Russians are Here

I may have posted this before, but I just can’t resist looking at the size of this plane and then watching it take off like a small commercial plane, is amazing.

And this one is the SMALLER model.

Looking at it from the front you can see the wings hang approximatley 25-30′ as it sits on the ground.Once she starts to rumble down the runway you can see that 30′ wing deflection rise dang near to the top of the fuselage.

Cargo load was 8 new commercial garbage trucks,and it stil flys.

Looks like a P-4 10 pound walleye in spring.

Thanks for sharing old man!

Amazing they can get those things off the ground. Thanks for the pic’s.

Round of Hamms,Pls, for house .

Wonder what kind of gas mileage they get?

I’m sure it’d be measured in gallons per mile, not mpg

Boy I sure hope they aren’t upset about the seat license fees

Russia needs to import garbage trucks?

Is this plane bigger than the one yeltskin/whoever it was showed up with at the msp airport a few years back???

That was huge!

Al

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I’m sure it’d be measured in gallons per mile, not mpg

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I was trying to look up the Gallons Per Hour of the An-124-100. Not easily found.

Pretty cool. Would be neat to see in person!

Is that sucker at MSP right now?

Here are couple more from last summer,when they were hauling Cranes,Front End Loaders, and excavators.
Both ends of the plane open for loading equipment, The crane in the picture is being driven into the nose of the plane.

It’s pretty awesome to see how much eqipment they can put inside.

Un-freakin-real and I thought the C130’s were BIG

I saw this last summer while my road crew was painting by the airport! Seeing it in person is something worth doing seeing before you die! Its hard to imagine something of this size can fly

Found this at http://www.poletairlines.com/AN-124-100.html

Cabin crew: 8-10 people
Technical crew: 10-14 people
Maximum speed: 865km/h (540m/h)
Cruising speed: 800km/h (500m/h)
Flight range with maximum payload: 4500km (2810m)
Maximum take-off weight: 392000kg (862000lb)
Empty weight: 175000kg (385000lb)
Minimum runway length with maximum payload: 3000m (10000ft)
Runway length with normal payload: 2520m (7585ft)
Landing run: 900m (2700ft)
Engine thrust: 4 x 23400kgf
Fuel consumption: 12t/h (3160gal)
Maximum fuel capacity: 214000kg (56000gal)
Inner Dimensions of cargo department; Length x Width x Height: 36,5m x 6,4m x 4,4m (120ft x 21ft x 14.5ft)
Cargo Doors dimensions; Front and Rear: 6,4m x 4,4m (21.1ft x 14.5ft)

No pay at the pump for that pig. 56000 gallons of fuel!

Those are impressive numbers!