World's largest aeroplane destroyed.

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Yeah bugger awesome plane for sure.

I've seen the 124's in real life but never the 225.

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To paraphrase Douglas Adams : "The 225 is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to the wingspan of the Antonov 225".

I was talking to my 7 year old about it last night, and to try and give it some perspective we measured it in "front yards". As in if one wing started here, at the end of our front yard. The end of the other wing would be at the end of Daves yard, 4 houses down. So it spans 5 yards. We then calculated if we sliced our house across the laundry, both bits would slide into the fuselage cleanly end to end with enough room for 4 of our swimming pools sideways, stacked (2x2) and full of water. At that point there'd still be cargo weight capacity left over.

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Adding a bit more info. Video confirms the Antonov An-225 was destroyed in Ukraine war - Fire Aviation




Who was it that needed proof?

Some more info here.

This Is Our First Tragic Look At All That's Left Of Ukraine's Giant An-225 Cargo jet

Found this link with a former An-225 pilot who has visited the airfield and filmed the damage both outside and inside the hangars. If you want to go straight to the An-225, it appears around 18 minutes in.


New Video Shows The Burned Antonov An-225's Damage In Detail


An absolute longshot, but hey, lets hope!

Destroyed An-225 "Dream" Cargo Jet'''s Owner Wants To Crowdfund Its Resurrection

Even the remaining parts have so much damage and I'm sure the entire thing has been heat affected.

I would love to see the Antonov rebuilt and fly again, but I suspect there will be very little that they can reuse.

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Even the remaining parts have so much damage and I'm sure the entire thing has been heat affected.

I would love to see the Antonov rebuilt and fly again, but I suspect there will be very little that they can reuse.

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I'd like to see this happen again from the safety of a deck chair in the ACT (volume needs to be on, for erudite comments):

Russian Il-76 Heavy Transport (trying to) depart Canberra - YouTube

cheers, DL

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I'd like to see this happen again from the safety of a deck chair in the ACT (volume needs to be on, for erudite comments):

Russian Il-76 Heavy Transport (trying to) depart Canberra - YouTube

cheers, DL

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There can't have been an extra cm of runway to be used there! :o:o:o

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Even the remaining parts have so much damage and I'm sure the entire thing has been heat affected.

I would love to see the Antonov rebuilt and fly again, but I suspect there will be very little that they can reuse.

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Maybe the " pre-flying one" (?) ,but isn't there a 1/2 built one in a hangar there that was photographed & discussed? Let's hope they never touched that one & regardless of who made it, it was still a wonderfully engineered piece of kit.


Maybe when this "invasion" is all done with one day soon [bighmmm], there may be a ground swell to finish it one day for commercial reasons, but personally I wouldn't like to travel in it if there are softened ally bits of the wrecked one in it's rebuild.

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Maybe the " pre-flying one" (?) ,but isn't there a 1/2 built one in a hangar there that was photographed & discussed? Let's hope they never touched that one & regardless of who made it, it was still a wonderfully engineered piece of kit.


Maybe when this "invasion" is all done with one day soon [bighmmm], there may be a ground swell to finish it one day for commercial reasons, but personally I wouldn't like to travel in it if there are softened ally bits of the wrecked one in it's rebuild.

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Rather than build a "vaccine" factory in Victoria... spend the money AND give refuge to some Ukranians... like the entire Antonov Company...and what's left of the factory and parts... and Plans.

Would give us both expertise, Goodwill and maybe a viable AUSTRALIAN Industry. If we subsidised it the way we shovelled dollars to Ford & GM, we'd have enough to ...... How much did we GIVE them with armaments and Fighting Vehicles and costs of transport and training and and and..? For Zero return ?

Bonus would be.... when we next have our 'once in a thousand years central Australian Floods' in the next few years...and East-West links are cut, we'd have a viable replacement !

Disclaimer:- I just want to see the 225 et all back in the air. And more of them. In Oz. [biggrin]