Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Boat vs. 747 (was Re^2: Hawaii as a launching site)
Message-ID: <1990Jan4.023951.13301@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <IA80024.89352200552@MAINE.BITNET> <3831@orion.cf.uci.edu> <9222@elsie.UUCP> <771@ritcsh.cs.rit.edu> <1989Dec21.050541.293@ultra.com> <SHAFER.89Dec21092542@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov> <1620@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <1989Dec29.035137.19044@utzoo.uucp> <15043@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 90 02:39:51 GMT

In article <15043@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
>>You *might* be able to do it if you forgot about the 747 and used an
>>Antonov Mriya instead.  Now *there's* a big aircraft...
>
>I thought about that too but you'd be better off with the 747.  The An-225
>has really crappy range.  I was unable to find published numbers but
>it was revealed that 5 stops were needed to fly Kiev-Paris for this year's
>Air Show.

Can you cite a reference for this?  Flight International (29 Nov) says
Mriya range is 2500km at 250 tons of payload and 4500km at 200T.  The
former is explicitly internal; the latter is not specified as internal
or external.  An orbiter only weighs about 65T, although the Soviets
normally run that up to 200 or so by including the loading and unloading
equipment.
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1972: Saturn V #15 flight-ready|     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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