Dear MEL Topic
Readers,
Rare flight
for the biggest plane in the world
Six engines
and crew members to fly this big boy. He is 84 meters long, 88 meters wide and
18 meters high. He weighs 285 tons himself and can eat as much as 300 tons of
jet fuel and take off as heavy as 640 tons. When in the air, it cruises at
800km/h and flies 4,000 km with 200 tons of cargo. Amazing, isn’t it?
This is how
big this super air carrier Antonov An-225 Mriya is. Originally, he was made to
carry the then Soviet version of Space Shuttle in 1988. After the program
ended, he was converted into a commercial cargo plane specialized in heavy cargo
such as gas machinery and power generator.
A rare flight?
This super-jumbo cargo plane flies only a couple of times a year because the
need for such cargo transport is quite limited.
Enjoy seeing the
photos and learning about this amazing cargo carrier.
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