If you're an aviation fan, you've probably heard of the Antonov An-225 "Mriya." This jet was once ... 225 became the world's largest cargo plane, how big its capacity was, its current fate ...

Mriya’s pressurized cargo hold has a 46,000-cubic-foot capacity. While Antonov hasn’t disclosed yet what upgrades the aircraft received ... to appreciate the big bird. Eric Adams Eric Adams ...

For more than three decades the An-225 Mriya reigned as the largest airplane in the world. [Shutterstock] Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer Antonov is rebuilding the iconic An-225 Mriya, the world ...

In 1976, the Soviet authorities began creating a reusable space system called Energia-Buran. It included the heavy-class launch vehicle Energia and the orbital ship Buran. The latter began to be ...

Antonov claims the plane is 60–70 percent complete ... Ukraine would cost an approximately $411 billion. As big as the Mriya was, it’s tiny compared to the rest of the country’s needs.

The sheared nose cone of the Antonov An-225 cargo plane towers over Yevhen Bashynsky. Affectionately known as the Mriya, or “Dream,” the leviathan plane was the pride of Ukraine and of 38-year ...

But it is meant in part as an inspiration, according to executives at the aircraft company that owns it, Antonov. Image Technicians examine of the Mriya’s engines in search for usable parts for ...

Opinions have been repeatedly expressed that the Mriya’s destruction could have been avoided. Back in January, after numerous warnings about a possible Russian invasion, the Germans offered to move ...

The Antonov State Enterprise is building a second An-225 Mriya aircraft after the first one was destroyed by Russian occupiers during the offensive in Kyiv Oblast in February. Source: Acting ...