A cheaper redesign, Interim HOTOL or HOTOL 2, to be launched from the back of a modified Antonov An-225 transport aircraft, was offered by BAe in 1991 but that too was rejected.

* Antonov An-225: 250, 000 kg

Notable airliners – an Antonov An-225 " Mriya "

* Antonov An-225 " Mriya " – the world's largest and heaviest aircraft.

The Antonov An-225 | An-225, world's largest aircraft, also used by cargo airline.

Antonov An-225 and Antonov An-124 are the worlds ' largest aircraft, used for transporting large shipments and oversized cargos.

* Antonov An-225

* December 21 – Antonov An-225 Mriya

* March 22 – An Antonov An-225 Mriya sets a total of 106 world and class records during a 3 hour 30 minute flight.

* May 13 – An Antonov An-225 Mriya carries the Soviet Buran orbiter for the first time.

These flights currently use Boeing 767 aircraft although occasionally an RAF Lockheed TriStar freight aircraft or the Antonov An-225 are employed to bring in large items of freight.

The company uses the only existing Antonov An-225, the world's largest operating aircraft, among its fleet.

The joint operation of the Ukrainian and Russian fleets allow to maximize the utilization of the combined An-124-100 commercial fleet ( seven freighters belong to Antonov Airlines and ten are owned by Volga-Dnepr Airlines ) and the only existing Antonov An-225 — the largest cargo aircraft in the world.

Air Foyle Heavylift was not only responsible for the sales and marketing of charters and leases of Antonov's fleet of Antonov An-124-100, Antonov An-225 and Antonov An-22 heavylift cargo aircraft, but also for their complete commercial and operational management.

Main landing gear on an Antonov An-225

The enormous Ukrainian Antonov An-225 jet cargo aircraft has one of the largest, if not the largest, number of individual wheel / tire assemblies in its landing gear design-with a total of four wheels on the twin-strut nose gear units, and a total of 28 main gear wheel / tire units, adding up to a total of 32 wheels and tires.

Buran orbiter being transported via Antonov An-225 | An-225

# REDIRECT Antonov An-225 Mriya

Antonov An-2 is the largest single-engine biplane ever made, and the longest produced aircraft ever ( since 1947 ; currently produced in China )

The radio call sign of the spacecraft was, referring to the Greek hero Antaeus, but more important, at the time of the flight, however, it was also the name of the largest practicable aircraft, the Soviet Antonov 22, made in Ukraine.

The largest rebellion against the Bolsheviks was led by an SR, Alexander Antonov.

It operates scheduled and charter passenger and cargo services, but specialises in outsize cargo operations using the world's largest fleet of Antonov An-124 aircraft.

As well as being able to serve aircraft as large as an Antonov An-124 ( the largest aeroplane ever mass produced ), the heliport allows it to serve helicopters, alongside fixed wing aircraft.

In February 2010, the airport was host to the world's largest aircraft, the Antonov 225.

Soyuz 6 was given a call sign equivalent to " Antaeus ," which referred to the largest aircraft of the era, the Antonov 22.

Antonov An-225: the largest cargo aircraft.

* Antonov An-124 ( the second largest operating cargo aircraft in the world )

* Antonov An-225 ( the largest and heaviest aircraft in the world )

Men like Chizhevskij and Antonov also came into the spotlight of the communist party by designing aircraft such as the tail-less BOK-5 ( Chizhevskij ) and OKA-33 ( the first ever built by Antonov ) which were designated as " motorized gliders " due to their similarity to popular gliders of the time.

* Antonov An-2-Best selling transport airliner up to the point it was built.

Several aircraft, notably the Boeing YC-14 ( the first modern type to exploit the effect ), have been built to take advantage of this effect, by mounting turbofans on the top of wing to provide high-speed air even at low flying speeds, but to date only one aircraft has gone into production using this system to a major degree, the Antonov An-72 ' Coaler '.

The most numerous plane built in Mielec was the licensed Soviet Antonov An-2 utility biplane, produced from 1960 in different variants.

* Antonov An-124, a large cargo aircraft called the Ruslan, built in Ukraine and Russia

By the late 1970s two Canadian built de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otters had joined the fleet, and the rest of the fleet comprised one DC-3, one Nord 262, two Antonov An-24s and two Fokker F27s.

Already a couple of weeks later, an Antonov cargo plane crossed the border from Sudan and landed at Tiringoulou airport in C. A. R., where it unloaded weapons and about 50 armed men who spread out in the area.

In 2007, Aviation Week & Space Technology reported a total of six aircraft in service: one Antonov An-32 tactical transport, one Cessna 421 Golden Eagle utility aircraft, two Eurocopter SA 365 Dauphin helicopters, one Gulfstream IV VIP aircraft, and one Mil Mi-24 attack helicopter.

* Chairman-Felix Dzerzhynsky, Deputy-Yakov Peters ( initially heading the Petrograd Department ), other members-Shklovsky, Kneyfis, Tseystin, Razmirovich, Kronberg, Khaikina, Karlson, Shauman, Lentovich, Rivkin, Antonov, Delafabr, Tsytkin, Yelena Rozmirovich ( wife of Krylenko ), G. Sverdlov, Bizensky, Yakov Blumkin, Aleksandrovich, Fines, Zaks, Yakov Goldin, Galpershtein, Kniggisen, Martin Latsis ( later transferred to Kyiv ), Deybol, Seyzan, Deybkin, Libert ( chief of jail ), Fogel, Zakis, Shillenkus, Yanson.

* 1997 – A Russian Antonov An-124 cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.

* 1906 – Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer ( d. 1984 )

* 1995 – A Cubana de Aviación Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.

* 1996 – An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people.

* 2006 – A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in Hungary.

Kyrgyzstan Air Company Antonov AN-24 in Jalal-Abad Airport prepares for flight to Bishkek, March 7, 2010.

* Karakol International Airport is linked to Almaty in winters by flights operated by SCAT on Antonov AN-24.

Bulgarian scientist Anton Antonov conducted experiments which show that the conductivity of an object does not influence the resulting images, but that corona discharge formation depends on the distribution of dielectric permittivity.

In 1968, Antonov photographed water droplets using black and white Kirlian photography.

Vadim Antonov, the senior programmer at Demos and the major poster from there until mid-1991, was quite aware of all this, and referred to it frequently in his own postings.

Antonov also contributed some Russian language material for the Jargon File.

Equipment used by the air force included thirty-one MiG-29 Fulcrum aircraft, eight Mi-8 Hip helicopters, five transport aircraft ( including an Antonov An-72 Coaler ), and twenty-five SA-3 Goa / SA-5 Gammon surface-to-air missiles.

As of 2012, the AAF has over 100 refurbished aircraft, which includes a number of C-27A Spartan and Antonov AN-32 military transport aircraft as well as Mi-17 and Mi-24 helicopters.

Types include Italian-made C-27A Spartans and Russian Antonov An-32 transport aircraft as well as Mi-17 troop-carrying helicopters and Mi-35 attack helicopters.

* 1997 – The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en-route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.

* 2000 – A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people.

* 2000 – A chartered Antonov An-26 explodes after takeoff in Northern Angola killing 50.