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Posted by GTagami
 - April 21, 2011, 09:32:41 AM
It was in around the same time all of those Qatar birds came in.
Posted by gfydad
 - April 21, 2011, 08:05:01 AM
It was an AN-124
Posted by Realbigtaco
 - April 21, 2011, 07:44:12 AM
For some reason i remember seeing/reading somewhere about a plane shipping concrete pumps to Japan, but it wasn't an AN-225.
Posted by phantomphan1974
 - April 20, 2011, 11:42:59 PM
Guess we did?
Posted by aero-engineer
 - April 20, 2011, 11:30:35 PM
Did we miss this?  I can't find a record of it.
Kevin
aero-engineer

http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_17804309?source=pkg

Massive concrete pumps to be shipped from LAX to Japan nuclear plant

Two massive concrete boom pumps will be shipped this morning from Los Angeles International Airport to help stem the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan.

The pumps, manufactured by Sturtevant, Wisc.-based Putzmeister America, will be sent to Japan's f*kushima province and used to shoot streams of water onto hot spots within the leaking nuclear reactors, company officials said in a news release.

An operator will use a remote control to manipulate the pumps from a safe location more than 1 mile from the reactors.

The pumps, weighing about 190,000 pounds each, are usually used to pour concrete for bridges and high-rise building construction projects. But the machines have "pinpoint" accuracy with a boom reach of more than 227 feet - a capability that's needed in Japan, Putzmeister America executives said.

The large pumps will be loaded onto a Russian Antonov-225 cargo jet, one of the world's largest planes, set to take off from LAX at 5 a.m.