Russian Indu stry Struggles to Fly

When the United States needed somebody to retrieve a damaged USNavy EP-3 Orion re-connaissance aircraft,it turned to a Russian airline. Flying the giant Soviet-built Antonov An-124.the world’s largestoperational transport,the Polyot company from the Volga city ofUlyanovsk was able to haul(拖运)the huge $80 million American planehome in a single trip.