Ozzy's favourite sunt plane AN225.
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 4:25 amWatching the local news last night and an item on the Shoebox Appeal, a charity that sends shoeboxes full of presents to needy children all over the world. This years appeal was for the Ukraine. They showed some footage of children on the ramp of an aircraft loading these shoeboxes into the belly of an extremely large aircraft. The shot pulled back as the reporter explained that the aircraft was the biggest in the world. Low and behold they showed the AN225 ....... Location EGNX (East Midlands). They then went on to show a cockpit shot and revealed that the aircraft would be taking off at 08.00 this morning.
Soooooo I braved a 6am alarm, the elements, poor light and a less than adiquate camera to DO MY SIMV DUTY and with probably 2000 others went to get some shots.
Here we have the only two shots that were good enough to post.
All the rest of the shots were too blurred due to the poor light but at least I can say I've seen it for real.
EDIT : As a sideline this was the first commercial flight of the AN225 from the UK.
Soooooo I braved a 6am alarm, the elements, poor light and a less than adiquate camera to DO MY SIMV DUTY and with probably 2000 others went to get some shots.
Here we have the only two shots that were good enough to post.
All the rest of the shots were too blurred due to the poor light but at least I can say I've seen it for real.
EDIT : As a sideline this was the first commercial flight of the AN225 from the UK.
