FULLY LOADED AN-124 USES ENTIRE RUNWAY AT GLASGOW PRESTWICK 4K

[@lindaj5492]

Helpful of that wee man to stand in front to give us a sense of scale 😊

[@seanrae97]

That was my mate Jack haha. Was that busy it couldn't be avoided

[@tracy2331]

It blows my mind how it even gets off the ground!!

[@seanrae97]

Lots of runway and full throttle haha

[@floraaficianado5050]

The actual moment of liftoff and there’s someone’s head blocking “the moment!” Great planning Mr. Videographer!

[@seanrae97]

I had actually planned my spot tbh. But I can't help if a big popular antonov brings a crowd. Can't be helped I'm afraid, and for reference it doesn't actually properly rotate till after persons head 👍

[@AlanjamesFrame]

Ah, you're one of those keyboard warriors we hear about !!!

[@seanrae97]

@@AlanjamesFrame 👌👌

[@wtyssen]

Thunderbird 2 anybody? Just waiting for the palm trees to open, the runway to lift and the rockets to kick in!!

[@seanrae97]

Hahaha I do see the resemblance 🤣

[@Ettrick8]

It doesn't really look like Thunderbird 2

[@JonathanWinton123]

Absolutely class video mate. Would loved to have seen it. Very well done catching it 😃

[@seanrae97]

Thanks a lot mate. What a rare beauty. She was heavy 😁

[@fredfred2363]

I wonder what was being transported... 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇦

[@seanrae97]

All i know was it was something for Bombardier in Montreal. It got loaded the night before so unfortunately didn't see

[@BPJJohn]

We pay for whole Runway, we use whole Runway.

[@seanrae97]

Making full use of the runway charge

[@andybryson5061]

😂😂😂😂

[@melaniuscollaco]

Arrogant so and so

[@Ettrick8]

Stocked up on Irn Bru, Ginger Wine, tablet, Edinburgh Rock, Soor Plooms and Macaroon Bars

[@user-ei3dq2dw6i]

Thats very long runway Prestwick thanks for sharing

[@seanrae97]

Anytime. It was amazing to watch, thanks for the nice comment 😁

[@topgazza]

Stunning

[@seanrae97]

Thank you mate 👌

[@Supernaut2000]

Fly baby, FLY! And hopefully in the future your big brother Mirai will join you in the skies!

[@seanrae97]

I wish I could've witnessed the greatness of the 225!

[@roberthall5036]

Amazing aircraft from a great country. BE BRAVE.

[@seanrae97]

🇺🇦💪

[@MiodragSavic-d8m]

More than 50% of this aircraft was made in Russia.It was assembled in Ukraine.

[@rowgli]

​@@MiodragSavic-d8mbest kept away from Russia from now on, though, in case they destroy 100% of it, like they did the AN 225.

[@norbam]

Made in Russia? It was designed in Ukraine by Antonov. Do you have a source for your figure? As far as I can see, it's a product of a globalised world. I'm quite unsure why you wanted to highlight russias input in a comment underlining Ukrainian ingenuity. Would you like to elaborate?

[@roberthall5036]

@@norbam sorry dont know what you are on about. As far as I know the aircraft is a product from Ukraine. Nothing to do with the scum in russia. Sorry that you are a supporter if the scum. Shame on you. We in the UK support Ukraine.

[@robertdoyle687]

Its what it has inside it which intrigues me 🤔

[@seanrae97]

We can speculate, all we know is it was full and it was heading for Canada

[@Kunta-d8u]

Huge aircraft, I’ve seen it twice, Cape Verdi and Zakinthos International Greece - Putin uses the Anotov when he removes his stolen Russian gold bullion.

[@kenalloway1509]

Fantastic Sean👌 The big Antonov must have sneaked in without me noticing lol😄 Brilliant catch & thanks for sharing👍🏻

[@seanrae97]

Yeah it was a last minute one for sure. Saw it land on radar late the night before. Definitely didn't get any sleep. Was well worth it though 👌

[@kenalloway1509]

What time did the Antonov leave Sean? Might have heard it near the house!

[@seanrae97]

1400 ish. Rumbled the ground that's for sure 😀

[@kenalloway1509]

OK Sean thanks👍🏻 Well worth your journey over….its not every day you get to witness one of these giants! Superb video👌

[@seanrae97]

Thanks for the kind comments Ken. You always did say PIK wouldn't disappoint and it hasn't let me down 😉

[@forbiddenracer2056]

Managed to film this other day taking off at east mids, amazing plane to watch.

[@seanrae97]

They truly are. Size of them is breathtaking. That must've been on its return across the pond

[@Joe74854]

That thing is huge

[@seanrae97]

Even bigger in person. Shook the ground 🤯

[@PLANEMANIA747]

Absolutely beautiful capturing ❤

[@seanrae97]

Thank you very much! 🙏

[@robd2184]

Technically to prescribe to the performance regulations you only need clear the far end of the runway by 15’ min , so no problem at all, they were ways higher

[@Buddieboy1957]

Im not a plane guy, but wow, that was impressive.

[@seanrae97]

It shook the ground on takeoff, a beast of a plane 💪

[@EwanWeetch]

Startup sounds 😮‍💨

[@seanrae97]

They were 💪👌

[@daviddarrall9384]

Excellent footage. Must have been cold! ! 😊 UK.

[@seanrae97]

Thank you! Yeah haha it was -4c . Sunny day in Scotland!

[@jimeditorial]

He paid for 9000 feet...and he's gonna use 9000 feet

[@seanrae97]

😂😂😂 he knows how to use every penny

[@edutaimentcartoys]

nice plane spotting video

[@seanrae97]

Thank you very much 🙏

[@jonathanpringle8238]

i wish they would remove glasgow drim the name as it will always be known as preswick airport.

[@seanrae97]

Ryanairs version of Glasgow

[@Georgieisaporgie]

Beautiful Ukranian aircraft! Shame her big sister no longer flies amongst them. Looked like the engines started in a 1, 3, 2, 4 configuration, Is this normal?

[@seanrae97]

I wouldnt be to sure exactly as to why they did it in that order. Might have been due to the cold?

[@gordonmcleod-b6r]

The Ukrainians have a very limited ability to produce aircraft. This is a Russian Antonov.

[@JurivonStolzenberg14]

Yes , read those descriptions online, proabbly to do with airturbulemce or fuel or other engineering reason. Vibration, heat?

[@Amazing-Avia-Tech]

C130 seems a baby in front of An124!!

[@seanrae97]

It does, and that isn't a small aircraft either

[@wayneschenk5512]

Great footage

[@seanrae97]

Thank you very much 🙏 appreciate the kind words

[@Piotr-uv2yp]

Beautifull antonov

[@seanrae97]

Was such a beast 😍

[@charlesmoss8119]

Check out the vodka burner video - it’s an old one but gosh it’s impressive

[@seanrae97]

I'll give it a watch 😉

[@radiotowers1159]

Missed it..damn

[@antonysmith9173]

Wow! Absolutely stunning aircraft.😮

[@seanrae97]

It really is!

[@auwz66]

I live a few miles from PIK and quite enjoy plane spotting, is there anywhere with a good time table of when interesting stuff like this is in and out?

[@seanrae97]

I joined the local Facebook group for Planespotting. And saw some information on this movement on there

[@innfield8836]

Is that the same model as the one that was destroyed a couple of years ago?

[@seanrae97]

Negative. This model is 1 of 26 AN-124's. The aircraft destroyed was the AN-225

[@ianstewartorr8455]

That was like us in the ward air DC 10 in 1982 going to Calgary Alberta we took off at the same point over 8 hours of fuel onboard it was my first time on a aircraft I was seventeen

[@seanrae97]

I would've loved to see a DC-10 in action! They must've made some racket. My dad used to fly out of PIK all the time on ward air. Lovely airline!

[@psvbdev67]

Great footage Sean, I could kick myself , i live right next to Prestwick airport and i missed this. How do find out when these big birds are taking of and landing?

[@seanrae97]

Thanks mate. And I follow the Prestwick Facebook planespotting groups. I saw it posted in there 👌

[@danners4302]

Think your caps lock was stuck when you wrote this title

[@seanrae97]

I use caps lock for all my titles 👌

[@danners4302]

@ not trying to troll or anything - but please don’t… it makes them so much harder to read. Sentence case is a lot easier to read for humans than all caps

[@seanrae97]

@@danners4302 Don't worry mate don't think you are at all. I'll take it on board though, maybe time to mix things up a little ✈️

[@hawkeyeten2450]

Any idea what the cargo was? Fascinating and excellent footage to say the least.

[@seanrae97]

Thank you! All I know was that it was off to bombardier in Montreal. Cargo was loaded the night before

[@Opticalilyushin1]

C-Series/A220 wings from Belfast. Normally they travel direct to Montreal, but not sure why they went via PIK this time, perhaps to pick up other parts?

[@seanrae97]

@Opticalilyushin1 Thanks for this information 👌Unsure why they routed via PIK but hey I'm not complaining

[@GrrMeister]

*Elvis Landed there the only time he visited the UK !*

[@seanrae97]

Must've wanted a battered mars bar 🤣

[@evalee6708]

In an Antonov?

[@lindaj5492]

Wonder what was its cargo? Pre-Christmas stuff?

[@seanrae97]

Parts for Airbus A220 aircraft in Canada

[@Joe74854]

Those engines will be worn out before it gets airborne 😮

[@seanrae97]

They sounded like they were struggling

[@robertbeckstrand1991]

Question, How close to MAX takeoff weight was the aircraft?

[@seanrae97]

I'm not sure. But it had aeroplane parts for the Airbus A220 on board so it definitely wasn't light

[@philjameson292]

Apparently the aircrew asked for Arran to be towed a bit closer to the mainland just in case😊

[@seanrae97]

Hahaha it certainly seemed like it needed it at one point 🤣

[@monsterkillsports3499]

Do u know the type of engine? Amazing vid😊

[@seanrae97]

Thanks for the comment! The AN-124 is powered by four Lotarev D-18 turbofan engines

[@ecossearthur]

Catch some on board video via Commander Dmytro Antonov AN-124

[@laurastuart3814]

Are they using coal?

[@seanrae97]

Looks like it the way the engines started 🤣 Just unburnt fuel and the cold weather when starting I believe

[@jimmyboo1877]

I Sean I live in Ayr and like to check out the apps to see whats flying about nearby. How would I find out in advance about the likes of this one so I could go along and have a look?

[@seanrae97]

I saw this on the Facebook group the night before so knew about it departing the next day. I would join a spotter's group to best keep an eye on movements

[@bmw320i2]

Frost on the wings? Meh.

[@seanrae97]

We were lucky it didn't go tech 😂😂

[@graememckay9972]

I thought the only one of those had been destroyed. How many of them exist?

[@seanrae97]

That was the AN-225, There is about 26 of these AN-124's still flying

[@yoonytek]

The big one had 6 engines. I saw it at Prestwick a while back before the war.

[@seanrae97]

@yoonytek RIP

[@ecossearthur]

Antonov AN-124 x 6 available at Antonov Airlines. One more still requiring repair at home base in Gostamel Ukraine

[@tedsmith6137]

He still had runway left! You haven't used ALL the strip until you kick up dust as you skim the overrun.

[@seanrae97]

He still used a good 2800m of runway before rotation

[@roberthall5036]

Designed by Ukraine made in Ukraine. As usual russia just wanted to get in on the act. Down with the madman Pukekin.

[@phensriwood2093]

There’s another vid of this aircraft at Melbourne airport trimming the gum trees.

[@seanrae97]

Haha nearly at a Version 2 here 😂

[@alexsnell8177]

I wonder how much fuel that thing is using per minute?

[@OOpSjm]

Takeoff: 9.8 g/(kN⋅s) (0.345 lb/(lbf⋅h)); Cruise: 15.5 g/(kN⋅s) (0.546 lb/(lbf⋅h))[7]

[@seanrae97]

There's Your answer 🤣 I would've said alot haha

[@markleeming1786]

The snp welcome it with open arms, it helps to balance the net zero data

[@seanrae97]

@@markleeming1786 Hahaha 🤣

[@Dontgiveafeck]

​@@OOpSjm errrrr, yep, I knew that (not) 😆

[@UNICORN69HO]

Slava Ukrani. Magnificent, noisy, smokey beast.

[@seanrae97]

Amazing to witness

[@kevt5251]

whats on fire in the background

[@seanrae97]

Think it's an industrial tower. Fumes coming out are just reacting with the cold. It was freezing 🥶

[@stephenhall3515]

Russian crew and CIS contract. This flight had nothing to do with Ukraine.

[@seanrae97]

Probably not but still flies the Ukrainian colours on the side 💪

[@stephenhall3515]

@@seanrae97 Indeed. When the Antonov technical staff gradually moved to Russia following the huge scandal of the senior management being oligarchs and arrested by the Poroshenko fraud squad, some conditions were agreed. Founding designer Oleg Antonov had died in 1984 but had been happy to move main production from Novosibirsk to Ukraine SSR because sales of specialized, smaller aircraft than usual were increasing to the Americas -- especially Canada, Cuba and several S. American countries for mountain areas and fire duties. Although Antonov remained a Russian funded company until a Kiev messy buy-out in the late 1990s (after his death) Oleg A had special affection for north west Ukraine and Belarus hiking country as an avid sports walker and winter sports former champion. His last marriage (of 3) was to a Ukrainian woman. Further, the company ethos was to avoid the military market and Beriev took over that side of things but their product numbers use the letter 'A'. After the management scandal, servicing Antonov planes took place in Russia and a condition of a large work force moving back there was to retain the colors of where Oleg Antonov was buried. Antonov Co is also part of a group of companies based in Asian Russia/CIS which is working on advanced civil aviation including near-space transport of satellites and parts for new international space station construction and southern hemisphere communications satellite consistency.

[@ecossearthur]

Bungalow.... Ukrainian crew and Ukrainian owned. They now fly out of Leipzig Germany

[@timothyseabrook1584]

its simple venturi’s theorem as used by the wright brothers in dec 1903 that gets it off the ground! just the appliance of science the sir passing over the top of the wing travels faster than the sir below creating low pressure snove the wing and jihh pressure below it the entire wing sits at an angle generally about30degrees nose up to the airflow grnersting lift the wing is optimised for flight in the ctuise st altitude yo provide enough lift yo keep the aircraft airnourse for tskeoff snd on landing there are high lift debices yo generate more lift at low dpeeds like flaps extending ftom the trailing edge ( back of the wing) and lesding efge flsps sjivh extend ftom the front of the wing

[@seanrae97]

Couldn't of said it better myself

[@falkoirmer3982]

They wouldn't do the same take-off in the summertime with 35° Celsius and much higher humidity. Otherwise they would be in the news, I guess.

[@seanrae97]

They'd be at LHR giving to what for on their 12000ft + runway 🤣

[@Bob18818]

Yould probably have too get as much thrust as possible and about a speed off about 120mph MYBE more just to get airborne

[@seanrae97]

He was very low and fast when rotating. Great to see!

[@ecossearthur]

​@@seanrae97Normal warm up is just under 10 minutes

[@Thecrazyvaclav]

I always wonder why the stripes are the wrong way round, Ukrainian flag as we all know by now is blue on top, yellow below.

[@seanrae97]

Hmmm. I've always wondered that aswell but can't complain. Still looks amazing

[@Leminko11]

Live in neighbouring village only heard it

[@seanrae97]

It was a noisy old thing I'll give it that 🤣

[@thes4uce]

Let's hope that simpleton doesn't destroy this is too

[@colonel_Lynch]

Надо срочно декоммунизировать...

[@seanrae97]

If it brings more AN-124's I'm game

[@3204clivesinclair]

Hence why they use that airport. Plus cheaper fees.

[@seanrae97]

If they want to come use PIK again anytime soon that'll suit me 👀

[@eduardjacob8710]

Oleg Antovov era RUSSO, esse é um avião projetado na Rússia !

[@gower23]

It's not that powerful despite its four engines. Only slightly more thrust than an A350 with two.

[@seanrae97]

That's amazing to think. Probably why they need 3000m + runways when full of cargo

[@federicoprice2687]

Slava 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦

[@seanrae97]

💪

[@OOpSjm]

Engines are clapped out

[@seanrae97]

Clapped out and maxed out

[@robwillcox2307]

But it still delivers the goods.

[@ecossearthur]

Actual BS

[@geoffmeyer9665]

The bigger version of which there was only one of was destroued by Russia

[@OOpSjm]

@@geoffmeyer9665 incorrect

[@deang5622]

It was an AN-225 that was destroyed in Ukraine by Russia. If I recall the AN-225 is slightly bigger than the AN-124. But for quite a while the AN-124 was the largest aircraft in the world.

[@seanrae97]

@deang5622 Yeah the AN-225 had 6 engines whilst this only had 4. And the AN-225 was longer and bigger

[@denim1man]

Interesting in English the words Be Brave are written on it. What are the odds of an American jet ever having any Russian phrases written on it. Very classy.

[@seanrae97]

Luckily this is Ukrainian 💪🇺🇦

[@psalm1197]

The Russians know how to build BIG!

[@seanrae97]

Extremely Big 😂

[@ecossearthur]

Actually built in Ukraine....

[@lindaadams1878]

I thought this was destroyed by the Russians

[@eckie4679]

The AN225 was allegedly. This is the AN124. I think there’s a few still operating

[@seanrae97]

AN 225 sadly was. This was her smaller cousin

[@gerryellis3847]

225 had six engines and a twin fin tail. It was re designed to take the Space Shuttle

[@TheGalwayFarmer]

not completely destroyed, the back half was unscathed

[@fredfred2363]

Those engines must have a really low compression ratio, else the crew throw in fuel before the turbine pressures are up. So much smoke (unburnt fuel)! Really not good for the exit turbine blades.

[@seanrae97]

They put an extra 30T in just before departure. Think it was refuelled the night before aswell

[@eckie4679]

Coal fired 🤔😂

[@seanrae97]

@eckie4679 Or Vodka 😂😂

[@davevanderlinden8061]

d18-t engines smoke a lot @100% trust kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3XcgpesdpmHlacsi=3dkiHQlnsEDgS2C2

[@STOINK-h7t]

I find in amazing how the wings that join to the plane are able to support the weight of the x2 engines aswell as i imagine some fuel. Also are able to be able to flex aswell ? How is this achieved

[@seanrae97]

Really strong structural bolts and plenty of clever Ukrainian engineering 💪

[@eckie4679]

A124s have landed at Edinburgh at least twice. I was lucky enough to see one back in about 2000. Sadly phone cameras weren’t quite a thing back then 🫤

[@seanrae97]

I bet is was still quite an experience 😉

[@SirReginaldBlomfield1234]

Someone always has to have their head in the way 🥴

[@seanrae97]

Hahahaha when something that popular is about can't be helped 😜

[@stephendevlin9809]

Probably taken all our taxpayers money 😂

[@PtHough]

Excellent video

[@seanrae97]

Thanks very much 🙏