The story of Antonov AN-225

“The Antonov An-225 Mriya (Ukrainian: Антонов Ан-225 Мрія, means. 'dream' or 'inspiration'; NATO reporting name: Cossack) was a strategic airlift cargo aircraft designed and produced by the Antonov Design Bureau in the Soviet Union”.

 

 

This plane was the only one ever built and also, it’s the largest plane ever made but it wasn’t always that way and I will explain what I mean by that.

 

                                    Antonov AN-225

Length: 84 m (275.6 ft )

Height: 18.1 m (59.4 ft )

Engine: Progress D-18T turbofan engines

Wingspan: 88.4 m (290 ft )

Number of engines: 6

Number of landing gears: 36

Speed: 800 km/h (497 MPH ; 432 kt )

 

As I said earlier this plane is the only one ever built and (can you guess where it was built?) it was built in Russia / Soviet Union. They needed and airplane powerful enough to airlift the rocket components to the launch site  

Ok lets fast-forward a few years, it would end up in the scrap yard in Kiev Ukraine but then they had an idea where they will repair the giant plane and even upgrade it and it worked the Mriya had transported cargo that no other plane could have transported like an electric generator, electric locomotives and a lot of boxes that contained medicine, medical equipment, canned goods and food, and a lot of other stuff you can think off.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Amazing right? It can do so much but it can only 

fly when no other plane can do the job, so basically it only flew like every once in a while, as for the number of flights is normally supposed to be around 20 a year it did help do things like transport medical stuff in the early days covid-19.

Yeah it really did all that until the present day but what’s really sad is that its partially destroyed in the Antonov Airport hangar all because of the war Russia cause and started.

Now Antonov AN-225 lies broken in the airport with the front part collapsed, the wings have falling apart (but the left wing is fine) and the engines of the right wing is destroyed. The Russians would have to pay over 3 billion USD for the repairs of the plane and for the repairs of Ukrainian property

 

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