Slavic Giant of the Sky - WORLDS BIGGEST PLANE An-225

www.youtube.com Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov was born on 7 February 1906 in a village near Moscow. His father was civil engineer Kostantyn Kostantynonych Antonov and his mother Hanna Yukhymivna Bykoryukina died when he was nine years old. At the age of 17, Antonov founded the Amateur Aviation Club and the Organization of Friends of the Air Force.In the same year, he designed the OKA-1 Pigeon, a glider that was entered in a competition in Moscow where he won the first prize, a flight on a Junkers 12 aircraft. Antonov was hired as the Chief Designer for Yakovlev Aircraft. In 1940, a new company in his own name was created in Saint Petersburg. After the war Antonov requested Yakovlev to let him work independently, heading Yakovlev's subsidiary design office at the aircraft manufacturing factory at Novosibirsk. On 31 May 1946, Antonov was appointed head of the newly redesignated facility known as the Antonov Aircraft design bureau for Ukraine and Russia. The Antonov An-225 Mriya 'Cossack' is a strategic airlift cargo aircraft, designed by the Russia and Ukraine Antonov Design Bureau. It is the world's heaviest fixed-wing aircraft, is an enlargement of the successful An-124 Ruslan of Russian Air Force and Ukrainian Air Force.

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