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World's only An-225 destroyed by Russian airstrikes

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Re: World's only An-225 destroyed by Russian airstrikes

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Post by masklinn »

Stevvo wrote: post #53
lordnacho wrote: post #41

How does type rating work for this one off kind of plane? How do you get hours in the one plane, and is there a simulator? Also what do you do when the plane you're rated for is destroyed?

There is a sim; https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antonov_An-225_fli... Not sure if all of the cockpit is in that sim; there are 6 seats! I expect the pilots all started out flying other types, so will go back to doing that.

> Not sure if all of the cockpit is in that sim; there are 6 seats!

That would be correct, like the AN-124 the An-225 has a crew of 6 (plus 2 loadmasters I think?). While the planes were retrofit and modernised they kept a pretty heavy crew scheme, nominal crew is 2 pilots, 2 FE, and 2 comms. Might be that they didn’t see the need to change the crew scheme, or might be the origins in strategic military transportation (the C5 also has a hefty crew with FEs).

Re: World's only An-225 destroyed by Russian airstrikes

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Post by supreme_berry »

verisimi wrote: post #89

I was confused about this. I presumed Antonov Airlines was a Russian airline, so I was wondering why the Russians would destroy their own planes. But Antonov Airlines is a Ukrainian company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_Airlines The plane was designed in Soviet (Russian) Ukraine (ie before 1991) to carry the Soviet (Russian) space shuttle. edited to say Soviet, not Russian

What is Russian Ukraine? How old are you?

Re: World's only An-225 destroyed by Russian airstrikes

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Post by unmole »

wchar_t wrote: post #87
unmole wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the guidelines: > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data. I agree. But please don't group all accusations into this bucket -- take a look at OP's comment history, they do have a tendency to make these kind of comments.

> they do have a tendency to make these kind of comments.

Sure. But I'm not seeing anything to indicate that it is a bot or a shill account. There are plenty of other perfectly normal comments too.

Re: World's only An-225 destroyed by Russian airstrikes

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Post by rootusrootus »

mlac wrote: post #83

I posted this comment on a less popular thread a few days ago: I had the luck of seeing this plane on approach to IAH airport while driving in Houston. For the first few minutes, it looked like a normal size plane, but felt too low and too slow. Then for the next few minutes, it kept getting bigger and bigger. Then I saw it had 6 engines. And a tail wing that seemed as large as a normal plane’s wingspan. I was lucky…

I can only imagine. Once in a while an An-124 will fly over my house (I'm pretty close to the typical pattern entry for an international airport, so I see a lot of airliners go by at 5-6K feet). It seems fairly impressive, but it's nothing compared to that An-225.

Re: World's only An-225 destroyed by Russian airstrikes

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Post by rootusrootus »

supreme_berry wrote: post #92
verisimi wrote: post #89

I was confused about this. I presumed Antonov Airlines was a Russian airline, so I was wondering why the Russians would destroy their own planes. But Antonov Airlines is a Ukrainian company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_Airlines The plane was designed in Soviet (Russian) Ukraine (ie before 1991) to carry the Soviet (Russian) space shuttle. edited to say Soviet, not Russian

What is Russian Ukraine? How old are you?

To be fair, it was pretty common to refer to the Soviets as Russians, even if not strictly accurate. Though I don't think I'd ever phrase it as Russian Ukraine if I were writing it out.

Re: World's only An-225 destroyed by Russian airstrikes

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Post by maw »

supreme_berry wrote: post #92
verisimi wrote: post #89

I was confused about this. I presumed Antonov Airlines was a Russian airline, so I was wondering why the Russians would destroy their own planes. But Antonov Airlines is a Ukrainian company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_Airlines The plane was designed in Soviet (Russian) Ukraine (ie before 1991) to carry the Soviet (Russian) space shuttle. edited to say Soviet, not Russian

What is Russian Ukraine? How old are you?

Pretty sure verisimi meant to say "Soviet Ukraine".

Re: World's only An-225 destroyed by Russian airstrikes

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Post by verisimi »

supreme_berry wrote: post #92
verisimi wrote: post #89

I was confused about this. I presumed Antonov Airlines was a Russian airline, so I was wondering why the Russians would destroy their own planes. But Antonov Airlines is a Ukrainian company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_Airlines The plane was designed in Soviet (Russian) Ukraine (ie before 1991) to carry the Soviet (Russian) space shuttle. edited to say Soviet, not Russian

What is Russian Ukraine? How old are you?

Before Ukraine became an independent country in 1991, it was part of the USSR. The plane and space shuttle etc were part of the USSR.

I'm using the term 'Russian Ukraine' because it describes the fact that it was part of the USSR when created. Its not my own term - I read this earlier today, and I think it indicates the placement in time accurately.

Do you object to the term 'Russian Ukraine'?

And what does my age have to do with it? How old are you?

Edited to say - 'Soviet Ukraine' is probably an even better term.

Re: World's only An-225 destroyed by Russian airstrikes

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Post by sidewndr46 »

billfruit wrote: post #68
thematrixturtle wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was also by a fair margin the largest plane actively flying when measured by weight (285T empty, 640T fully loaded), wingspan (88m) or even number of engines (6).

Doesn't the B52, a much smaller aircraft have 8 engines.

I must mention that the B-36 had a whopping 10 engines, a mixture of both jet engines and piston driven engines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-36_Peacemaker#Specif...

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