If you're an aviation fan, you've probably heard of the Antonov An-225 "Mriya." This jet was once the world's largest, powered by its six huge turbofan engines. However, the jet made the news in 2022 ...

It will forever be known as the AN-225 Mriya, and for more than three decades it has been the world’s largest aircraft in terms of payload. It set some 240 world records, many of them still unbeaten, ...

This is what happens when you are a bit too close to an An-225 Mriya. Designed at the end of Cold War to carry the Soviet “Buran” space shuttle and parts of the “Energiya” carrier-rocket between space ...

The aircraft is an Antonov An-225, conceived by Soviet engineers in the dying days of the Cold War as a gigantic, gravity-defying workhorse that would help communism’s ongoing race into space and ...

Antonov AN -225 Mriya, specially built to undertake transcontinental route airlifting load between 180-230 tonnes, lands in Hyderabad. Mumbai: The world's largest cargo aircraft, Antonov AN -225 Mriya ...

The images of the wrecked Antonov AN-225 are now an indelible memory for aviation enthusiasts worldwide. Built in the 1980s to ferry the Soviet space shuttle, the plane got a second life after the ...

A plane with a wingspan as wide as the pitch at Croke Park has landed in Ireland this afternoon, Wednesday. The massive six-engine Antonov An-225 ‘Mriya’, the world’s largest aircraft, was carrying ...

Plans are being made to rebuild the world's largest plane first destroyed by Russian forces in the early days of its invasion of Ukraine -- though its manufacturer says such a goal remains far off.