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RIP the "dream" plane
Nusa:
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There is a second AN-225 airframe? Why wasnt it finished?
https://simpleflying.com/second-antonov-an-225-finished/
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Cost to complete and long-term operating expense. You'd need to have more spare parts in stock, regular maintenance plan, trained crew, and enough demand from the market to sustain.
I suspect the need for the plane wasn't SO great that they couldn't get away with just using 1 to meet global demand for heavy lifts and utilizing the 2nd airframe for spares.
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The need was so great even the first one was mothballed for most of the 1990's for lack of purpose. The second one was never finished because it never made economic sense to potential financial backers to spend a very large sum to finish it.
cdev:
$9.95 an hour is so little no wonder they didn't get decent plushie programmers for that. Not even from India. How could they ever?
Black Phoenix:
--- Quote from: Nusa on April 21, 2022, 01:18:57 am ---
--- Quote from: HuronKing on April 20, 2022, 07:52:16 pm ---
--- Quote from: cdev on April 19, 2022, 03:29:45 pm ---
There is a second AN-225 airframe? Why wasnt it finished?
https://simpleflying.com/second-antonov-an-225-finished/
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Cost to complete and long-term operating expense. You'd need to have more spare parts in stock, regular maintenance plan, trained crew, and enough demand from the market to sustain.
I suspect the need for the plane wasn't SO great that they couldn't get away with just using 1 to meet global demand for heavy lifts and utilizing the 2nd airframe for spares.
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The need was so great even the first one was mothballed for most of the 1990's for lack of purpose. The second one was never finished because it never made economic sense to potential financial backers to spend a very large sum to finish it.
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Kinda like the A380 project. When it started to be developed the outlook was different of now. Now most of them are being decommissioned because they are too big, the flying industry and customers changed their approach in how flights and people move around.
Airbus released their Neo series, who basically are old models but with aerodynamic and mechanical improvements for fuel saving and extra range, companies fly their airplanes slower than in the 90s, customers look for the cheapest flight possible, don't care if they have to make 2 or 3 stopovers for the cheapest possible.
Then you got the increase of prices of fuel, low cost companies who undercut most of the big ones by having everything as optional and extra on the ticket. Wanna some water while on board, pay extra. Want to have a bulk luggage? Pay. I remember even reading that some wanted to start charging the use of the toilets...
Concorde? Airbus Beluga? Antonov AN-225? Airbus A380? All past glories of ingenuity and proof that men are capable of the biggest engineering marvels.
SiliconWizard:
The A380 is an example of not quite good fit to actual market indeed, but there's still a wide gap with something like the AN-225. The A380 while not being a completely right fit certainly had a lot of potential uses. The AN-225 never had a lot of uses to begin with.
And, I don't know what you're talking about when mentioning the Beluga. It's still useful and operating. Absolutely not "past glory".
james_s:
There are not a lot of uses for the AN-225 which is why there were never a lot of them built, but there are uses, for which nothing else will do. I don't think there will ever be a need for a large fleet of them but one or two could certainly be useful.
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