![]() As production comes to a close, the A380 will keep flying for decades to come, and Airbus is continuing to fully support A380 operators and their fleets. He currently covers the airline industry through . Products & Services Commercial Aircraft Passenger Aircraft A380 The iconic A380 has flown over 800,000 flights carrying more than 300 million passengers since its entry into service. An economist by background, he’s worked for Flightglobal and Bloomberg. ![]() Miquel Ros is an aviation blogger and consultant. ![]() It’s capable of transporting 90 troops or 20 tons of cargo and has been used in missions as diverse as airlifting woolly mammoths encased in frozen tundra soil out of Russian Arctic or recovering stranded, damaged helicopters from the mountains of Afghanistan – jobs that no other helicopter would have been capable of doing. The Mil Mi-26 may not be the largest helicopter ever built, this honor corresponds to the also Soviet-built Mil V-12, but it’s the largest to have gone into serial production – and it’s still operating with numerous air forces and cargo operators around the world to this day. Host photo agency / RIA Novosti via Getty Images Mil Mi-26 - the largest helicopter to go into serial production. The awkward-looking aircraft, composed of two fuselages joined together (although only one will pressurized to carry the crew,) is designed to meet the needs of the nascent private space industry – its purpose is to act as a flying launch platform to put payloads in orbit. It has not flown yet, but the moment it does, the Stratolaunch, an aircraft project founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen will become the largest wingspan aircraft in history, surpassing the Hughes H-4 Hercules. Taking all of these factors into consideration, we’ve compiled a list of 10 of the largest airplanes in the world. No flying aircraft has yet surpassed the massive wingspan of Howard Hughes’ H-4 Hercules, also called the “Spruce Goose.”īut this is by no means the only measure of the size of an aircraft – weight, length or even volume are equally valid parameters. The new Boeing 777X will be the worlds largest and most efficient twin-engine jet, unmatched in every aspect of performance. ![]() When, or if, the weird-looking Stratolaunch takes off from Mojave, California, as expected in 2019, it will have smashed a record that’s remained unbroken for 71 years. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |