Unveiling the engineering marvel behind the world's largest aircraft: a story of power, redundancy, and aerodynamic ingenuity ...

An aviation legend and one-off still-functional aircraft has been lost in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict: Mriya, the Antonov AN-225 cargo plane, has been destroyed by the Russian military. The ...

Xbox Game Studios has released a new update for Microsoft Flight Simulator as they have added the Antonov An-225 Mriya Aircraft to the game. This update is tied to the ongoing digital preservation of ...

Something that probably unites most Hackaday readers is a love of machines, particularly unique or interesting ones. In the world of aircraft for example, we’ve run several stories about those which ...

The Antonov AN-225 “Mriya” was more than just an aircraft – it was a moving monument to human engineering. With six massive ...

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 ...

The one and only Antonov An-225 Mriya has been confirmed to have been destroyed in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. While the aircraft's level of destruction is still unknown, a video report has given us ...

The sheared nose cone of the Antonov An-225 cargo plane towers over Yevhen Bashynsky. Affectionately known as the Mriya, or “Dream,” the leviathan plane was the pride of Ukraine and of 38-year-old ...

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 ...

Antonov is marking the 30 th anniversary of the maiden flight of its unique An-225, as it prepares to surrender – possibly – its title of the world’s largest aircraft to another six-engined giant. For ...

The only An-225 Mriya was destroyed during the early stages of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Antonov now wants to restore it but needs funds. As everybody knows by now, the only An-225 Mriya (NATO ...

Pyotr Balabuyev, former long-time chief of Ukraine’s Antonov Scientific and Technical Complex, has died in Kiev at the age of 76. Balabuyev began working at Antonov as an engineer in 1954. After ...