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Flight deck of Antonov AN-225

Sarajevo airport

The UN hired the world's biggest plane, an Antonov 225, to fly freight into Sarajevo. When it arrived I walked out onto the tarmac to shoot some photos and I ran into the crew. One of them invited me to tour the plane, of which he was obviously quite proud. I started shooting pictures on the flight deck and I heard somebody whisper behind me, "There's military secrets up there!" The co-pilot, the one who was showing me around, shot back "Secret from who?!"


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James Mason13-Feb-2013 16:55
The real workhorse of the war was the C130 Hercules.
Andy of Moscow 13-Feb-2013 15:33
This plane is "Antonov 225" or "Mriya", not "AntonOFF".
Some people call it, by mistake "Antonov 224".
This plane was based on Antonov's earlier An-124 or "Ruslan"
It has nothing to do with any foreign designers or Russian immigrants.
Produced in the USSR in Ukraine near Kiev, now in Ulyanovsk, Russia.
A lot of information for this plane on Internet.
But, the real "workhorses" of that war in Sarajevo were IL-76 (Il'yushin design bureau).
I flew, working as flight coordinator for Red Cross, to Sarajevo intensively from Zagreb, carrying humanitarian aid during 1994-95.
I've made more than 100 landings in Sarajevo.