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Jury-rigging one of the A380s would be cheaper and faster, in my opinion. Also there is an unfinished An-225 somewhere in Ukraine, so that is another option.
by d_silin 3y ago
Jury-rigging one of the A380s would be cheaper and faster, in my opinion. Also there is an unfinished An-225 somewhere in Ukraine, so that is another option.
- jacobriis 3y ago[flagged]
- wkat4242 3y agoThose don't meet the short-runway requirement mentioned in the article. In fact there's very few airports that can handle an A380. Considering they mention packed-dirt short runways it sounds like the plan is to create a temporary runway directly at the wind farm site, eliminating even the road transport from the airport to the construction site. That's a pretty smart idea if they can make it work. An A380 definitely won't do that job. I seem to also remember that the A380 needs additional strengthening to be used for freight, there was some talk of developing a freight version but it was never done. For this particular cargo perhaps it isn't needed though as I assume those blades aren't super heavy.