An-124

As I read the lists (also from “Flightpath” vol. 2):

26 in commercial service

19 in Russian Air Force service.

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Thank You! Glad You like them. Well it turns 180 degrees in 150 ft. (at the “start” end of RWY 09R after a “bactrack”) – although they dispatched a couple of “scanners” to get it around the corners. Fair enough! Some years back we had a C-5 stuck in that position across the runway. The USAF had to fly another C-5 up from Ramstein with a tow tractor. They turned 180 in front of the stuck Galaxy (just to make a point!). The stuck C-5 could have used reverse – but that was only permissible in “war-time”.

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P.S. My earlier post about the SAS A330. They turn at the other intersection a little further up the rwy (you get a few extra feet, if needed in an intersection). The A330/340 turns in about the same amount. A 180 degree is allowed with nose wheel steering and outer engine power – but not with brakes on the inner! They skid around like some 3-axel bogie truck.

Great pictures atc pal, thanks for sharing. It’s nice to see close up pictures of aircraft that many of us will never be on the same ramp with.

Pic taken by me from the Stnatsed control tower, ADB An-124 pushing back. What an experience that was to watch take-off! Sorry about the quality, bad weather!

First Antonov Airlines:

1 An-225

7 An-124-100

1 An-22A

3 An-12

(“Flightpath”, Vol.2)

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In this month’s AirlinerWorld it says that the AN124 is going back into production.

What I’m interested in is the stearing, how does it turn corners? What is the radius of it’s turn and what is the maximum turn in degrees of the nose gear?

A great set of pictures, very interesting! I’ll never forget the time I stood there at STN watching one of the Volga An-124’s (once very common to STN) being loaded up with lorries. Not 1, not 2, not 3! But 4 articulated lorries drove on and were engulfed into that huge hold.

Amazing set of pics, very informative – absoloute quality! Many thanks

ADB have 7 plus AN225 and 2nd AN225 being built
Volga have 10
Polyet have 3 I think
1 in Middle East
Libya has 2 but only one delivered other in Kiev

Unless anybody knows different

MYRIA

cool pics, looking at picture number 5 that left outer tyre looks a bit worn, mind you nother strage there as most russian aircraft seem to have worn tyres.

By the early- to mid 1990s 46 had been delivered, with several more being in various stages of assembly at Ulyanovsk. From mid-2000 on, at least one An-124-100 left the plant with possibly more underway. At least one of them crashed on the city of Irkutsk in 1997 when delivering two Su-27 Flankers to Vietnam (which were also lost).

Does someone know any many of those birds are operated in the world?

brilliant pics.

A timid C650 Citation, OY-GGG, sneaks past.

Yes, welcome back, Steve! Right milipede main gears.

That’s a very impressive site

The two nose gear mounts looking aft. The silver rods on the left sides are the spindles, that rotate the gear.

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… like a ferry with as many “clunks” and strange “wheezes”!

Closing the ramp..