It has a maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) of about 705 tons, and it can carry 250 tons of cargo internally inside its 280-sqm ...

There’s a reason crowds flock to see the Soviet-built AN-225 wherever it lands. Created to carry the USSR’s space shuttle, this behemoth of the skies is still working today, and is still the ...

The Antonov An-225 Mriya is, quite simply, the largest airplane in the world. At 275 feet in length with a 290 foot wingspan and a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tons, it dwarfs 787’s.

The Antonov An-225 "Mriya" saga continues, even after the malicious February 27, 2022,attack that destroyed the first of the world's largest aircraft. Now that Microsoft, through selling an add-on ...

The one-of-a-kind Antonov An-225 lifts off from Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in 2005. ... Once inside the cargo bay, the payload is secured with heavy chains, each rated for 20 tons.

The Kurds are building a new $300 million airport in Irbil that will take the biggest aircraft in the world, including the Russian Antonov 225 cargo plane and the American C-5 Galaxy, which is so ...

The sheared nose cone of the Antonov An-225 cargo plane towers over Yevhen Bashynsky. Affectionately known as the Mriya, or “Dream,” the leviathan plane was the pride of Ukraine and of 38-year ...

The never completed second An-225 stored by Antonov. (Photo: Pavlo Fedykovych via CNN) The construction of the second Mriya began in 1989. In 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed, but the assembly of ...

It has a maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) of about 705 tons, and it can carry 250 tons of cargo internally inside its 280-sqm cargo bay. On the other hand, the 747-8 only has an MTOW of 493.5 tons ...

There’s a reason crowds flock to see the Soviet-built AN-225 wherever it lands. Created to carry the USSR’s space shuttle, this behemoth of the skies is still working today, and is still the ...

Antonov officials say another An-225 was partially built -- but abandoned in the 1990s because of a lack of funds. The current plan is to use what they already have as the basis for a new plane.