Antonov An-225: 3 years ago, the Russians destroyed the world’s largest aircraft

A plane like the Antonov An-225 was not a second time. The huge transport aircraft was 84 meters long and had a wingspan of 88.4 meters. Up to 250 tons of loads found space in her huge belly or on her back.

She was already an old lady. In 1988 she completed her first flight. From May 1989 she wore the “Buran” room ferry on her back. In June 1989, the machine on the Aérosalon Parisian Aérosalon was shown for the first time in the west. After the “Buran” program was stopped, it was initially decommissioned in April 1994.

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Your pension was not permanent. When many companies were privatized in Ukraine and other countries of the former Soviet Union, the AN-225 was reactivated. The second first flight took place in Kyiv on May 7, 2001.

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