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RIP the "dream" plane
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tom66:
The invaders only know to destroy,  I hope Ukraine can rebuild it.
mariush:
Yeah... RIP...

Excited even big airplane pilots when it landed somewhere:



coppercone2:
they should sell it on Ebay maybe elon musk will fix it or something, a few years in the body shop should have it like new

I guess its not profitable to rebuild (it is a hand me down from soviet union) but it might make for a collectors item (the repair cost might never recoup from commercial operations within the lifespan of the system)

It can also be a form of philanthropy if the airplane is fixed and runs at negative costs to provide disaster relief or something (time to delivery is still critical in disaster management), and any 'ease' it provides to space-related systems could greatly accelerate space-related development and research.. so perhaps someone should think about repairing it even if it looks bad on paper, since it might have some serious benefits to staying around. I would say this is a great example of how far can hurt the scientific-logistics side of things and destroy opportunity for research and development. I think its something along the lines of having a big work bench around (it changes your lab completely).
SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: coppercone2 on April 03, 2022, 06:24:49 pm ---It can also be a form of philanthropy if the airplane is fixed and runs at negative costs to provide disaster relief or something (time to delivery is still critical in disaster management), and any 'ease' it provides to space-related systems could greatly accelerate space-related development and research.. so perhaps someone should think about repairing it even if it looks bad on paper, since it might have some serious benefits to staying around.

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Uh? With the cost of building such a plane, I think you have no idea what we could achieve. ::)
That's one of the reasons there were never more than one to begin with.

Making "icons" survive can have benefits in terms of historic preservation, and we do it all the time. But I'm not too sure the history of the AN-225, and Antonov in general, is really what most people would like to preserve, at least not in this context. Antonov was a product of the USSR. Just a thought.

amyk:
For huge things to be moved between continents, now the only way is to ship - literally. That will take much longer and might even be more expensive than flying it.

I'm sure that even if this one is not rebuilt, there will be some other one that takes its place in hauling such cargo.
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