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Gelio (Степанов Слава) - An-225 Mriya is the world’s largest aircraft (English version)
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With six jet engines this is one "whale" of a aircraft!
It has 32 wheels...which reminds me of when I had just graduated from undergraduate college and was working for a US Congressman in Washington, DC, waiting for my Fall, 1962 USAF Commissioning Program (Officer Training School) to start in November of that year.
I met South Carolina Congressman Mendell Rivers, then Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Rivers had just been to a test flight of the Air Force's new military equivalent of the now old Boeing 707. When that USAF version (test model) of the 707 landed, some of the main frame area landing gear (wheels) came off and rolled off the runway to the side.
Congressman Rivers was immediately confronted by a military affairs reporter from the NEW YORK TIMES yelling at him (Rivers) that the Air Force has just landed a "huge boondoggle wasting hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars."
To which Congressman Rivers replied: "Hell son, everything is fine. Don't you see all those other wheels? The fact that only two side by side wheels came off proves that we have "more than enough wheels" to land and take off with!"
At the time of Congressman Rivers, D-SC, telling me this tale I was a young staff assistant to the late US Congressman Armistead Selden, D-Alabama, who was the newly elected in summer 1962 Majority Whip of the US House of Representatives.
Gelio (Степанов Слава) - An-225 Mriya is the world’s largest aircraft (English version)
You may have to copy and paste to open.
With six jet engines this is one "whale" of a aircraft!
It has 32 wheels...which reminds me of when I had just graduated from undergraduate college and was working for a US Congressman in Washington, DC, waiting for my Fall, 1962 USAF Commissioning Program (Officer Training School) to start in November of that year.
I met South Carolina Congressman Mendell Rivers, then Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Rivers had just been to a test flight of the Air Force's new military equivalent of the now old Boeing 707. When that USAF version (test model) of the 707 landed, some of the main frame area landing gear (wheels) came off and rolled off the runway to the side.
Congressman Rivers was immediately confronted by a military affairs reporter from the NEW YORK TIMES yelling at him (Rivers) that the Air Force has just landed a "huge boondoggle wasting hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars."
To which Congressman Rivers replied: "Hell son, everything is fine. Don't you see all those other wheels? The fact that only two side by side wheels came off proves that we have "more than enough wheels" to land and take off with!"
At the time of Congressman Rivers, D-SC, telling me this tale I was a young staff assistant to the late US Congressman Armistead Selden, D-Alabama, who was the newly elected in summer 1962 Majority Whip of the US House of Representatives.
