or the Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo plane. This last machine has been in the news for all the wrong reasons over the last few days, with reports emerging that it may have been destroyed in the ...

With a wingspan of 500 feet, 12 engines, 56 wheels and a carrying capacity of 2,3 million pounds - this plane was five times more powerful than an Antonov An-225 and could be listed as the most ...

The An-124 is the little brother of the even-more-gigantic Antonov An-225 Mriya, which was built in the 1960s and had six jet engines, but was destroyed in 2022 when Russia attacked Ukraine.