She dead …

rest in peace big plane :<

:(

@Deserter
Hopefully that’s the case. The machine is such a superstar in the eyes of aviation fanatics worldwide. I have yet to see this thing my whole life.

@Khauntzat Adramélekhizarovich Searmaev
Apparently, that’s not gonna stop the Ukranians, they are planning to rebuild her, no matter what it takes.

So I’ve just seen the latest images of her. She is too destroyed beyond repair.

Our only hope now is the second unfinished frame but my heart still aches because she is the original Mriya we’ve all grew and known for the past four decades.

T-T

@Khauntzat Adramélekhizarovich Searmaev
@MagpulPony
@Khauntzat Adramélekhizarovich Searmaev
@Zerowinger
@LemonDrop
We can rebuild her. We have the technology :P

rip bigplone

RIP

…She can be just rebuilt again dammit! 😭

Oh I have been tryina fight back my tears the moment I heard the news up till now. Just sobbed ugly like a little kid again. 😭😭😭

She was such an astonishing wonder of aviation.

You’ll live on in my heart forever, big girl. You literally changed my life.

Rest well easy now, big ol’ fella.

You didn’t deserve this……….

YAAAAA

@Background Pony #E998  

 
Thou must.

@Free Current  
Would you try kissing it though XD

@TheMagpulPone  
I have seen her in person. She has a very spacious interior

@ACApenetrator50  
She’s one of the greatest aircraft of all time. It is my dream to some day see her in person.

THATS A HUGE BITCH!

@Background Pony #E0F5  
She can’t. They have a strange anatomy that’s entirely mechanical yet also works like a live living creature. All of her innards are like a real plane, but at the same time it can all grow, heal, etc. She only has a mouth (and some, ahem, “other” parts) because she was designed to have them, but she doesn’t actually have a digestive system or internal organs like what a pony would. If she swallowed you, you’d just end up in the plane’s cargo area XD

@Badumsquish  
Omg that’s big <3

@Eeveeinheat  
So she would presumably run on fuel yet also possess a fully functional digestive system? I woner if she ever accidentally “processed” her cargo in the past :P

@Free Current  
Humongous :D

@Free Current  
Well, it should be pretty easy to guesstimate.
 
GMHAA is standing there in the pic for a size comparison, so I’d say Antonov’s tongue is roughly the size of a small building.
 
Dat’s a lotta tongue <3

@Badumsquish  
Oh my. How big is it?