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Sun, 08/15/2010 - 12:40
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On Aviation Day strongest athletes to try pulling biggest airplane

ULYANOVSK, August 15 (Itar-Tass) -- The world strongest athletes will
try on Sunday in Ulyanovsk to pull and move for several metres the biggest
in the world airplane An-124 Ruslan, which weights 190 tonnes. This will
be the first attempt ever. The participants filed an application to the
Guinness Book of Records.
Along with Russians, there will be athletes from Lithuania, the UK,
Iceland, Poland, Estonia, Finland and Bulgaria.
The competition is organised in the Air Show-2010, which opens in
Ulyanovsk on Sunday.
The air parade will feature An-124 Ruslan and the Irkut pilotless
complexes and Russia's newest Yak-130, which will show advanced aerobatics.


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