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For the sixth time, the world’s largest plane visited our country on Wednesday. This is the Antonov AN-225 Mriya that landed in Athens on Wednesday, May 13. The beastly Ukrainian-made Soviet aircraft was loaded with medical supplies from China.
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The Mriya is a transport aircraft built by Antonov in 1988 in the Soviet Union and was designed to transport the Buran space shuttle and is an enlargement of the An-124 Ruslan. (Mriya (Μρiя) in Ukrainian means dream). The Antonov An-225 is available for heavy-duty commercial transport due to the large interior space of its fuselage.
It has larger wings and six Ivchenko Progress D-18T engines. Its landing gear system, which consists of 32 wheels, is also impressive. The wheels of the muzzle can be lowered in order to facilitate the loading / unloading from the front.
The An-225 can carry very heavy and bulky loads of 250,000 kg internally or loads of up to 200,000 kg externally on its back. It can carry internal loads up to 70m long.
