Giants of Ukraine




Plane Tales show

Summary: In the world of Slavic folk tales there are giants in Ukraine but as aviators the ones we are interested are the giants that the fabled aircraft designer Oleg Antonov designed. This is his story.<br> <br> The OKA1 glider<br> <br>  <br> <br> Antonov at the Leningrad Polytechnic<br> <br>  <br> <br> The OKA38 Stork<br> <br>  <br> <br> The An-2<br> <br>  <br> <br> The An-12 Cub<br> <br>  <br> <br> The An-24 Coke<br> <br>  <br> <br> The vast An-22 Cock<br> <br>  <br> <br> The huge An-124 Condor<br> <br>  <br> <br> The flight deck of the An-124<br> <br>  <br> <br> The mighty Mryia, An-225, carrying a Buran project space shuttle<br> <br>  <br> <br> The destruction of a dream, the Mryia was a victim of the Russian invaders who recently attacked Ukraine<br> <br>  <br> <br> Oleg Antonov<br> <br>  <br> <br> Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to the Antonov Design Bureau, the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, the Central Design Bureau for Gliders, Arpingstone, Igor Dvurekov, Dmitriy Pichugin, Toshi Aoki, Yevgeny Pashnin, Vasiliy Kob and Дизайнер: А.Безменов.<br> <br>