Russian aircraft have huge amounts of titanium in their construction. Especially in cargo floors of aircraft like the Antonov AN124. The whole floor is titanium. No floor limits. Some years back, I think in 1991, the first AN124 arrived in SA and was parked at Safair, along with the Concord. I was employed by Safair at that time and watched the cargo people from the then Safair cargo load this aircraft with forklifts. They drove onto the aircraft with three or four forklifts at a time carrying full loads on the forks. The floor was jumping up behind the moving forklifts and looked like waves on a river but the Russian crew of the aircraft were completely unfazed and did not intervene. Seems there was no problem and they informed me then there are no floor limits due to the titanium floor installed. Titanium is hellishly expensive and scarce in the Western world, but apparently freely available in Russia in huge quantities. Before the Powers That Be decide to destroy a beautiful part of the country to line their own pockets again I think the Green Squad needs to get busy to block this. I wander what Kortbroek V Schalkwyk has to say about this? They forced people to remove holiday homes from this area because it was ecologically sensitive and now they want to mine the same area. If Russia genuinely has so much freely available then let the world go and buy from them. They sell off nuclear technology at dirt cheap prices to dictators and despots, I'm sure they wont mind selling titanium to Boeing.