AN-124 rally car

Wild stuff, eh? I remember our jaws hitting the tarmacadam at Paris in-'88 or 89?-long time ago- when the An-225 showed up with Buran on top, landed, and turned off to taxi off across the notoriously mushy LeBourget turf infield! Who needs stink'in pavement!
 
They have a different approach to flying over there. Back in 1988 Antonov were displaying the An-124 at Farnborough, but blew one of the engines. They used an An-22 to fly in a replacement engine; well, the pilot made one of the most interesting landings seen at Farnborough!! He got his approach totally wrong, overshot the main runway and started to line up on one of the cross runways; this was, rather alarmingly, cordoned off & being used as a car park! The tower reconfirmed the correct runway heading, so he made a gentle turn to get back on course .... well, look at the photos on these two links!!

http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/272450.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/philbky/5746463324/in/photostream/
 
Some of the things your average Russian cargo pilot would do will easily scare the crap out of most people. I'd say they're part luck, part skill, part drive to get the job done and partially nuts. Not all proportions are equal. :icon_lol:
 
Railrunner130 said:
Some of the things your average Russian cargo pilot would do will easily scare the crap out of most people. I'd say they're part luck, part skill, part drive to get the job done and partially nuts. Not all proportions are equal. :icon_lol:
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What, like this ......

 
Could and would are two different things. I really wouldn't try off-roading a C-5. If it gets stuck, pulling it out most likely would require significant assets to be brought in to move it. And that would lead to several people losing their wings.

Even though the C-17 was theoretically designed to do that, the results would be almost the same as the C-5 and definitely the same as the C-5 crew.
 
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