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- From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix)
- Subject: Re: Soviet C-5 Clone (AN-124?) at Moffet Field
- Message-ID: <Bxx23M.MuI@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:40:34 GMT
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- From fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix)
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- In article <BxtK7q.1MM@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> cup.portal.com!Arthur_T_Hu%portal@uunet.uu.net writes:
- >
- >From cup.portal.com!Arthur_T_Hu%portal@uunet.uu.net
- >
- >It's Sun Nov 15, and there's a Soviet (whatever) AN-124 C-5A Galaxy
- >clone parked where they normally put a C-5. C-5's come by all the time
- >to pick up stuff from the Lockheed plant or for NASA Ames. I just noticed
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- The Antonov was transporting the pieces of a ground satellite facility
- for some British/U.S./Russian commercial venture.
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- >Is the USAF or NASA contracting with the Soviets to use their aircraft
- >because C-5 time is in short supply, or does anybody think it was delivering
- >something to or from the Commonwealth?
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- The British component of the commercial group got the low bid in for
- transport and set up, they just chose to go with the lowest bidder for
- the transport part of the operation. (The Antonov could take the whole
- batch in one gulp, and it was just a tad too big to go in one load for
- a C-5 (or a bunch of C-141s) according to local radio reports.
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- >(talking about Moffet Field, Sunnyvale CA, the one with the big dirigible
- >hanger)
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- Where you don't *normally* see Aeroflot operating...
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