Question: why is so urgent to ship a metro car by air instead of waiting 2 weeks for it to arrive by boat ? The entire transportation network of Delhi hinges on one sub car ???
Zamolxes77 you have taken words out of mind. You could of ship 100 trains to India whole lot cheaper if Indians are willing to wait maybe month for ship to get there.
Answer: It's got to deliver that Metro train from Germany to Delhi. There are very few ships that will accomodate trains and the port facilities may be limited. It's not possible to use the rail network because the infrastructure won't accommodate it. Even if it could, it would be extremely expensive. A look on any map will show why it can't go by road. This is the only way. Incidentally, I don't know if it still happens, but I believe in the UK new trains were being delivered by road because it was cheaper than rail. I certainly remember the wretched lorries because they held traffic up where ever they went. The decision to do this was made by accountants. Much as I love our bean counting friends, many are male which means they are 4x more likely to be autistic, and this is a profession where you work with numbers, not people, and so on average there will be more accountants who are higher up the spectrum than in selling, for instance, or any other customer facing job. All this means they are incapable of taking into account the reputational damage that their decision to go cheap brings with it. I do have a problem with the profession. An accountant has never invented anything, manufactured anything, sold anything or maintained it. Yet they have a stranglehold on most companies decision making. Why? Most likely because many organisations have as their principle objective "maximising shareholder value", a policy which is like killing the golden goose, slowly and painfully over time. Rant over. My work here is done, but I do intend to find out exactly why these trains can't be sent by sea. Richard Finneman wrote a book called "The joy of finding things out" (or similar) and if it's good enough for him, it's well good enough for me.
@@gerald6919 It also occurs that they should be manufacturing them in India. You'd have thought they might have better facilities and expertise with their long experience of rail travel. It occurs that previously they had to import from the UK at a time before the aeroplane was invented. Who knows?
Not too sure about this case, but for Malaysia in 2020, Bombardier (now Alstom) shipped one trainset of 4 carriages using the Antonov 124 because they finished its construction late. So to avoid having lateness penalties, Bombardier decided to ship the train with the 124. Side note: Bombardier was able to send the whole trainset in one go because it was an LRT train, so it was most likely smaller than the train featured here, AND they put two cars side by side.
Breaks my heart . been playing Microsoft flight simulator since I was a child fell in love with the plane then and then to find out that it's gone is such a shock I almost couldn't believe it rest in peace
Hey honey, what did you do at work today? Ah nothing, literally, i just sat there and watched a plane give birth to a train at a rate of about 0.1 km/h.
I about died laughing when the fuselage-to-carry-the-space-shuttle-would-be-too-large plane not only collapsed its landing gear, but fell into the earth itself.
Both are cool for me. I love making traditional art (anime) and I’m quite good at it too. And my dream job is working as an aerospace engineer for Boeing ✈️
“It’S tHe An-225 yOu DuNcEs!” The An-225 is both shown alongside the An-124 in stock footage and mentioned at the end. The AN-225 was grounded when this was made. Big Bigger Biggest oversimplifies at times. The Scaled Composites Stratolaunch, first flying in 2018, exceeds the An-225’s wingspan, and was designed as a mothership aircraft.
I don't count the Stratolaunch as being the biggest plane in the world like a lot of people do. It's not a plane.....it's two aircraft stuck together with wing sections connecting them. Hell it's not hard to look at it and see that. Just like back when they made the twin mustang they literally said they stuck two mutangs together with a common wing to get more range out of it. They literally stuck two planes together to make the Stratolaunch together in the same way just to use it as a lifting platform so i don't count it as a single plane no matter how people try to argue it. To each their own though.
When I was around 7 or 8 (3rd grade) my mom and I took a MAC flight from California to Oahu Hawaii. On this flight we boarded a C-5 Galaxy. It was huge, and the seats faced backwards instead of forward.
Guys, AN 225 was a one off designed specifically to carry the Soviet Space Shuttle. True, true, it's freaking mahoosive but it's also kind of a one shot wonder as well.
Well, firstly, this is not a one-time thing, the documentation remains, secondly, it is the experience and technology that remained in Russia, and thirdly, the An335 was not created to transport Buran, this was carried out by a strategic aircraft without any problems. An 225 was created as a space launch pad for both the Buran shuttle and the MAX System and the Molniya shuttle
No, ok look, the Antonov 124 and 225 are the same plane. The plane was refitted to carry the space shuttle and then after that it was taken down and made back into the Antonov 124 thus them saying the Antonov 124 is the largest cargo plane in the world at the time. After this they went on to fully build a stand alone Antonov 225. NOW it is the largest in the world but back then it wasn't.
Jeremy Dias This episode aired in 2011, which is 5 years ago good sir. It was posted 3 years ago.
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+Anti_Nana AN-225 Мрiя is again in service since 2001 after major renovation. It was created based on AN-124 making it simply larger but it was never turned back into AN-124, it would not make any sence. However second AN-225 was not completed at the time this episode was aired.
muromets : i can carry a bomb junkers : i can carry a ton of mail clipper : i can cross the atlantic gigant : i can carry full equipped soldier galaxy : i can carry tanks a lot of tanks 124 : i can carry a train 225 : i can carry a space shuttle and wind turbine
45:51 to 46:30 they do have a second Antonov 225 in a hanger which is 65% complete also if they can turn it on Antonov 124 into the Antonov 225 once why can’t they do it again only this time better and more quickly? After all all they need to do is take the wings off the Antonov 124 and attach it to the shell on the brand new Antonov 226 which I will now call it from here on out same goes for the nose, as for the vertical stabiliser that is the only thing that will be more tricky because they haven’t built a tail like that for a plane that large in like what over 30 years?
+winkymick not really, the only 225 exist since the 80s. it wasnt operational during the 90s, but it was refurbished and upgraded in late 90s and its operational since then. not sure why they focused this documentary on the 124. maybe it should be called big, bigger, almost biggest....
yes the basis is the same, supersized (longer hull, more wheels on the landing gear, and an extra wing section). but yeah sure the building blocks are the same, just more of them. but since 224 is the supersized version, its size and capacity makes it the biggest.
I don't think they flew that train from Germany to India because if you look at 42:37 they used the same exact cranes and the landscapes looks the same just different lighting to set one apart from the other they have the same vans and used the same exact transporter that the cranes lodes the crane on to. Wow nice try but didn't work on me
@@Milk-ew4pf if you are going by that logic then russia is a Mongol and urallic influenced version of ukraine. Let me remind you that Kyiv AND Lviv were built long before moscow. Volyn halych existed long before the duchy of moscow.
@@CPTE5069 Stop your idiotic fantasies. Kiev was the Capital of Russia in one period of time after Novgorod. It has nothing to do with Ukraine, like other territories and histories. So stop your fantasies, sheep
@37:40 Why did Engineer Ed's tube collapse? Although it is a fact, that the pressure difference when opening the end piece could result in unbalance and potential danger, he made the block fall apart purposely by distorting the center of gravity of the tube. Had he placed the load at the correct center of gravity around the middle of the tube, the result might have been different even with the open end.
I love how they used the excuse to build a bigger plane than the 124 to carry the Buran shuttle when it wasn't necessary lol. The American shuttle was bigger and was carried on the top of a converted 747 which is smaller than the 124 and carried it just fine. They could have just converted a 124 to do the job but they chose to do what the Soviet Union always tried to do......make something much bigger whether it needed to be that big to just show off what they could do. Now with that said the Mriya 225 was one hell of an aircraft but it didn't have to be built to move their smaller shuttle lol.
Whatever you felt doesn't matter but I am super excited to see this maghty plane whoever invented this huge plane it was profitable and efficient for humanity.
Sadly Mriya is no more so the AN124 is indeed the biggest in the skys. I do hope they manage to rebuild the AN225, Apparently it is pheasable. Only time will tell.
