Posted on 02/27/2022 6:09:36 PM PST by BenLurkin
That plane was designed to move the russian space shuttle i believe. now its just a neat tool to move a whole bunch of cargo. i dont think that it has any practical military use. its not STOL capable.
You have to figure in all the payoffs and then theres the 10% for the big guy
Tough to believe that it couldn’t lift off from a low altitude airport, empty with just a splash of fuel, sans one engine.
My son-in-law is working on the B-52 repower at Rolls Royce.
I tell him: “Designed with slide rules, drawn on vellum with pencil, and manufactured by high school graduates running manually controlled machine tools.” And still going strong 70 years later.
Terrible thing.
I know I’ve been inside a US C-5 at air shows. I may have been inside an Antonov An-124 years ago. I don’t think I could grasp how absolutely huge the 225 is.
It is sad. We may never know if the plane was targeted deliberately or if its destruction was just a consequence of taking out the airport as an military asset.
The typical psychopaths that rule humanity and the destruction they cause are disgusting. War is waste.
An amazing plane.
Need a credible report like Mad Magazine.
I got to see it up close and personal at ILA in Berlin. It is massive. If it will take a couple billion to make new ones, that is one of the only aircraft projects that would get me back in to old life as a flight control engineer.
There are photos of it burning. F*cking Russians!
That plane was the pride of Ukraine and one of a kind. I saw it land once when I used to work at the Kennedy Space Center. That plane was one sight to see.
Really sad.
Explains the twin tails...
“On Friday, Colonel Warden looked over the information and asked for a better design. Returning to the hotel, the Boeing team was joined by Bob Withington and Maynard Pennell, two top Boeing engineers who were in town on other business.[38]
By late Friday night, they had laid out what was essentially a new airplane. The new design (464-49) built upon the basic layout of the B-47 Stratojet with 35-degree swept wings, eight engines paired in four underwings pods, and bicycle landing gear with wingtip outrigger wheels.[39] A notable feature of the landing gear was the ability to pivot both fore and aft main landing gear up to 20° from the aircraft centerline to increase safety during crosswind landings (allowing the aircraft to “crab” or roll with a sideways slip angle down the runway).[40] After a trip to a hobby shop for supplies, Schairer set to work building a model. The rest of the team focused on weight and performance data. Wells, who was also a skilled artist, completed the aircraft drawings. On Sunday, a stenographer was hired to type a clean copy of the proposal. On Monday, Schairer presented Colonel Warden with a neatly bound 33-page proposal and a 14-inch (36 cm) scale model.[38] The aircraft was projected to exceed all design specifications.[41] “
LOL, doesn’t even sound like much use of slide-rules was involved...
Still waiting for the “after” picture.
All the sightings were while the AN-225 was on final landing approach to IAH, wheels and flaps down. That plane is absolutely huge. When I was in high school, our house was in the flight pattern for Tinker AFB and B-52s were going over the house 3 miles from touchdown. The AN-225 made the B-52 look small.
The reason for the several AN-225 sightings is that at the time, the AN-225 made regular runs 1-2 times a month between Houston and Russia. In Houston it loaded up with specialty oil field equipment. I don't know what the import cargo from Russia to the USA was.
The flight route IIRC was Houston, Seattle, Anchorage then Siberia. I don't know the Russia airport destinations.
In the race to have THE BIGGEST!! how long until Elon and Bezos get into a contest to see who can have the NEW BIGGEST airplane?
A 55 gallon drum of Bondo would do the trick.
Reportedly, the long lead time components needed to manufacture a second one are in storage at Antonov.
Recently saw a video saying that China had shown some interest in getting it completed by Antonov and possibly manufacturing it under license.
Probably for some stress calculations but I understand what you’re saying.
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