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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 ...
English: An overlay diagram showing four of the largest airplanes ever built against the largest airship, the LZ 129 Hindenburg: the Hughes H-4 Spruce Goose (aircraft with the greatest wingspan); the Antonov An-225 Mriya (the largest fixed-wing aircraft); the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental (soon to be the largest version of the Boeing 747 Jumbojet); and the Airbus A380-800 (the largest ...
An-225 image gallery: Second Antonov An-225 (line no. 01-02) under construction, September 2004: Second Antonov An-225 under construction, August 2008: Second Antonov An-225 under construction, August 2008: Video; on YouTube The worlds biggest planes: Antonov An-225 in comparison with Airbus A380-800, Airbus A340-600 and Boeing 747-400
Highest passenger capacity airliner until the Airbus A380 Antonov An-124: 26 Dec 1982: Transport: 55: 75.57 yards (69.10 meters) 80.16 yards (73.30 meters) 395.65 tons: 147.63 tons: Most capable transport until the An-225 Antonov An-225 Mriya: 21 Dec 1988: Transport: 1: 91.86 yards (84.00 meters) 96.68 yards (88.40 meters) 629.89 tons: 246.05 tons
With a maximum gross weight of 640,000 kg (1,400,000 lb), the An-225 was the world's heaviest aircraft. Although its wingspan is less than that of the Hughes H-4 "Spruce Goose" , the latter never went beyond a single short low-altitude test flight, making the An-225 the largest aircraft in the world to take off more than once.
Airbus emphasised the longer range of the A380 while using up to 17% shorter runways. [54] The A380-800 has 478 square metres (5,150 sq ft) of cabin floor space, 49% more than the 747-8, while commentators noted the "downright eerie" lack of engine noise, with the A380 being 50% quieter than a 747-400 on takeoff. [55]
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.
projected airliner version of An-225, to compete with the Airbus A380 An-318 Cancelled: A planned trijet to compete with the DC-10 and L-1011 TriStar [36] An-325: Cancelled: planned enlarged, eight-engine version of An-225, intended for launching rockets An-418 Cancelled