«Mria» An-255
«Mria» An-255 airplane flies over the Antonov Aviation Scientific Center’s flight station in Gostomel, Kyiv outskirts, on Monday, May 7, 2001. This day the world largest super-heavy universal transport aircraft made a flight. Mria An-225 was created in 1988 as an air start platform for the Buran space cargo aircraft launches. Load capacity - 250 tones, size of load cabin 43 meters, width - 6.4 meters, height - 4.4 meters. The inside fuselage surface may carry loads, dimensions of which exceed the possibilities of other transport means, for example 7-10-meter in diameter and 70m-long loads, shuttle crafts, avia-space purpose produce. As soon as the certificate of type is received the car will be presented on the Paris Avia Salon in Le Bourget (France) in this June.
Photo by Dima Gavrish/ UNIAN
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- Gavrish Dmitry
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- Ukraine / Kyiv
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- 07.05.2001
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