AN-225 Departing Nottingham East Midlands Airport tomorrow

[anonymous-user]

There is currently an Antanov 225 Mryia in Nottingham East Midlands Airport.

This is the worlds largest aircraft, six engines in total

I believe it is the only one in the world flying, and was originally designed to carry the Russian Space Shuttle. This is only the third time it has been to the UK.

It should be leaving tomorrow about 8am.

[mybrainhurts]

Did it get lost..?

Who operates it and what's it doing here...?

[Mrs Fish]

Gosh, wonder what it is doing here?

[thebluemonkey]

Aeroflot have a cargo wing (see what I did there ) who run it AFAIK.

[eharding]

Came in delivering clothes apparently, going out with 110 tonnes of childrens charity shoeboxes for distribution in the Ukraine. Or so they say.

[mybrainhurts]

Let's hope we're keeping an eye open for paratroops.....

[Boosted Ls1]

I wonder if it will swing round over Long Eaton, then I could get a look at it from my bedroom

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[Parrot of doom]

Crikey, thats a bit big that is.

[Boosted Ls1]

Jeepers, That's worth seeing. I didn't realise just how big it was. Hope it doesn't drop an engine on my gaff!

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[nevpugh308]

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[anonymous-user]

I read that its not that noisy.

I think it will be taking off to the west.

[FourWheelDrift]

thebluemonkey said:

Aeroflot have a cargo wing (see what I did there ) who run it AFAIK.

Antonov operate it but Air Foyle-HeavyLift use it.

[dieseljohn]

Cool, I'm half tempted to get up early and drive over there to see it take off.

[anonymous-user]

I think the Aeropark is open.

I am still thinking about going to see it.

I would have to leave home at about 5am though

[dieseljohn]

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[TeamD]

Baskets! And I was looking forward to a lie in tomorrow, mind you, I'm sure the kids will be up earlier!

[Eric Mc]

That photo shows it at the Farnborough Air Show in 1990.

[anhamgrimmar]

last time i saw that thing, it was at manchester airport, for operation: christmas child. y'know, make up a shoe box full of goodies, which all get collected and flown to far off places to be donated to orphans.

its a bloody massive thing. if you ever see the footage from about 1995 (ithink) you can see a teenage anhamgrimmar doing starjumps to keep warm. on national tv. oh the shame

[JoolzB]

That's one big plane that, no wonder it needs 6 engines to take off. What length runway does it need to get up enough speed?

[Eric Mc]

Fairly standard runway actually. That big wing helps.