Buran News

The Mriya landed on friday November, 30 on the Toulouse-Blagnac’s airport, near the Toulouse town.

The An-225 came to France to take a military choper EC725 of the Eurocopter company (EADS group), which can carry 29 soldiers and 2 crew members.

It will leave again on saturday to Kuala-Lumpur (Malaisya) throuh Karachi (Pakistan).

May be it will come back at the end of the year.

There are 2 new videos about the OK-GLI shuttle, one on its assembling once arriving at the Sydney’s harbor, and another one on the reception of the exhibition.
Indeed, in february 2000 the test space shuttle OK-GLI is send at Sydney (Darling Harbour) for an exhibition about the Buran project. But due to financial troubles the exhibition is closed few months later.

Another video is about the transportation of Buran models to Baikonur with the VM-T Atlant and AN-225 planes.

The last video is a little presentation of the MIG-25, plane which was used to chase Buran during its descent to the Baikonur airport in November 15, 1988.

Videos:

Antonov Airlines has decided to finished the construction of the second Mriya. In fact, during the 80’s another Mriya was partially built, for the tests, but it was stopped due to lack of money. It seems that the amount of work is too important now for one plane and that’s why they are finishing the second one.

The renovation began in 2006 and should end in 2008.

Here is a new set of pictures.

The first set is about Buran and Mriya.

• Mriya during a flight test with Buran.
• Loading/unloading of Buran at the Baikonur airport
• Buran and Mriya at Le Bourget 1989
• Lift off of the mriya at the end of the Bourget airshow (1989)

The next pictures were taken during the assembly of the Mriya:

The last set of pictures is about the VM-T Atlant transportation plane, we can see it carrying the Buran’s fuselage and the oxygen tank of Energia (MAKC):

At the begining of the month the Antonov 225 was ingured on the front landing gear at the United Arab Emirates (RKT — Ras al Khaymah). We don’t know much more about this trouble.

The Antonov 225 landed today at the Vatry airport (150km at the East of Paris) to carriage freight: 203 tons of pillow blocks (for ships), for the emirats.

New videos about the Antonov Mriya, with an interesting montage showing pictures of the assembling and first flights on the Mriya:

The Antonov 225 Mriya landed at Hosea Kutako international airport (outside the Namibie’s capital city, Windhoek) on Wednesday 10 during the night. Hundreds of people came to catch a glimpse of the world’s biggest plane.

The Mriya landed at Hosea Kutako with 112 tons of freight which consisted of ship reels, wire and other nautical equipment.