It didn’t just fly. It thundered. The Antonov An-22 was a 176,000-pound Cold War workhorse whose unmistakable sound echoed for 60 years.
The Antonov An-225 was the largest aircraft in the world and came with six engines. The United States designed the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress in the 1950s with a whopping eight engines. But the 1950s ...