I saw the AN-225 once, back in the 90's. Changing planes in Vegas,
taxiing out for the second leg, and there it was, parked a couple
hundred yards over to one side occupying a great deal of real estate.
No mistaking it (unless there's another six turbofan high-wing heavy
airlifter out there.) Never did find out what they might have been
delivering - no news reports at the time. Maybe the crew was just making
a stopover in Vegas on their way back from some other job?
Well, here's to a quick just peace, and Antonov getting funding to fix
up the plant and build a few more 225's, now that their factory
airport's had a bit too close a brush with history. (Milblogging here
would be way off-topic, but the battle that centered on Antonov's
airport late last week was apparently epic.)
Henry
On 2/28/2022 2:34 PM, Henry Spencer wrote:
News reports say that the Antonov Mriya (the one and only An-225) has been destroyed in the fighting in Ukraine.
(Antonov is a Ukrainian company, and there's been fighting since Thursday around its test center outside Kyiv, where the Mriya was parked.)
Henry
