Antonov out of Moffett Field by nelsone
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It's an An-124, I think, and it's used to fly satellites around. It made quite a racket blasting out of Moffett Field in Sunnyvale this morning.
The loss of a Blue Angels pilot today serves to remind us that our fragile meat machines aren't designed to rocket around the stratosphere - flight will always be dangerous and foreign for us.
Comments (4)
Punaguy
These things are huge...I know the can hold some giant sections for rockets. I worked at Moffat back in the 80's referbushing the roof on the blimp hangers there...Most exciting work I've ever done, and the most dangerous. Nice shot of this aircraft! Aloha~
Buffalo1
Antanovs are real big-boys of commercial avaition. I saw one parked out at Houston's Bush Intercontinetal Airport. Cool captures of a huge airplane!
lemonjim
Hard to get the scale and the sound with still images, but it's clear in my imagination! One time, I actually got to hand-crank a truck bed up to one of these at Rochambeau Airport in Cayenne, French Guyana. To offload a satellite. It was very hot and a tad windy in the exhaust from the APUs which comes out, -right below the words "Volga-Dnepr" - and smack in your face. I met the Volga-Dnepr folks and saw the interior. Wow, big!
skyla824
NICE SHOT WHAT A NEAT PLANE