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Largest prototype helicopter, 2 × 35 m rotors Mil Mi-26: 14 December 1977: 56 t: 316 Heaviest serial production helicopter Fairey Rotodyne: 6 November 1957: 15 t 1 Largest gyrodyne. Prototype for 40 passengers Kamov Ka-22: 15 August 1959: 42.5 t 4 composite rotorcraft Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey: 19 March 1989: 21.5 t 400 First operational VTOL ...
Most-produced heavy bomber and multi-engine aircraft. Includes 962 built by Douglas, [15] 6,792 by Ford Motor Company and 966 by North American. Does not include related PB4Y-2 Privateer. [14] Antonov An-2 / An-3: C: Biplane, utility / agricultural: 18,000+ Soviet Union: 1947: 2009 Most-produced transport; longest production run of any ...
The giant airships of the 1930s remain, as of 2016, the largest aircraft ever constructed, while the Hughes H-4 "Spruce Goose" of 1947 had the largest wingspan of any fixed-wing type. The Hybrid Air Vehicles Airlander 10 hybrid airship is the largest aircraft flying today.
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 .
The Airbus A380-800 is the world's largest passenger aircraft with a maximum capacity of 853. It seats 193 more passengers than the Boeing 747-400.
During this flight, it ascended to about 3,000 ft (910 m) at 160 mph (257 km/h) and landed at 115 mph (185 km/h), throttling back at 50 ft (15 m). The British press mainly reported favourably, one newspaper praising the aircraft as being "the queen of the skies, the largest land-plane ever built". [1]
China Eastern Airlines said on Thursday it will buy another 100 C919 airplanes in a deal worth $10 billion at list prices, in what would be the largest ever order for the jet made by the ...
The Convair B-36 "Peacemaker" [N 1] is a strategic bomber built by Convair and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1949 to 1959. The B-36 is the largest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft ever built, although it was exceeded in span and weight by the one-off Hughes H-4 Hercules.