Outstanding Ukrainian Planes
- Antonov An-2 recently has been included in the Guiness Book of Records as the only plane that's been in production for 70 years!! Unfortunately, some...
Ukraine Can Fly
Igor Sikorsky was born in Kyiv and before immigrating to the United States and founding Sikorsky Aicraft Corporation there, became famous by building...
Ivan Kozhedub, a Ukrainian, was the highest scoring Allied and Soviet fighter pilot of...
Unfortunately, after World War II, he remained in the military and went on to command the 324th Fighter Aviation Division during...
The largest pre-WW1 plane – Sikorsky’s S-22 ‘Ilya Muromets’ – made its maiden flight...
Igor Sikorsky flew "Ilya Muromets" plane personally from Petersburg to his native Kyiv setting several world records. As it turns out...
Guinness record setter Antonov An-2 plane
"Although not the largest biplanes ever, the biggest double-wing aircraft currently in common use is the Antonov An-2 / An-3, which has a...
Igor Sikorsky set a world speed record of 111 km per hour on his...
Igor Sikorsky started construction
of the first S-6 was in August 1911.
The biplane was powered by a 100 hp Argus 4-cylinder water-cooled engine.
The...
Antonov Airlines transports two tracked crushing machines from the UK to Gabon
Antonov Airlines transported two tracked crushing machines from @EMA_Airport in the UK to Franceville Airport in Gabon in an AN-124-100....
How Australia Welcomed ‘Sky Monster’ – AN-225 Mriya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX_W_rR5J6w&t=219s
Largest Aviation Museum in Eastern Europe
CNN ranked it as # 6 in the WORLD actually.
Ahead are only Aviation museums in France (1), UK (1) and the USA (3).
"This museum houses one...
Antonov helps out Boeing in the extreme freezing conditions
Ukrainian AN-124 "Ruslan" made a flight from Zurich, Switzerland to Canadian Iqaluit with an engine for Boeing-777 which had to make...
