Avtonov Antonov Biography Wikipedia

The commander of the crew and the pilot of the largest aircraft in the world of AN "Mriya" Dmitry Antonov spoke about his important work and life outside the flights. The secrets of the pilot’s work and the nuances about the Mriya Antonov aircraft reported in the negotiation program. Dmitry Antonov was born in Kyiv in the year and grew up in Pechersk. At school, he was not an excellent student, but after graduation he chose a military school and decided to become a pilot.

He said that the desire came by itself and chose the Balashov Higher Military Aviation School of pilots. Antonov’s father was the general director of the Mayak Scientific and Production Association and created electronic equipment for aviation and space. The famous Oleg Antonov is a namesake, not a relative, but the father of the future pilot Mriya was friends with him for many years.

Antonov is married, he has three children, three grandchildren and as he himself says - a cheerful disposition. The turbulence in the AN is the Honeywell locator, which shows weather conditions. These locators immediately show thunderstorm clouds, which the aircraft needs to be flying around. It also happens that lightning can get on the plane. This situation was with Mriya - a dent remained on board the giant one and a half meters and almost a meter deep.

According to Dmitry Antonov, despite the dimensions of Mriya, turbulence in it is felt and the wing can deviate down and up 1.5 and more meters. You can predict - using locators. The crew and rest in the flight of the Mriya crew consists of 6 people and 2 on -boarders. Dmitry Antonov collects a large team to fulfill orders in order to be able to work longer and sometimes on board even 18 people at once.

The rotation of the crew usually occurs at large airports - for example, in Istanbul, Leipzig or Baku. Employees are brought from Kyiv on other smaller aircraft - AN or AN Pilot’s work is the main task of the pilot - to monitor the operation of the engines, speed and direction. It is very important to follow the situation around. There are other large aircraft that can send Mriya to turbulence, for example, Airbus a If you get into its downhole stream, then the plane will be very thrown.

Unusual cargo "Mriya" is mainly transported by very heavy and oversized cargoes. There are very interesting orders, for example, an experimental blade from a wind generator. She had to be delivered from China to Denmark to Krash-test. The blade was 44 meters long and weighed 10 tons. The plane was almost empty. The most funny order is a complete toilet plane for the military in Afghanistan.

True, the Antonov team delivered this cargo to Ruslan, and not to Mriya. Long business trips the longest business trip Dmitry Antonov was 76 days, while in flight I had to spend only 56 hours. I had to stand idle due to the fact that returning to the base in Kyiv was simply unprofitable without cargo. Sometimes on business trips the crew manages to take a walk around the city or the country where they flew.

How much will fly Mriya Dmitry Antonov believes that Mriya will be able to fly up to a year. He explained that the aircraft does not have a clearly defined resource, but for large aircraft, the resource is extended to 45 years. Mriya has now extended the resource for up to a year. In my opinion, based on the state of the aircraft, Mriya will fly without problems for at least 25 years, ”the pilot emphasized.

The pilot of the largest aircraft in the world spoke about the secrets of his work, recall that earlier we talked about how the Mriyah Aircraft Salon looks inside.