ABSTRACT
There are relatively few freight aircraft that can lift heavy single-piece loads, and there is always an eager demand for their capacity.
During the days of the Cold War, the parents of today’s air cargo executive in the UK would worry and whisper quietly that should the Soviets decide to cross the Iron Curtain and storm through the Berlin Wall, ‘they will be in London in four days’. Fortunately, that was never to be the case. And all who are familiar with the giant Antonov AN-124 heavy-lift aircraft will know that the information surrounding the whole concern was fundamentally wrong in the first place – courtesy of the backbone of today’s heavy-lift air transportation business the Red Army would have been in London in only four hours!
