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With a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tonnes (705 short tons), the An-225 held several records, including heaviest aircraft ever built and largest wingspan of any operational aircraft. It was commonly used to transport objects once thought impossible to move by air, such as 130-ton generators, wind turbine blades, and diesel locomotives .
Type MTOW [kg] MLW [tonnes] TOR [m] LR [m] ICAO category FAA category; Antonov An-225: 640,000: 591.7: 3,500: Super: Super Scaled Composites Model 351 Stratolaunch
In order to airlift the Buran space shuttle, in 1988 Soviet Union introduced the sole Antonov An-225 Mriya (dream). With a ( maximum takeoff weight greater than 640 tonnes (1,410,000 lb) and a wing span of 88.4 metres (290 ft), it was the largest operational aeroplane in the world.
The maximum take-off weight is limited by a combination of the maximum net power of the engines and the lift/drag ratio of the wings. The diagonal line after the range-at-maximum-payload point shows how reducing the payload allows increasing the fuel (and range) when taking off with the maximum take-off weight.
AN-225 with the Soviet Space Shuttle, Buran. The Antonov An-225 Mriya (Антонов Ан-225 Мрія, NATO reporting name : Cossack ) was a strategic airlift transport aircraft built by Antonov , and was the world's largest powered aircraft before its destruction in February 2022.
Max takeoff weight kg (lb)) Cargo hold Length m (ft) Cargo hold Width m (ft) Cargo hold Height m (ft) Ferry Range (no payload) km (nmi) Range with max payload km (nmi) Range with specified payload km (nmi) Range with specified payload km (nmi) Soviet Union (Ukraine) Antonov An-225: 247 640,000 (1,410,000) 43.35 (142.2) 6.4 (21) 4.4 (14) 15,400 ...
The BelugaST fleet was reaching its limits, flying five times daily, and six days per week, for 10,000 hours in 2017, while some parts are moved over land. [9] The time required for a BelugaST to move the parts of an A320 is three times as long as for the BelugaXL, and nine times longer for A350 parts.
The Vickers Vernon, introduced in 1921, was the first cargo plane for military troops The Arado Ar 232, the first purpose built cargo aircraft A U.S. Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules, the archetypal military transport aircraft, over the Atlantic Ocean in 2014 The Antonov An-225 Mriya, the heaviest cargo aircraft