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Special Planes : The Antonov 124 , Russian Giant | 16 comments (16 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

I read your previous diary with similar delight, and what an incredible fun set of diaries this is turning out to be! Please go on!

And I had no idea Eindhoven was the European hub for SALIS, although I knew it was important for European military aviation. This must be the Cool Fact learned today.

Are you kidding us? Is the USA (by NATO) paying for Russian airplanes? That would be a hoot!

by Nomad on Sat Mar 25th, 2006 at 11:59:14 AM EST

Re: This is so cool... (4.00 / 4)

Thanks for the nice comment.
The USA doesn't participate in this deal since they have their own capability's. But when needed they hire the An-124 as well: remember the US-spyplane-crash in China back in 1991 ? Their own planes are not big enough : so they needed a AN-124 to bring back that spyplane home.

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Sat Mar 25th, 2006 at 01:42:31 PM EST
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Re: This is so cool... (none / 0)

Sorry, that spyplane story was in 2001, not 1991.
Pictures of the operation here.

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Sun Mar 26th, 2006 at 02:05:04 AM EST
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