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World’s Biggest Cargo Plane To Ship Chinese PPE to Quebec - Mirabel Airport
The cargo specialists arranging a massive shipment of personal protective equipment from China for the Quebec government have turned to the world's biggest aircraft to carry the load. The Soviet-era Antonov AN-225 is scheduled to carry what will be the largest single delivery of personal protective equipment (PPE) to Canada later this week to Montreal's Mirabel Airport. The most recent flight plan calls for the huge aircraft to land on Thursday night. (www.fliegerfaust.com) और अधिक...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
That plane is really an engineering marvel.
Well kind of in a way they used western equipment for there avionics in it. And if you look at the engines it takes six little ones to get it in the air.
They had to use "western" avionics in it LIKE ALL aircraft if they wish to fly into the US. And they use 6 52,000 thrust pound engines to "balance the load" for take off and landing. 2 engines are throttled back later.
Always hard to believe it, the A380, the C-5 Galaxy, & C-17 fly
The same airplane (An-225) has landed in Mirabel this morning at 7h30 EDT. It carries PPE from China where the flight originated. Then it stopped in Japan then on to Anchorage AK before arriving at YMX. Normally that shipment is sent by ship but it was urgent. Fantastic to see that airplane twice in less than a month.
I've been paying attention to the flights of the AN-225 recently. They seem to make a lot of flights to Almaty, Kazakhstan and Tianjin, China. I'm not sure what is special about those cities.
Tianjin China is where they are picking up the cargo. I don't know why most other cargo operations are fixated on bigger China airports. Watching 1 of the flights in and did not look busy at all.
If you watch their flight path, they drop south away from Russian airspace and use Almaty as a fuel stopover.
If you watch their flight path, they drop south away from Russian airspace and use Almaty as a fuel stopover.
djames225: I just read the article on fliegerfaust.com website. Quote: The Tianjin airport is the only one where the AN-225 is allowed to land in China. That must be the reason why the company is picking up the cargo in that airport
If I am not mistaken, it is also allowed at Shenzhen Bao'an. But as I stated, I wonder why other cargo charters for PPE etc are not flying into Tianjin.
Dmytro Antonov (D Antonov) has a Youtube channe with flights of this big bird, smaller big bird AN1-24 and the baby bird AN-74
Dmytro Antonov (D Antonov) has a Youtube channe with flights of this big bird, smaller big bird AN1-24 and the baby bird AN-74