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It is the world's largest passenger airliner and the only full-length double-deck jet airliner. Airbus studies started in 1988, and the project was announced in 1990 to challenge the dominance of the Boeing 747 in the long-haul market. The then-designated A3XX project was presented in 1994 and Airbus launched the €9.5–billion ($10.7 ...
The Ilyushin Il-62 (Russian: Илью́шин Ил-62; NATO reporting name: Classic) is a Soviet long-range narrow-body jetliner conceived in 1960 by Ilyushin.As a successor to the popular turboprop Il-18 and with capacity for almost 200 passengers and crew, the Il-62 was the world's largest jet airliner when first flown in 1963.
Prototype heavy-lift helicopter, largest rotor at 39.6 m Mil Mi-6: 5 June 1957: 44 t: 926 Heavy transport helicopter, 35 m rotor Mil V-12 or Mi-12 10 July 1968: 105 t: 2 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 ...
Dee Brasseur was one of the four selected and in 1988 became one of the two first women in the world to fly the F-18 jet fighter. Khatool Mohammadzai became the first Afghan woman paratrooper in 1984, [215] the same year that Beverly Burns first served as captain on a Boeing 747 for a cross-country trip. [212]
Il-62 "Classic" long-range jet airliner, world's largest airliner when first flew, world's first mass-produced airliner of its category, 1963. Il-86 "Camber" medium-range wide-body jet airliner, first Soviet wide-body and the world's first quad-jet with 100% two floors, 1976. Il-80 "Maxdome" airborne command post developed from the Il-86, 1985.
Fighter 12,571 United States: 1941: 1952 Most-produced carrier aircraft. Many built as Goodyear FG or Brewster F3A. [21] Longest production run of any U.S. piston-engined fighter. Grumman F6F Hellcat: M: Fighter 12,275 United States: 1942: 1945: Boeing 737: C: Jet airliner 11,965+ [22] United States: 1967: present Most-produced jet-powered ...
If built, the aircraft would have been the world's largest, widest, and heaviest airliner. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The concept for the aircraft began in the 1990s with a forecast programme cost of US$10 billion (early published figures were US$4–5.5B) and called for the first aircraft to be built before 2000.
Micky Axton (1919–2010), one of the first three Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs) to be trained as a test pilot; first woman to fly a B-29; Lilian Bland flying the Mayfly in 1911. She built the aircraft herself to become the first woman to fly in Ireland. Asli Hassan Abade, First African female fighter jet pilot. A prominent Somali Air ...