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

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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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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