I just want all the diesels to 'Murphy Standard'.
Mark 3 & 4 coaches.
22000 sets.
Beets and cements.
That'll do for this year....
There are rumours of a reasonable Bord na Mona set in the offing.......
Indeed, he was, and the company still is, though it was really a product of the Soviet times. Sikorsky was pre-Soviet Russian. It's all rather complicated, I was just being rather (over) simplistic..
Maybe they'll get that going again, too - https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=baku&hl=en&ll=42.881845,47.657053&spn=0.001645,0.002411&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=10.873972,19.753418&t=h&hnear=Baku,+Azerbaijan&z=19
Giant aircraft have been a bit of a Russian speciality, ever since the world's first four-engined flight by Igor Sikorsky's Ilya Muromets.
..through the An-22 with those monstrous turbo-props..
.. and the Tupolev 114 - the largest pre-747 airliner..
All the parts existed for the second one, I believe. Just the commercial case for it is pending. Maybe there's been some cannibalisation, though.
Despite the commentary, I'm not sure that runway length would be the issue that selected Shannon, it may have been more to do with parking facilities..
285 tonnes empty, 640 tonnes full - a serious beast.
No, that was a mere 124.
The 225 is stretched, widened and has two more engines - and a roof-rack..
There is talk of extending the principle even further...
If you read that one way, it does sound like you have kidnapped him and are holding him to ransom for a piece of cake - I do rather hope that this is the case..