{"id":195259,"date":"2008-07-20T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/20\/oversized-an-124-variant-proposed\/"},"modified":"2008-07-20T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T16:42:00","slug":"oversized-an-124-variant-proposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/20\/oversized-an-124-variant-proposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Oversized An-124 Variant Proposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that this is targeted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/07\/17\/225715\/picture-volga-dnepr-details-proposed-taller-an-124-variant.html\">specialized &#8220;Beluga&#8221; bloated variants used by Boeing and Airbus to transport sub assemblies of their aircraft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since the AN-124 is designed from the get go as a freighter, there are some advantages, such as a lower deck allowing for freight to be driven directly on.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/20109639\/325983296.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It ain&#8217;t pretty, but it&#8217;s less ugly than the Airbus\/Boeing &#8220;bloat planes&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/20109639\/325983804.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/20109639\/325983793.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that this is targeted at the specialized &#8220;Beluga&#8221; bloated variants used by Boeing and Airbus to transport sub assemblies of their aircraft. Since the AN-124 is designed from the get go as a freighter, there are some advantages, such as a lower deck allowing for freight to be driven directly on. It ain&#8217;t &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1005,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-business","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}