be they the Hughes Hercules troop carrier, the Scaled Composites Stratolifter space launcher, or the Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo plane. This last machine has been in the news for all the wrong ...

If you're an aviation fan, you've probably heard of the Antonov ... the An-225. However, the Soviets needed something bigger to carry its Buran spacecraft, the USSR's fledgling space shuttle ...

The sheared nose cone of the Antonov An-225 cargo plane towers over Yevhen ... the longest wingspan of any active carrier; six turbo fan engines with more than 50,000 pounds of thrust each ...

Lost in the fighting that ensued for control of the airport was the world's largest plane, the Antonov An-225. The massive ...

The Antonov An-225 Myria was the world's largest cargo aircraft and saved countless lives by bringing humanitarian supplies to disaster-stricken areas all over the world. Sadly, this aircraft was ...

The Antonov An-225 Mriya will reportedly be regularly seen ... The aircraft was originally developed in 1988 to carry a space shuttle, known as the Buran, for the Soviet Union.

In the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, the world's biggest plane - Ukraine's Antonov-225 - was destroyed in Russian strikes. Ukraine's state-owned Ukroboronprom said on Sunday that the plane was ...

the Antonov An225 Mriya, was born in the Soviet Union in 1988. It measured 275 feet long and weighed nearly 420,000 pounds, designed to piggyback the USSR's Buran space shuttle much the same way ...

The Antonov An-225 Mriya, the world’s largest cargo plane, destroyed in the Battle of Antonov Airport during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, stays in a ruined hangar in Hostomel ...

Antonov An-225 Mriya: The World’s Largest Aircraft Was Destroyed in Failed Russian Raid In the early stages of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Kremlin mounted an ...