Springtime for Zeon (Woggy Mk II) on Nostr: I like this picture, actually. Just like America, the slavs are squatting in the ...

I like this picture, actually. Just like America, the slavs are squatting in the remains of (apparently) a greater civilization. For years they had ONE An225, renting it out and promising they'd finish building the second air frame they inherited. That never happened, of course. Every year this big POS would make the rounds, while Antonov would promise it would make more of them - *or at the very least, finish the one they had that was "70% complete"*.

I should mourn the loss of a treasure, sure, but there's something so ignoble about keeping a machine like this going when its owners can't figure out how their fathers built it to begin with. Neither side of the conflict has been able/willing/funded enough to build a replacement for this, and instead of telling the truth (it's useless aside from the gee-whiz factor) they would pretend they could still do it any day they felt like it.

Someday we'll see american C-5s in the boneyard in similar fashion, and I'll feel the same: ***A government does not deserve what it cannot maintain***