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RIP the "dream" plane

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Vovk_Z:

--- Quote from: cdev on April 09, 2022, 01:10:25 am --- Most Americans think Antonov means Russian, even though its Ukrainian-developed. SO many of the USSR's best people were Ukrainian.

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'Antonov' itself is a russian surname, and Oleg Antonov itself was russian (he was born near Moskow), but he made his greatest achevments in Ukraine, Kiev, with ukrainians.

langwadt:

--- Quote from: Vovk_Z on April 09, 2022, 08:08:46 pm ---
--- Quote from: cdev on April 09, 2022, 01:10:25 am --- Most Americans think Antonov means Russian, even though its Ukrainian-developed. SO many of the USSR's best people were Ukrainian.

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'Antonov' itself is a russian surname, and Oleg Antonov itself was russian (he was burn near Moskow), but he made his greatest achevments in Ukrain, Kiev, with ukrainians.

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Him and the design bureau  in Kiev but wasn't the parts for the planes build all over the then USSR?

sorta like how Airbus gets parts from all over Europe

Vovk_Z:
It was some cooperation in Soviet Union of cause.
I have to add that the chief designer of An-225 and An-124 was Petro Balabuev, he is Ukrainian.
Wiki
Oleg Antonow was too old and I guess retired at that time (he worked as university lecturer).

tom66:
The chief pilot seems to be Dymtro Antonov, is this just a coincidence or is he descended from the family?  I couldn't find any reference there, but it might explain even more so why he' so attached to these aircraft - they are family to him.

coppercone2:
I think given how the soviet union treated public works, it was SUPPOSED to be part of your family. All types of sacrifices and reallocations were made so that kinda stuff can get built, I don't think it could happen in a democracy as easily.

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