The plane could fill both partie's requests, since it holds the Guiness World Record for the highest painting exhibition on the planet. We can admire the enormous plane's graceful final takeoff, and as it splits the never-ending blue skies, it secretly hints at why it was nicknamed "Dream."Īll in all, the surreal flying machine set 127 world aviation records since its maiden flight (see the second video for the inaugural ceremony). Some may say it was a technological masterpiece.
The airlift operator 26 Aviation recently posted the video of the AN-225's last mission on the company's YouTube Channel (the first video at the end of this article). The China-Denmark trip is similar to another of the Dream's record-setters: twelve years ago, in June of 2010, the AN-225 carried two wind turbines from Tianjin, China (eerie coincidence), to Skrydstrup, Denmark. It was to become a historic trip, being the aircraft's last flight before it was shelled while on the ground by the Russian artillery at the very beginning of the Ukraine invasion. Twenty years and five months later, the heavy long-hauler got another job – delivery of humanitarian medical cargo from Tianjin, China, to Billund in Denmark, via Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Entirely coincidental and unrelated, it set the record on a day that would go down in history – September 11, 2001. That's the exact equivalent of four main battle tanks and take that precisely as we put it: the megalodon-class flying heavyweight hauled four war machines over a distance of 560 nm (620 miles, or 1,000 km). The absolute airlift transport record – set by this same plane – is 253.82 tons. Impressive as it may appear, the payload is merely a warm-up for the An-225. Early in February of this year, the colossus of the skies flew from China to Denmark to transport 90 tons of medical equipment.
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