AN225 “Mriya” is destroyed
Feb 27, 2022 | 10:13 am
#2
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 1999
Programs: FB PLT again afater a decade as plebian
Posts: 22,946
Feb 27, 2022 | 10:50 am
#3
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Back in Reds Country (DAY/CVG). Previously: SEA & SAT.
Posts: 11,998
Was it a one-of? It certainly was useful for its (very) heavy lift (and wide size) capacity which may not be replaceable. If any airlines need a GE-90-110/115 (or even bigger) engine flown into a remote airport to replace a blown engine, the alternatives may be slow and painful.
I saw this aircraft just a few weeks ago at Billund, Denmark. I could see it across the ramp while in the terminal. Hundreds if not thousands of people came out to line the airport perimeter fence watch the An-225 depart. We taxied out and then had to hold while the An-225 crossed the runway.
Feb 27, 2022 | 11:15 am
#4
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 1999
Programs: FB PLT again afater a decade as plebian
Posts: 22,946
I saw this aircraft just a few weeks ago at Billund, Denmark. I could see it across the ramp while in the terminal. Hundreds if not thousands of people came out to line the airport perimeter fence watch the An-225 depart. We taxied out and then had to hold while the An-225 crossed the runway.
At any rate, kind of surprised it wasn't moved out of harm's way.
Feb 27, 2022 | 6:49 pm
#7
Join Date: Sep 2019
Posts: 1,149
Feb 27, 2022 | 8:58 pm
#8
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: MEL CHC
Posts: 22,948
Feb 28, 2022 | 1:22 am
#10
Join Date: Jan 2022
Location: CMI
Programs: AAdvantage Platinum
Posts: 106
Yes, the An-225 was a one-off. Only one was built and as you note, carried unique cargo not transportable by other aircraft types and alternate methods could be very slow.
I saw this aircraft just a few weeks ago at Billund, Denmark. I could see it across the ramp while in the terminal. Hundreds if not thousands of people came out to line the airport perimeter fence watch the An-225 depart. We taxied out and then had to hold while the An-225 crossed the runway.
I saw this aircraft just a few weeks ago at Billund, Denmark. I could see it across the ramp while in the terminal. Hundreds if not thousands of people came out to line the airport perimeter fence watch the An-225 depart. We taxied out and then had to hold while the An-225 crossed the runway.
Feb 28, 2022 | 3:22 am
#12
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: England - UK
Posts: 512
Yes, the An-225 was a one-off. Only one was built and as you note, carried unique cargo not transportable by other aircraft types and alternate methods could be very slow.
I saw this aircraft just a few weeks ago at Billund, Denmark. I could see it across the ramp while in the terminal. Hundreds if not thousands of people came out to line the airport perimeter fence watch the An-225 depart. We taxied out and then had to hold while the An-225 crossed the runway.
I saw this aircraft just a few weeks ago at Billund, Denmark. I could see it across the ramp while in the terminal. Hundreds if not thousands of people came out to line the airport perimeter fence watch the An-225 depart. We taxied out and then had to hold while the An-225 crossed the runway.
Feb 28, 2022 | 3:35 am
#13
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: TAS
Programs: A3*G, UA 1K
Posts: 9,252
The second AN-225 was never finished. There are some parts of it that have been in the works since the late 1980s, but it was never finished. Antonov Airlines is a moneymaking machine, but the market did not need 2 such planes, so they never finished the second one.
I'm proud to say that both my dad and grandpa both were involved in the development of the plane as engineers.
Here is the chief pilot's youtube channel where he filmed many of the takeoffs and landings (mostly in Russian) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_i...2qZQcu2feXWhDg
Feb 28, 2022 | 10:19 am
#14
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: SEA — the REAL Washington; occasionally in the other Washington (DCA area)
Programs: AS MVPG 100K (Atmos Titanium) / 0.5MM; DL fallen PM (1.58MM = “Complimentary Annual GM”); AA Gold
Posts: 24,510
Feb 28, 2022 | 10:23 am
#15
Suspended
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Canada, USA, Europe
Programs: UA 1K
Posts: 31,439
Was it a one-of? It certainly was useful for its (very) heavy lift (and wide size) capacity which may not be replaceable. If any airlines need a GE-90-110/115 (or even bigger) engine flown into a remote airport to replace a blown engine, the alternatives may be slow and painful.