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US military to get world’s largest cargo plane to haul fighters, Apaches, boosters

Current heavy airlifters such as the C-5M Galaxy, C-17 Globemaster III, and A400M Atlas often run out of space before they ...

WindRunner is coming! Can the world's largest cargo plane ferry 4 F-35Cs, 4 F-16s, 12 AH-64 Apache choppers in its belly?

Compared to the military cargo planes in service, an aircraft which will dwarf all of them is being proposed and is likely to ...
Lincoln Journal Star

Huge plane, huge cargo come through Lincoln

Huge plane. Huge cargo. Long runway. Noteworthy destination. Together they made for an extraordinary landing, loading and takeoff Friday at Lincoln Airport. The plane: a Russian Antonov 124, one of ...
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World’s largest cargo aircraft lands in Abu Dhabi

The world’s largest cargo aircraft, the Antonov AN225, landed at Abu Dhabi International Airport for the first time on Saturday. Arriving from Kiev with 160 tons of cargo, the plane was unloaded and ...

Is The Boeing 777 Bigger Than The Ilyushin Il-76?

The Boeing 777 is the world's largest twinjet, but is it larger than the large Soviet-era quad-engine freighter, the Ilyushin ...

This Is America's Most Massive Military Jet (And How Much It Can Carry)

The C-5M Super Galaxy is 247 feet long with a wingspan of 222 feet. It can carry over 280,000 pounds of cargo inside its ...