{"id":29323,"date":"2023-02-17T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=29323"},"modified":"2023-02-12T17:21:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T03:21:36","slug":"an-antonov-an-124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=29323","title":{"rendered":"An Antonov AN-124?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-thumbnail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=29317\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/CL23-56-23040-DC-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"An Antonov AN-124 at Kona International Airport\" class=\"wp-image-29317\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An Antonov AN-124 at Kona International Airport<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>At the south end of the runway there is a parking area for transient aircraft.  The  hard stands here are usually populated with a flock of private jets that ferry the well-to-do to their Hawaii vacation homes.  Occasionally there is a regular cargo 747 that is parked here, looming above the Learjets and Gulfstreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was a bit different&#8230;  <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=29316\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/CL23-55-23040-DC-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"An Antonov AN-124 at Kona International Airport\" class=\"wp-image-29316\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An Antonov AN-124 at Kona International Airport<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>From a distance I thought it was the usual 747, not paying much attention during my routine commute.  A bit closer and I did a double take&#8230; This was no 747, but rather an Antonov.  I knew immediately it was an AN-something, but could not remember which.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Social media chatter later that day provided the answer&#8230; An <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antonov_An-124_Ruslan\">Antonov AN-124<\/a> making a stopover from Asia while headed to Seattle. A Ukranian aircraft currently operating out of Germany on charter for special cargoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the south end of the runway there is a parking area for transient aircraft. The hard stands here are usually populated with a flock of private jets that ferry the well-to-do to their Hawaii vacation homes. Occasionally there is a regular cargo 747 that is parked here, looming above the Learjets and Gulfstreams. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=29323\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Antonov AN-124?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[1300,2865,2866,380],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/CL23-56-23040-DC.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29326,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29323\/revisions\/29326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}