I got a story about them; the AN-225. Paine Field, Everett WA...I was working at Boeing 747/767 Division in Everett. The AN-225…first Russian aircraft to visit USA came over with 2 SU-25's and were escorted into Paine Field by 2 WA ANG F-15’s. They were going to a big airshow in OK City. Anyway, I talked 3 buddies to take an unauthorized tour after the VIPs and media left. So we go right on up the stairs lower level had 2 attack helos, blades folded. We went up spiral stairs to upper deck; power was on & being we were all avionics started doing inventory & amazingly a lot of control heads in English. This was around 84-85 I'm thinkin. Anyway only one guy on board muscular brute way in back I could see he was on a radio. He calmly got up & walked towards us. He was way back there about 80 feet? We were checking out aft cockpit buncha crew berths & he was smiling & just herded us out. We were laughing the whole time. So I was one of first Americans on one. WORD 👍🏽 It was grounded for 3-4 days blew a bunch of tires & melted some brakes. Thing was HUGE with twin vertical stabilizers & dozens of tires it just looked cool. We checked-out the SU-25’s too…much bigger than F-15’s & noticed a lotta popped rivets on airframe’s skin. It was just amazing at the time, and how we just walked on board. I swear we coulda set some satchel charges by those helos & nobody woulda seen us. 😂