World's largest plane destroyed in Ukraine

[NiyamaSinhalaya]

(CNN) — The world's largest aircraft, the Antonov AN-225, has been destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials, generating alarm and sadness among the aviation world in which it occupies almost cult status.
The enormous aircraft, named "Mriya," or "dream" in Ukrainian, was parked at an airfield near Kyiv when it was attacked by "Russian occupants," Ukrainian authorities said, adding that they would rebuild the plane.
"Russia may have destroyed our 'Mriya'. But they will never be able to destroy our dream of a strong, free and democratic European state. We shall prevail!" wrote Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Twitter.

There has been no independent confirmation of the aircraft's destruction. A tweet from the Antonov Company said it could not verify the "technical condition" of the aircraft until it had been inspected by experts.
Ukrainian state defense company Ukroboronprom, which manages Antonov, on Sunday issued a statement saying the aircraft had been destroyed but would be rebuilt at Russia's expense -- a cost it put at $3 billion.
"The restoration is estimated to take over 3 billion USD and over five years," the statement said. "Our task is to ensure that these costs are covered by the Russian Federation, which has caused intentional damage to Ukraine's aviation and the air cargo sector.

 

[priyade]

The story of the An-225 begins back in the 1960 and '70s when the Soviet Union was locked in a race into space with the United States.

By the end of the 1970s, the need arose for transporting large and heavy loads from their places of assembly to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the sprawling spaceport in the deserts of Kazakhstan that was the launchpad for Yuri Gagarin's pioneering space voyage of 1961.
The cargo in question was the Buran spacecraft, the Soviet Union's answer to NASA's Space Shuttle. Since there were at the time no airplanes capable of carrying it, the Antonov company was ordered to develop one.
What emerged was the An-225 megaplane -- the biggest and most powerful airplane ever to successfully enter service. And on December 21, 1988, three years after she was first conceived, Mriya safely transported the Buran spacecraft to Baikonur.


To this day, Mriya remains the heaviest aircraft ever built. Powered by six turbofan engines, she has a maximum payload weight of 250 tonnes, which can be carried inside or on its back. It boasts the largest wingspan of any airplane in operational service.
Because of its size, pilots need special training to cope with the challenges of maneuvering the An-225. One of the airplane's quirks is its ability to perform a so-called "elephant dance," a term used in aviation when the nose gear "kneels" to make cargo loading easier.
With Mriya declared a success, the Soviet Union forged ahead with plans to build three more An-225s. Construction of the second began in 1989 amid equally high expectations.
Then history intervened.
In 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed, taking with it the Soviet space program. In the chaos that followed, production continued on the second plane, but it was eventually halted in 1994.

 

[charithtg]

Harima dukai, BIA aapu welawaka dakka. wonderful aircraft. I hope they rebuild a second one..

 

[Lakshan-Seram]

Aparade mama asama flight ekak.
Gon hetta okata mokata gehuwada manda

 

[navinnuwan]

shit aparade aye me kale okak hadanda puluwan weida dan na

 

[SpaceX]

mokkuda manda

 

[charithtg]

 

[NRTG]

ඇත්තටම දුක හිතුනා ඒකටනම් .....

 

[dmsupun]

මොමොකක්ද් බන් ඕකෙන් ඇති වැඩේ?? ඇයි වෙන හෆ්හන්න බැරි?

 

[malakadss]

මොමොකක්ද් බන් ඕකෙන් ඇති වැඩේ?? ඇයි වෙන හෆ්හන්න බැරි?

හදන්නේ නෑත්තේ ඈයි දන්නේ නෑ. ඒ වුනාට ඕකෙන් සෑහෙන්න වෑඩ නම් ගන්නවා. කාගෝ අදිනවා නේ. කොහොමත් චීනේ අභයාවකාශ සෙට් එක එක්ක මුන් ගිවිසුමක් ගහලා තිබ්බේ මම හිතන්නේ මේ ප්ලේන් තව හදන්න

 

[charithtg]

මොමොකක්ද් බන් ඕකෙන් ඇති වැඩේ?? ඇයි වෙන හෆ්හන්න බැරි?

USSR thiyena kaale thama ooka haduwe. ekak complete kala anike airframe eka (Chassie eka) witharai thiyenne. hadapu eka thama mechchara kal fly kalee. ooke adinna puluwan cargo looke wen eka aircraft ekakin wath adinna baha, not even galaxy C5 of USA. ithin dan ooka naha kiyanne, ara second airframe eka witharai ithuru, eeka hadanna kochchara kal yaida danne naha, salli walata amatharawa, samahara kaali aluthenma hadanna oone, samhara kaali hadanne russia wala, ithin mee thiyena condition ekath ekka monawa weida danne naha. aircraft ekka wada karana unta thama ooke duka theerenne sahenna..

 

[BUW_A]

Duk wenna epa bn. Positive wdihata bluwoth apita pluwn kohen hri loan ekak arn meekata wda loku ekak hdnna