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Antonov An-225 Carries 150 Ton Load Into China

An124 — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:49:17 +0000

Antonov's AN-225 freighter aircraft, the largest commercial freighter in the world was last week unloading in Shijiazhuang, northern China The aircraft was chartered by freight forwarder, Panalpina, to carry two laser welding machines with a combined weight of about 150 metric tons bound for Tangshan City, Hebei Province. The heavy lift cargo was loaded in [...]

New Build An-124

An124 — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:08:00 +0000

Image by Getty Images via Daylife There have been a flurry of press comment on the possibility of the Russian military ordering new An124 aircraft to kick start the production of new build aircraft. The comment mostly seeming to come from UAC President and CEO Alexei Fyodorov as well as the head of the Russian [...]

190 Ton World Record Airlift By Antonov An-225

An124 — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:35:03 +0000

After a lengthy refit and life extension program in Antonov Design Bureau's facilities in Kiev during the first part of this year the Antonov An-225 has claimed a new world record airlift out of Frankfurt Hahn Airport. Antonov Airlinesâ€™ An-225 'Mriya' is the only example of the heavy-lift freighter, the worldâ€™s largest operational aircraft with [...]

Romantic Freight Dog, Yes. Video Producer – Maybe?

An124 — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:14:15 +0000

So it seems that even Kieran Daley over at Flight Global has some spare minutes to trawl the web for relevant footage of the air cargo charter business and came up with this Youtube video taken from the flight deck of an Antonov An-124. The camera wielding freight dog may be a romantic but looks [...]

Will They Or Won't They….Restart Production of An-124-100?

An124 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:26:47 +0000

Mosnews.com today reported that Russia intends to restart production of the An-124-100.Â It will be interesting to see whether this much talked of event comes to fruition. The Aviastar-SP factory in Ulyanovsk, in Russiaâ€™s Volga region, willÂ again beginÂ making the An-124-100 aircraft, otherwise known as the Ruslan, Lenta.ru reports. It is the worldâ€™s largest commercial cargo [...]

2 x F/A-18 Aircraft For Delivery By Antonov An-124

An124 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:39:36 +0000

There was a time, not all that long ago, when moving fighter airplanes like the F/A-18 from one theatre to another or from manufacturer to customer was a major undertaking, especially when long overwater legs were concerned. Those nations with transport aircraft large enough to accommodate them, (which reduced the list to the USA), were [...]

More Talk Of Co-operation On An-124 And An-70

An124 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:13:48 +0000

Further talks on joint co-operation between Russia and Ukraine relating to the An-124 and An-70 are on the radar after a recent meeting of the Ukrainian-Russian sub-commission on cooperation in the aircraft industry, in preparation for talks between Prime Ministers Tymoshenko and Putin. There is a distinct impression that Russia rather wishes the An-70 would [...]

Antonov An-124 Delivers Metro Cars

An124 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:40:16 +0000

The first of 424 Bombardier metro cars arrived in Delhi, India from Germany onboard an Antonov Airlines AN-124-100M on February 26. The metro cars each weighted 45 tonne and were 22Â·5 m long and 3Â·2 m wide.Â They departed from Parchim airport in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern after being moved there by road from Bombardier's GÃ¶rlitz plant in [...]

Antonov An-225 RC Model

An124 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:03:35 +0000

Found another An-225 model on YouTube. You can see the video over on it's own An-225 model page.

An-124-100 Production Re-Start On Hold?

An124 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:53:14 +0000

The long held dream of Volga Dnepr to restart production of the An124-100 has suffered something of a setback recently as reported by ITAR-TASS. It seems that the project could be delayed for one or two years due to the global economic situation (should the project ever have had a starting point from which to [...]