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As a political stunt, Polish government has chartered this plane to deliver medical supplies to Poland. What a sight! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnQPcMcGVZ

by artpi 6y ago

As a political stunt, Polish government has chartered this plane to deliver medical supplies to Poland. What a sight! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnQPcMcGVZ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnQPcMcGVZ8 However, the costs were insane - around $3 million . Transporting the same amount of cargo with 777 would cost about $1 milion. But the political stunt was priceless.

naivedevops 6y ago
"The uploader has not made this video available in your country"
- TomMarius 6y ago
  Having countries matter on the internet now feels like going back to the 90's after living in the future for a while. :/
  - nitrogen 6y ago
    The 90s Internet didn't have deliberate region blocks. The future is old, and it is dying.
    - artificial 6y ago
      While the connection speeds of today are hard to give up, I liked having oceans of smaller sites instead of a handful of larger ones with content shared from the others. http://c0rk.tripod.com http://c0rk.tripod.com
moltar 6y ago
Canada too. I think it landed twice in Montreal. https://youtu.be/OGbtUHEYJ3M https://youtu.be/OGbtUHEYJ3M
nuccy 6y ago
Maybe it was a political stunt, but actually there are two justification of that. 1) The volume. The masks and other protective gear is volume-demanding cargo, since the overall density including packing (boxes) is low. The Boeing 777 Freighter (777F) has 518m3 of cargo volume on main deck [1], An-225 has 1200m3 [2], so the price per 1m3 of volume is 1930$ and 2500$ respectively (ratio 1.3). 2) The demand and the quarantine itself. During March-April demand on masks was enormous, everyone tried to buy them, some countries even tried to take over deliveries for other ones. China and many other countries were not accepting flights, so arranging even a single flight was challenging (thats why An-225 was flying through Almaty city that many times when making China-Europe routes, all other airports simply didn't accept any planes for transit and refueling). As a result, one huge plane was much more beneficial than 2-3 smaller ones. [1] https://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/qtr_02_09/article_02_1.html https://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/qtr_... [2] https://www.antonov-airlines.com/our-fleet/an-225 https://www.antonov-airlines.com/our-fleet/an-225 Edit: correcting An-225 cargo volume from 1100m3 to 1200m3 using data from the official website.
- baybal2 6y ago
  Antonov airlines have a much more cheaper, and more available An-124 with 1000m³ useful cargo volume. An even more easily available, and thus cheaper to hire, 747 has 500 to 600m³ volume in different configurations.
  - gambiting 6y ago
    Except again, at the time when this happened everyone raised their prices so that even a single 747 was more than 1/2 price of the antonov. In normal conditions, absolutely, but at the time the demand was at the peak time high. I still think it was a stunt more than anything, but not because of the airplane.
  - nuccy 6y ago
    Yes, An-124 is indeed a good cheaper alternative with comparable capabilities for this kind of cargo, but in March-April it seems there was a high demand on all Antonov fleet [1] plus the PR factor is not playing the last role here. [1] https://www.dw.com/uk/protydiia-koronavirusu-mriia-y-ruslany-zavaleni-zamovlenniamy/a-53095824 https://www.dw.com/uk/protydiia-koronavirusu-mriia-y-ruslany... or https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dw.com%2Fuk%2Fprotydiia-koronavirusu-mriia-y-ruslany-zavaleni-zamovlenniamy%2Fa-53095824 https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

by artpi 6y ago

naivedevops 6y ago

"The uploader has not made this video available in your country"

TomMarius 6y ago
Having countries matter on the internet now feels like going back to the 90's after living in the future for a while. :/
- nitrogen 6y ago
  The 90s Internet didn't have deliberate region blocks. The future is old, and it is dying.
  - artificial 6y ago
    While the connection speeds of today are hard to give up, I liked having oceans of smaller sites instead of a handful of larger ones with content shared from the others. http://c0rk.tripod.com http://c0rk.tripod.com

moltar 6y ago

Canada too. I think it landed twice in Montreal. https://youtu.be/OGbtUHEYJ3M https://youtu.be/OGbtUHEYJ3M

nuccy 6y ago

Maybe it was a political stunt, but actually there are two justification of that. 1) The volume. The masks and other protective gear is volume-demanding cargo, since the overall density including packing (boxes) is low. The Boeing 777 Freighter (777F) has 518m3 of cargo volume on main deck [1], An-225 has 1200m3 [2], so the price per 1m3 of volume is 1930$ and 2500$ respectively (ratio 1.3). 2) The demand and the quarantine itself. During March-April demand on masks was enormous, everyone tried to buy them, some countries even tried to take over deliveries for other ones. China and many other countries were not accepting flights, so arranging even a single flight was challenging (thats why An-225 was flying through Almaty city that many times when making China-Europe routes, all other airports simply didn't accept any planes for transit and refueling). As a result, one huge plane was much more beneficial than 2-3 smaller ones. [1] https://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/qtr_02_09/article_02_1.html https://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/qtr_... [2] https://www.antonov-airlines.com/our-fleet/an-225 https://www.antonov-airlines.com/our-fleet/an-225 Edit: correcting An-225 cargo volume from 1100m3 to 1200m3 using data from the official website.

baybal2 6y ago
Antonov airlines have a much more cheaper, and more available An-124 with 1000m³ useful cargo volume. An even more easily available, and thus cheaper to hire, 747 has 500 to 600m³ volume in different configurations.
- gambiting 6y ago
  Except again, at the time when this happened everyone raised their prices so that even a single 747 was more than 1/2 price of the antonov. In normal conditions, absolutely, but at the time the demand was at the peak time high. I still think it was a stunt more than anything, but not because of the airplane.
- nuccy 6y ago
  Yes, An-124 is indeed a good cheaper alternative with comparable capabilities for this kind of cargo, but in March-April it seems there was a high demand on all Antonov fleet [1] plus the PR factor is not playing the last role here. [1] https://www.dw.com/uk/protydiia-koronavirusu-mriia-y-ruslany-zavaleni-zamovlenniamy/a-53095824 https://www.dw.com/uk/protydiia-koronavirusu-mriia-y-ruslany... or https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dw.com%2Fuk%2Fprotydiia-koronavirusu-mriia-y-ruslany-zavaleni-zamovlenniamy%2Fa-53095824 https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...