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The World's Largest Cargo Plane Can Swallow a 737 Whole
Whether you need to get an airliner across a continent without flying it, piggyback a space shuttle to its launch site, or ship Snoop Dog's oversized tour stage to Nigeria, you're going to need the world's biggest and strongest aircraft: the Antonov An-225. (gizmodo.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Supposing it's true, how much does it cost to fly a 737 to destination X as opposed to flying a loaded AN-225? Unless the 737 is unflyable, this is not good business.
WHAOU....it onces landed in CDG - The take-off is always fantastic
They also copied the NASA 747 split tail design for the same reason. Stability with the eternal cargo. BTW NASA 905 747 will be moved to Space Center Houston by Boeing one of these days. I think she has made her last flight already.
Saw her parked at Ellington a couple of weeks ago. No activity around her that I could see.
I got to see this plane "up close and personal" at Rickenbacker Airport in Columbus, OH in 2004 (I think). It was picking up a load (!!??) of generators. I talked to some of the crew and got to walk around the plane - it is huge! Also, in line with typical Soviet design philosophy, it seemed to be very ruggedly built. Look at the basic empty weight - nearly 630,000 lbs - as compared to, say, a more-or-less contemporary 747-400, at only about 393,000 lbs. Yeah, it's larger - very much so - but it's also an economic failure.
This is not true. The 737 and the tail which is 41 feet, I would be amazed.
It WAS Russian...now it's proudly Ukrainian. They should build an additional pair...