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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Soviet Airplanes In The USA (was Re: Oklahoma crash)
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Date: 11 Jul 90 02:56:42 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: newave!john@uunet.UU.NET (John A. Weeks III)
>I have also seen two Soviet transport planes this year.  The An-225
>was at Aerospace America.  This plane dwarfs a C-5, but does not have
>the langing capability of the C-5...

Um, "langing"?  Do you mean "landing"?  Can you elaborate on this?
At the Paris Air Show, the An-225 with the Buran orbiter on its back
taxied across the *grass* at a gross weight of a million pounds (after,
however, landing on the concrete).  You don't see many C-5s doing that.

                                         Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                          henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry