러시아 공습에 세계 최대 수송기 우크라 AN-225 파괴
CNN 등 외신에 따르면 우크라이나 정부는 28일(현지시간) 공식 트위터를 통해 러시아의 공습으로 우크라이나 키예프 인근 공항에 있던 세계 최대 화물기 안토노프 AN-225 므리야가 파괴됐다고 밝혔다.
므리야는 우크라이나어로 ‘꿈’을 의미하며 키예프 북서쪽의 군사 요충지인 호스토멜 지역에 보관돼 있었다. 러시아군은 격전 끝에 지난 24일 이 지역 공군기지를 장악했다. 미 항공우주국(NASA·나사)도 해당 격납고를 포함한 공항 내 여러 곳에서 발생한 화재를 감지했다. AN-225가 보관된 격납고는 전날 오전 11시13분에 화재가 감지됐다.
다만 공항에서 발생한 화재가 군사공격으로 인한 것인지는 명확하지 않다고 CNN은 전했다.
https://www.donga.com/news/Inter/article/all/20220228/112073217/1
Ukraine made Antonov AN-225 was burnt in Russian attack, local media cite regional official.
As a result of second air attack by Russian troops on the Hostomel (Gostomel) airport near #Kyiv, the world’s biggest aircraft Antonov An-225 looks to have been destroyed.
Maxar satellite image shows the damaged hangar of the Antonov An-225 Mriya.
The Antonov An-225 Mriya (Ukrainian: Антонов Ан-225 Мрія, NATO reporting name: 'Cossack') is a strategic airlift transport aircraft built by the Antonov Design Bureau, USSR. It is the world's largest fixed-wing aircraft. The design was an enlargement of the successful An-124 Ruslan.
The An-225 is commercially available for flying over-sized payloads due to the unique size of its cargo deck. Currently there is only one aircraft operating. MTOW: 640,000kg.
https://skybrary.aero/aircraft/a225
안토노브 에어라인 트위터 : https://twitter.com/airlinesantonov
site.Date publish: 27.02.2022
Russians destroy An-225 "Mriya", it will be restored at the expense of the occupant
Russian occupiers destroyed the flagship of Ukrainian aviation — the legendary An-225 "Mriya". This happened at the Antonov airfield in Gostomel near Kyiv, where the plane was. It will cost over 3 bln USD to restore the plane, the restoration shall be time consuming.
Ukraine will make every effort to ensure that the aggressor state pays for these works.
Russia has hit the Mriya as a symbol of Ukraine’s aviation capabilities. An-225 "Mriya" — avia giant, which holds records for transportation of biggest commercial cargo and longest and heaviest in the history of aviation monoloading, lifting capacity. Unfortunately, these options are lost today, however they will be definitely restored. The occupiers destroyed the airplane, but they won’t be able to destroy our common dream. Mriya will definitely be reborn. The restoration is estimated to take over 3 bln USD = 3조6000억원 and over 5 years. 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.
Russia has destroyed our "Mriya" ( laterally translated as “lathe “dream”), but the dream of Ukraine to get free from the occupier cannot be destroyed. We will fight for our land and our home until we win. And after the victory, we will definitely finish our new "Mriya", which has been waiting for this in a safe place for many years. Everything will be Ukraine!” Yuriy Husyev said, General Director of Ukroboronprom.
At the time of invasion, the AN-225 Mriya was under repair at Gostomel Airport, so it did not have time to leave Ukraine.
https://ukroboronprom.com.ua/en/news/rosiyani-znishhili-an-225-mriya-vona-bude-vidnovlena-za-kosti-okupanta
Paul Byrne, an associate professor of Earth and Planetary Science at Washington University in St. Louis, tweeted some recent satellite pictures of the hangar that houses the giant one-of-a-kind aircraft at Gostomel Airport in northern Ukraine. They show much less devastation than earlier views indicated. He took the liberty of superimposing the planform of Mriya on the fire-damaged hangar and says it may not be as bad as we first thought.
“Don’t count the #An225 out just yet—I’ve superposed this drawing onto what seems to be the jet’s exposed tailplane, seen in this image posted earlier by @CSBiggers,” he tweeted on Monday. “Although there’s substantial damage to the hangar, most of the airframe is under the undamaged section.” The image shows that rather than being consumed by fire, the steel frame open-ended shelter (not an enclosed hangar) suffered damage to just one corner of the structure. Presumably, if the aircraft itself had caught fire, the structure over it would have shown damage. “Of course, we won’t know until photos from ground level turn up—and even if the airframe escaped the worst of the damage it’s still entirely possible it’s no longer airworthy,” he tweeted. “But it’s also possible most of the aircraft, at least structurally, is undamaged. At least, I hope so.”
https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/satellite-photos-give-hope-an-225-might-have-survived/
https://twitter.com/ThePlanetaryGuy/status/1498496132821004289
The AN-225 was originally developed to transport the Energiya carrier-rocket and Buran space shuttle between space facilities in the former Soviet Union. It made its first flight on December 21, 1988.
*The Antonov An-225, also known as ‘Mriya’ (meaning ‘dream’), was built by the USSR (within the Ukrainian SSR) in the 1980s. At the time, the USSR was developing a reusable space vehicle known as Buran - similar to the US Space Shuttle. Construction of the Buran spacecraft began in 1980, and it flew once only in 1988. It was launched using a single-use rocket called ‘Energia.’ Just like the US Space Shuttle, Buran needed to be moved from the construction site to its launch area and recovered after its return. The An-225 was designed and built for this purpose. It could transport the Buran spacecraft on top of its fuselage, with internal space used for parts of the rocket. (https://simpleflying.com/worlds-heaviest-plane-story/)
The AN-225 entered commercial service in 2001. Since then, it has operated flights all over the world carrying cargoes such as electrical transformers and mobile power generators. It also continues to support worldwide peacekeeping and humanitarian operations.
The aircraft’s service life has been extended, meaning that the AN-225 will remain in operation until at least 2033.
Based on Antonov's AN-124 design, the AN-225 saw fuselage barrel extensions added fore and aft of the wings. The An-225 also uses the AN-124-100’s nose gear, which allows it to ‘kneel’ so that cargo can be easily loaded and unloaded. However, unlike the AN-124-100, which has a rear cargo door and ramp, the AN-225’s empennage design was changed from a single vertical stabilizer, to a twin tail with an oversized, swept-back horizontal stabilizer. This twin tail enabled the aircraft to carry large, heavy external loads, which would normally disturb the airflow around a conventional tail.
The AN-225’s cargo compartment can be pressurized, extending the aircraft’s transport capabilities. Its onboard cargo handling equipment, plus the design of the forward cargo door and its integral ramp, also ensure quick and easy loading/unloading operations.
The AN-225 is called ‘Mriya’, meaning ‘Dream’ in Ukrainian. It has 242 world records to its name and is the inspiration for Antonov Airlines’ slogan: “No other name carries more weight”.
Maximum load : 250000kg, Cargo cabin : 43.3 x 6.4 x 4.4m
https://www.antonov.com/en/history/an-225-mriya
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Antonov An-225:
World's biggest unfinished airplane lies hidden in warehouse
Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) — On the outskirts of Kiev, somewhere between the city's Nyvky and Sviatoshyn metro stations, sits a drab industrial building that you could drive past a thousand times without guessing it contains an extraordinary secret.
Inside can be found the unfinished chapter of one of the greatest feats of Soviet aviation ever conceived. The only clue is the building's size. It's gargantuan.
It needs to be. Because it contains something equally vast -- the largest airplane that was never completed.
The aircraft is an Antonov An-225, conceived by Soviet engineers in the dying days of the Cold War as a gigantic, gravity-defying workhorse that would help communism's ongoing race into space and assert the East's dominance of the skies.
Only one An-225 was ever built by the Kiev-based Antonov company, which came up with the design. Romantically named Mriya, (Ukranian for dream), it first took flight in 1988 and has been in service ever since, drawing crowds of admirers wherever it spreads its huge wings.
Construction was begun on a second plane, a sister for this aerial leviathan. But while Mriya is breaking world records in the skies, her twin still lies in pieces, only able to dream about leaving the ground.
The fate of Mriya's hidden sister is a fascinating story about big ambitions and even bigger frustrations caught up in the turbulent history of modern Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The story isn't over though. Antonov remains optimistic it'll get the second An-225 off the ground.
It recently granted CNN Travel an exclusive tour of the half-built aircraft, an intriuging glimpse at the legacy of one of the marvels of the modern aviation world.
Reaching the unfinished An-225's hangar involves being escorted by car through the vast industrial landscape west of Kiev that Antonov occupies. Entering the building is like stepping into a cathedral of mechanics -- it's surprisingly calm and tranquil.
The cavernous, endless space swallows up the machinery and airplane parts within. Workers can occasionally be glimpsed in the distance, but the sound of their activity is lost, absorbed by the giant metallic structure.
Towering over everything is the massive fuselage of the unfinished An-225. It's a beast of a thing. If ever completed, it will have a length of 84 meters (276 feet) -- a whole 9 meters longer than the world's largest passenger aircraft, the Airbus A380 superjumbo.
It's an impressive sight, although it is slightly depressing to see this potentially majestic airplane in pieces. The wings that would give it a span of 88.4 meters are unattached, stretching off to one side. The nose gear, a mechanism the size of a house, is also nearby.
So how did it get here?
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.
While its manufacturer Antonov successfully transitioned from communism to capitalism, the end of Soviet funding for the ambitious megaplane project meant the unfinished aircraft was in limbo.
The changing geopolitical landscape meant that Mriya was no longer relevant. With the technological rivalry of the two global superpowers ending abruptly, the race to build bigger and more powerful engineering status symbols was at an end.
The An-225's impressive capabilities suddenly were deemed excessive for the modern aviation world -- and certainly one gargantuan aircraft was enough. With very few oversized payloads needing transportation, another Antonov, the 150-tonne capacity An-124 Ruslan, was doing most of the work.
Furthermore, when Ukraine was plunged into a revolution in 2014 that set it at odds with Russia, it lost a key supplier of parts and equipment, putting another question mark over the second An-225's future.
Antonov, however, says finishing the build should be relatively simple.
Growing private sector interest in space exploration, tourism and communications -- and the prospect of heavy payloads in need of transportation -- may yet decide the aircraft's fate.
"When there is a need to solve such a problem, there will be a demand for the completion of the second aircraft and the investors will appear," says Gennadiy Silchenko, Antonov's An-225 program director.
* 실첸코는 안토노프의 AN-225의 프로그램 책임자
Today, the second An-225 is about 70% completed. All the essential components of its superstructure have been manufactured, including the fuselage, wings, nose gear and tail.
Surveying the giant jigsaw puzzle of airplane parts, Silchenko insists they could be quickly assembled should sufficient funding -- between $250 million and $350 million -- arrive.
Once the investment is in, he says, the existing parts will be connected, the control panel developed and the horizontal stabilizer finished. Then the second An-225 would be ready for conquering the skies.
Because it's been kept in a state of conservation, Silchenko adds, the completed aircraft will be as-new, with no limitations on its capabilities.
Assembly nearly happened in 2016, when China expressed an interest in completing the construction, but because of difficulties of transporting the aircraft parts to Chinese soil, it never happened. --> 중국의 관심
Silchenko says that while the company is still open for different options, the aircraft could be successfully put together and completed only in Kiev.
Should it ever leave Kiev, the second An-225 would certainly cause a sensation -- if the adulation of its sister aircraft is anything to go by.
Because of its design and size, Mriya has a cult following among plane lovers who frequently gather to see it land and take off during commercial flights.
A crowd of more than 15,000 spectators came to Perth Airport in western Australia to witness the plane arrive during a visit in May 2016.
Among reasons for its popularity are the mind-blowing 240 world records the An-225 holds, including transportation of the heaviest commercial cargo and carrying the largest single piece of cargo.
It's also won hearts for participating in humanitarian operations. In 2010, it transported 110 tonnes of equipment and supplies to the Dominican Republic to help with relief efforts in neighboring Haiti after a devastating earthquake.
Needless to say, Mriya has also come to the attention of Hollywood. A CGI-generated aircraft inspired by the An-225 appeared in sci-fi apocalypse movie "2012." A similar rendering starred alongside Vin Diesel in "Fast and Furious 6." The airplane also served as the inspiration for Jetstorm, a shape-shifting robot in the 2007 "Transformers" film.
With performances like that, maybe an encore is overdue.
The soviet aviation landscape
While many readers are intimately familiar with Boeing and Airbus' early years, the soviet civil aviation landscape maybe a little more obscure to most. Now you will notice this author used the word civil, not commercial, to describe the USSR run-enterprise. This is because it wasn't a commercial aviation space but rather a state effort to compete with the west.
When it came to aircraft, Soviet-era planes followed the critical design principle set by Andrey Tupolev - designing aircraft for both civil and military use. Thus most airframes from the era seem less of a passenger aircraft and more a troop transport. At least until 1972, when the Tu-154 arrived on the scene.
TV russa mostra primeiras imagens do Antonov An-225 completamente destruído - Metropoles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TleWGD03YY
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