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AN-225

Posted: 31 Mar 2012, 17:15
by bismarck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHuI0Iqq ... re=related

It will take off this evening around 22:00.... I could be there... :roll:

Re: AN-225

Posted: 31 Mar 2012, 17:19
by delbydoo
Don't know if it was the way I was watching it but did it seem to have a bit of a right-hand tilt just before touchdown :?:

Re: AN-225

Posted: 31 Mar 2012, 21:11
by DaleRFU
That is one big bird :shock:

Re: AN-225

Posted: 31 Mar 2012, 22:18
by bismarck
I just got back from Malpensa. :smt003

It's really big!!!
Take-off from 35L at 22:45.

Giorgio

Re: AN-225

Posted: 01 Apr 2012, 03:40
by KevinJarvis
delbydoo wrote:Don't know if it was the way I was watching it but did it seem to have a bit of a right-hand tilt just before touchdown :?:
Bit of a crosswind??

Re: AN-225

Posted: 01 Apr 2012, 10:17
by delbydoo
KevinJarvis wrote:
delbydoo wrote:Don't know if it was the way I was watching it but did it seem to have a bit of a right-hand tilt just before touchdown :?:
Bit of a crosswind??
Either that or a little too much Vodka :oops:

Re: AN-225

Posted: 01 Apr 2012, 18:14
by james84
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Re: AN-225

Posted: 01 Apr 2012, 22:26
by bismarck

Re: AN-225

Posted: 02 Apr 2012, 21:04
by sr01
Giorgio
Pretty cool .The AN225 and the AN124 will sit on the rny. and run their f##king engines, as you saw ,for almost 5 minutes . A real bitch for ATC to control and "your" AN225 must have caused headaches . Not much overshoot protection there with that guy on final .

Re: AN-225

Posted: 02 Apr 2012, 21:42
by Greg
I loved how the alarms went off on the car park after she flew over. That must have been loud!

Sr01 I hear you mate. The famous "request six minutes on the runway" feel like a lifetime while you're juggling with your other traffic. :-D

Re: AN-225

Posted: 02 Apr 2012, 21:49
by delbydoo
Mamm mia indeed! The lights give nothing away as to the size of the thing - you just see the lights moving forward, and you can tell how wide it is, but then it appears out of the darkness and it's like :shock: HUGE!! And yeah, dig the car alarms :lol:

Re: AN-225

Posted: 03 Apr 2012, 08:20
by bismarck
I didn't know it needs 5 minutes for the engines, understood why it stayed there for so long. :roll:
BTW, not a big problem for the ATC at that hour, just a couple of A320 in landing on 35R (as usual), It took off from 35L, no other aircraft in queue.
Unfortunately I can't hear it's noise at full, because I was inside Trerminal 1 on the other side of the airport.
BTW, I can say "I was there" :smt003 :smt003 8)

Giorgio

Re: AN-225

Posted: 03 Apr 2012, 23:34
by MIKE JG
When that thing takes off, it's not a departure, it's an event......