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An-225 Enroute To IAH  
User currently offlineTu154m From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 667 posts, RR: 6
Posted (9 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 1940 times:

ADB2715 will be landing around 527pm local time from GDL. Just saw it on flytecomm. Seems this big freighter is getting alot of time here in the US!
S


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User currently offlineTony Lu From China, joined Sep 2000, 534 posts, RR: 3
Reply 1, posted (9 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 1817 times:

is there only one an-225?

Tony

User currently offlineMd11lover From Switzerland, joined Oct 2003, 444 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (9 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 1806 times:



Tony,

Yes only one was built and she was named Mirya. Country of origin: Ukraine.

Md11

User currently offlineAndrej From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2001, 814 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (9 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 1796 times:

Hello MD11Lover,

was not the country of orgin USSR? I mean it was built before 1991, right?  Smile/happy/getting dizzy

Cheers,
Andrej

User currently offlineMd11lover From Switzerland, joined Oct 2003, 444 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (9 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 1790 times:


Yeah it was actually. But many have said the main assembly took place in what is now Ukraine although some parts make have come from other parts of the USSR.

md11

User currently offlineHomer71 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 2209 posts, RR: 16
Reply 5, posted (9 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 1786 times:

Just saw it outside our 6th floor window in the Galleria area a few moments ago...it was flying relatively low, so I had to calm some of the folks down Big grin

Thanks for the heads up, Tu154m - pretty unique bird!


"On spaceship earth there are no passengers...only crew."
User currently offlinePl4nekr4zy From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 465 posts, RR: 3
Reply 6, posted (9 years 6 months 1 week 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1710 times:

Hey guys, I saw this beast departing from IAH today on my way home from school. Man that was awesome! My first time to see the famous An-225 Big thumbs up

I heard an unusually loud plane coming, and when I could see it I instantly recognized it as the An-225; it's double tail fin and 6 engines were a dead giveaway.

So does anyone know where she was off to? Anyone get any pics? How bout when her next visit to IAH will be?

Thanx,
pl4nekr4zy


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User currently offlineJcs17 From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 8065 posts, RR: 43
Reply 7, posted (9 years 6 months 1 week 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 1682 times:

Too bad you guys at IAH can't take pictures of it!  Big grin

Signed,
A very jealous DFW photographer.


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User currently offlineBigB From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 593 posts, RR: 3
Reply 8, posted (9 years 6 months 1 week 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 1659 times:

Too bad you guys at IAH can't take pictures of it!

Yea, becasue she left before I found out about it.


ETSN Baber, USN
User currently offlineRkmcswain From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 222 posts, RR: 0
Reply 9, posted (9 years 6 months 1 week 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 1619 times:

So where does the An-225 fit in terms of being the "largest aircraft" currently flying. If it's not, what is? What was it doing in Houston? When will it be back? How could they spend the money to design this, tool an entire factory, and then only make 1?

User currently offlineAeromexico757 From Mexico, joined Aug 2000, 292 posts, RR: 0
Reply 10, posted (9 years 6 months 1 week 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 1572 times:

The AN-225 was in GDL to pick up some cargo to Turkey via IAH, it is said that maybe it can come back to return the cargo, but not sure if via IAH.

Anyone knows where is GML? This is were the AN225 was coming from on the way to GDL.

Saludos

Pablo S.

User currently offlineHlywdCatft From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 5321 posts, RR: 7
Reply 11, posted (9 years 6 months 1 week 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 1565 times:

**The AN-225 was in GDL to pick up some cargo to Turkey via IAH, it is said that maybe it can come back to return the cargo, but not sure if via IAH.**

It was picking up powerplants for the Army Corps of Engineers. It was at MCO two weeks ago picking up similar equipment. I am assuming that the powerplants will be going to Baghdad eventually but they didnt want to risk flying it into Iraq for fear of it getting shot down.

I spoke with the man who was in charge of the shipping of the equipment and he said that it would be heading to IAH in a couple of weeks then and should be making a return to MCO again sometime late December.





User currently offlineBigB From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 593 posts, RR: 3
Reply 12, posted (9 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 1502 times:

It is back, and chillin on the cargo appron


ETSN Baber, USN
User currently offlinePl4nekr4zy From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 465 posts, RR: 3
Reply 13, posted (9 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 1489 times:

It is back, and chillin on the cargo appron

Sweet. Anyone know how long it's here for this time?

[Edited 2003-12-15 01:29:14]


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User currently offlineMattg21iah From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 55 posts, RR: 1
Reply 14, posted (9 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 1466 times:

I saw this morning on flytecomm that it was back and went out there about 12pm and it didn't look like any cargo was being moved. I'm guessing it will be leaving Monday some time. It was definitely worth the drive to see something that huge. It dwarfs the UPS 727 that was next to it. The funny thing is when I got home there was a show on the travel channel talking it.

User currently offlineArtsyman From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 4741 posts, RR: 42
Reply 15, posted (9 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 1391 times:

I took a picture of it on the cargo apron, but it is fairly distant as you cannot get very close these days

Jer

User currently offlineBigB From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 593 posts, RR: 3
Reply 16, posted (9 years 6 months 1 week 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 1337 times:

Artsyman, what time where ya there? I was ther around 4:30


ETSN Baber, USN
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