Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Photos: World Largest Plane..The Antonov

  The six-engine, 600 tonne aircraft was initially built to transport the Soviet space shuttle 'the Buran' in the late 1980s 
The world's largest plane has 42 tyres and a wingspan of 88 metres - over 20 metres wider than the Boeing 747

Powered by six engines it is able to take off with a maximum weight of 600 tons.

The Antonov An-225 is a strategic airlift cargo aircraft that was originally designed by the then Soviet Union's Antonov Design Bureau in the 1980s




  Perspective: The world's largest plane has 42 tyres and a wingspan of 88 metres - over 20 metres wider than the Boeing 747
  The plane is a strategic airlift cargo aircraft which was originally designed by the then Soviet Union's Antonov Design Bureau in the 1980s
  Powered by six engines it is able to take off with a maximum weight of 600 tons
  Perth Airport are anticipating a crowd as large as 50,000 could come to watch the historic moment when the world's largest plane touches down
  Global logistics company DB Schenker, hired to facilitate the challenging resource shipment, said the plane would spend two days at the international terminal before taking off again 
  Pictured is the Antonov An-225 Mriya (Ukrainian for 'dream') carrying 'the Buran' Soviet space shuttle, on display at the Paris Air show in 1989



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