{"id":27022,"date":"2016-06-19T10:49:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T17:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/china-is-in-preliminary-talks-with-ukraine-to-finish-the-second-antonov-225-cargo-plane"},"modified":"2017-04-26T12:55:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T19:55:06","slug":"china-is-in-preliminary-talks-with-ukraine-to-finish-the-second-antonov-225-cargo-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/china-is-in-preliminary-talks-with-ukraine-to-finish-the-second-antonov-225-cargo-plane","title":{"rendered":"China is in preliminary talks with Ukraine to finish the second Antonov 225 cargo plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-is-in-preliminary-talks-with-ukraine-to-finish-the-second-antonov-225-cargo-plane.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.milnavigator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/27070615-1024x683.jpg.pagespeed.ce.d97TXgKQ3v.jpg\" target=\"blank\">China is in talks with the Ukraine to finish a half built second copy of the Antonov cargo plane.<\/a> It would likely cost about $300 million to complete the plane.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antonov_An-225_Mriya\" target=\"blank\">The Antonov An-225 Mriya is a strategic airlift cargo aircraft that was designed by the Soviet Union\u2019s Antonov Design Bureau in the 1980s.<\/a> It is powered by six turbofan engines and is the longest and heaviest airplane ever built, with a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tonnes (710 short tons). The Antonov An-225, initially developed for the task of transporting the Buran spaceplane, was an enlargement of the successful Antonov An-124. The first and only An-225 was completed in 1988.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/06\/china-is-in-preliminary-talks-with.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+blogspot%252Fadvancednano+%2528nextbigfuture%2529\">http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/06\/china-is-in-preliminary-tal...uture%2529<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is in talks with the Ukraine to finish a half built second copy of the Antonov cargo plane. It would likely cost about $300 million to complete the plane. The Antonov An-225 Mriya is a strategic airlift cargo aircraft that was designed by the Soviet Union\u2019s Antonov Design Bureau in the 1980s. It is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56132,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27022\/revisions\/56132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}