The first powered plane flight, performed by the Wright Brothers over the windswept beach of North Carolina’s Kitty Hawk in 1903, covered 120 feet. That historic flight would fit entirely in the cargo ...

Because of its size, pilots need special training to cope with the challenges of maneuvering the An-225. One of the airplane’s quirks is its ability to perform a so-called “elephant dance,” a term ...

The one-of-a-kind Antonov An-225 lifts off from Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in 2005. When you need to move 250 tons to another continent, demand the Mriya; no other airplane can do it. When Monika ...

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 ...

On the outskirts of Kiev, somewhere between the city’s Nyvky and Sviatoshyn metro stations, sits a drab industrial building that you could drive past a thousand times without guessing it contains an ...