AN-225 Bashny.Net

The plane was built on Kyiv mechanical factory in the 80s. 20th century only two copies. At present there are only one, it is owned by a Ukrainian company Antonov Airlines. The original function was to be the heavyweight handling of heavy components for assembly of the spacecraft from the production site to the start. Later, the aircraft began to be used for other purposes, especially involving the transportation of heavy loads. An-225 is a true champion. In August 2009, the aircraft was entered in the Guinness Book of Records for the carriage of the largest in the history of aviation monocargo weighing 187, 6 tons. It was a generator weighing 174 tons, which was transported along with a special frame from Frankfurt to Yerevan for a new Armenian power. In total, the aircraft - the owner of some 250 world records.
It is not only the weight of cargo that a plane can carry, but are themselves the parameters of this sverhmashiny. The length of the An-225 is 84 m., Height - more than 18 m., And the area of the wing - approximately 905 m².