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In the world of Slavic folk tales there are giants in Ukraine but as aviators the ones we are interested are the giants that the fabled aircraft designer Oleg Antonov designed. This is his story.
The OKA1 glider
Antonov at the Leningrad Polytechnic
The OKA38 Stork
The An-2
The An-12 Cub
The An-24 Coke
The vast An-22 Cock
The huge An-124 Condor
The flight deck of the An-124
The mighty Mryia, An-225, carrying a Buran project space shuttle
The destruction of a dream, the Mryia was a victim of the Russian invaders who recently attacked Ukraine
Oleg Antonov
Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to the Antonov Design Bureau, the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, the Central Design Bureau for Gliders, Arpingstone, Igor Dvurekov, Dmitriy Pichugin, Toshi Aoki, Yevgeny Pashnin, Vasiliy Kob and Дизайнер: А.Безменов.
