Wings Above the Planet: The History of Antonov Airlines
The Ukraine based Antonov Company had its origins in the Soviet era Antonov Design Bureau which latterly had been working on large transport aircraft. Created in the late 1980s in the turbulent post-Soviet era, the new company began to focus on this aspect of the international aviation market. Antonov Airlines was the first to offer the services of the most capable heavy-lift aircraft in serial production, the An-124 Ruslan, laying the foundations for a new sector of the market, the transportation of oversized and super-heavy cargoes
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Wings Above the Planet: The History of Antonov Airlines
The Ukraine based Antonov Company had its origins in the Soviet era Antonov Design Bureau which latterly had been working on large transport aircraft. Created in the late 1980s in the turbulent post-Soviet era, the new company began to focus on this aspect of the international aviation market. Antonov Airlines was the first to offer the services of the most capable heavy-lift aircraft in serial production, the An-124 Ruslan, laying the foundations for a new sector of the market, the transportation of oversized and super-heavy cargoes
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Wings Above the Planet: The History of Antonov Airlines

Wings Above the Planet: The History of Antonov Airlines

by Andrii Sovenko
Wings Above the Planet: The History of Antonov Airlines

Wings Above the Planet: The History of Antonov Airlines

by Andrii Sovenko

Overview

The Ukraine based Antonov Company had its origins in the Soviet era Antonov Design Bureau which latterly had been working on large transport aircraft. Created in the late 1980s in the turbulent post-Soviet era, the new company began to focus on this aspect of the international aviation market. Antonov Airlines was the first to offer the services of the most capable heavy-lift aircraft in serial production, the An-124 Ruslan, laying the foundations for a new sector of the market, the transportation of oversized and super-heavy cargoes

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780954889630
Publisher: Crecy
Publication date: 05/01/2019
Edition description: 9780th ed.
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 8.27(w) x 11.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Graduating from aviation university in 1987, Andrii Sovenko has been working for the Antonov company for 30 years now, appointed to different engineer and management positions. He took part in Ruslan's and Mriya's operations as a member of the technical crew. Since 1998, he has been a member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine. He is one of the founders of the Ukranian aviation magazine Aviation and Time. He is the author of more than 250 publications on aviation-related topics.

Read an Excerpt

The Antonov Company (Ukraine) has been specializing in creating transport aircraft for about 70 years. Among the winged machines developed in Kyiv, there are the world’s largest aircraft the An-124 Ruslan and the An-225 Mriya. 30 years ago, the company formed Antonov Airlines, which was the first in the international market to offer the services of transporting oversized and superheavy cargoes with the aforementioned aircraft. This book tells of the challenging journey the airline company has made from being a subdivision of a secret Soviet enterprise to being one of the world leaders in a quite competitive sector of business. For 17 years, the British company, Air Foyle has been the strategic partner of Antonov Airlines in the international market, with the Ukranian company gaining a lot from this partnership.

In this book readers will also find interesting information on the design, production and use of the An-12, An-74, An-124 and An-225 aircraft.

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