On Sunday, November 9, 2003, at 12:09 PM, lafrance@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > World's largest plane lands at Hopkins Airport > POSTED: Sunday, November 09, 2003 12:51:41 PM > UPDATED: Sunday, November 09, 2003 12:51:41 PM > > CLEVELAND -- One of the world's largest planes landed Sunday morning > at Hopkins. > > It's a Russian made AN 225. Wow! I didn't know either of the An-225s ("Mriya") were operational! I thought one was in mothballs (the original one, built for the Buran shuttle), and the other one only 75% complete at the factory in Ukraine. -- Michael C. Berch mcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx