A Ship of the Air if ever there was one...

[gordon-in-aberdeen]

Apologies if this has been posted before, but I just came across it last night and thought it was absolutely fantastic.

Mind blowing photos of the truly eye watering AN-225

http://gelio.livejournal.com/193025.html

Now wheres me tin hat

[Scorpius]

Not big enough for Putin's expansionist plans though..................

Nice find nonetheless!

Nev

[sketchy74]

Fantastic photography. Thanks for posting.

[FlyTexas]

An amazing aircraft for sure. Thanks for the link G. Here's an animated gif of the An-225 I found the other day which gave me a laugh.


Brian

[GHD]

Did you notice that the crew had Ukrainian flashes

[Garry Russell]

Antonov is Ukrainian

[GHD]

So it is. I thought it was Russian

It probably will be soon

[airboatr]

Re Brian

that's not looking very ship shape.

[cstorey]

It has fascinated me that the Russians don't seem to have cottoned onto the fact that a significant part of their aircraft industry is in the non-Russian speaking area of Ukraine . Also, sooner or later their supply of parts for their Western built aircraft is liable to be cut off ( particularly Boeing ) , and of course in the worst case their aircraft will be banned from Europe . Interesting times we live in thanks to that madman Putin who with his Anschluss reminds me more of Hitler every day - even the pretext is the same

[Garry Russell]

AFAIK They don't have any Western aircraft. They are leased and fly under Irish or Bermudan registry.

Quite what position that put the leasing companies in remains to be seen.