain prevented me from getting any pics.
I was amazed how quiet to was.
I don’t understand- don’t they fly around in the mountains of afghanistan? Why would any windows get blown out?
“Don’t you think “Big Ivan” or “Big Vlad” would be more fitting?”
The nickname is based on the plane’s manufacturer (Antonov is the Russian form of Anthony), but you have a good point.
“lucky”
Luck had nothing to do with it.
Actually it is not ...size-wise they are exceedingly different. Same purpose, but not a ‘ski’ in the same way a B-1ski or a F-22ski is.
“maintenance window”
Meaning the time/mileage period at which an airframe or component must be inspected, rebuilt or replaced.
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