Random thought for the day

[Cobranut]

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Many years ago I attended an airshow at Farnborough in the UK. One of the stars of the show was the Antonov AN225 Mriya (now destroyed). After landing and taxying to its spot on the flightline, the front was opened and a microlite aircraft flew out.
As an aside, before they could fly a display flight, the crew had to the ask organisers and beg other companies displaying there for money for fuel as they were only given enough fuel by the Russians to return to Russia.

That was to keep them from stealing the plane and defecting to another country.
Pretty bad when even your top pilots are that desperate to leave.

 

[RapidSpyder]