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The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a large military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed, and now maintained and upgraded by its successor, Lockheed Martin.It provides the United States Air Force (USAF) with a heavy intercontinental-range strategic airlift capability, one that can carry outsized and oversized loads, including all air-certifiable cargo.
The US Federal Aviation Administration defines a large aircraft as any aircraft with a certificated maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) of more than 12,500 lb (5,700 kg) [1] The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) defines a large aircraft as either "an aeroplane with a maximum take-off mass of more than 12,566.35 pounds (5,700.00 kilograms) or a ...
English: An overlay diagram showing five of the largest airplanes ever built, the Hughes H-4 Spruce Goose (airplane with the greatest height), the Antonov An-225 Mriya (the largest airplane), the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental (the largest version of the Boeing 747 Jumbojet), the Airbus A380-800 (the largest passenger airplane), and the Scaled Composites Stratolaunch (airplane with the greatest ...
This is a list of aircraft sorted by maximum takeoff weight. Airplanes ... Lockheed C-5 Galaxy [5] [6] [7] 381,000: 288.417: 2,530: 1,494: Heavy: Heavy Boeing 747-200 [8]
The Short Belfast (or Shorts Belfast) [2] is a heavy lift turboprop freighter that was built by British manufacturer Short Brothers at Belfast.Only 10 aircraft were constructed, all of which entered service with the Royal Air Force (RAF), who operated it under the designation Short Belfast C.1.
This aircraft had two X353-5 engines, each consisting of a 62.5-inch-diameter [6] lift-fan driven by a gas generator (J85). The bpr in VTOL operation was 12.3. [ 7 ] This tip-turbine driven lift-fan concept was turned 90 degrees and developed as an 80-inch-diameter "cruise fan" demonstrator, driven by a J79 gas generator. [ 4 ]
There have been 2,751 aircraft crashes with a fatality in Texas in more than 50 years, according to planecrashmap.com.. Last September, a Navy jet crashed into a Lake Worth neighborhood after a ...
In the early 1970s, two SGT aircraft were used by Airbus to transport airplane parts from production facilities to the final assembly plant in Toulouse. In 1982 and 1983, two additional Super Guppy Turbines were built by Union de Transports Aériens Industries in France after Airbus bought the right to produce the aircraft.