RA82080 AN124-100 Ruslan Polet Flight MAN EGGC

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RA82080 AN124-100 Ruslan Polet Flight MAN EGGC
RA82080 AN124-100 Ruslan Polet Flight MAN EGGC

1 Polet Flight was an airline which flew the Antonov An-124 Ruslan, the world's highest gross weight cargo airplane which specialises in oversized freight.

2 The Antonov An-124 Ruslan (Russian: Антонов Ан-124 Руслан, lit. 'Ruslan'; NATO reporting name: Condor) is a large, strategic airlift, four-engined aircraft that was designed in the 1980s by the Antonov design bureau in the Ukrainian SSR, then part of the Soviet Union (USSR). The An-124 is the world's 2nd heaviest gross weight production cargo airplane and heaviest operating cargo aircraft, behind the destroyed one-off Antonov An-225 Mriya (a greatly enlarged design based on the An-124) and the Boeing 747- The An-124 remains the largest military transport aircraft in service.[ The lead designer of the An-124 (and the An-225) was Viktor Tolmachev.

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