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10 incredible goods transported by air
Air to classify the direction, category and type of cargo loading, but sometimes there are examples that defies classification.
10. Kit orca
The killer whale Keiko, the star of the American film "Free Willy," was to air passengers twice - first brought him from Mexico to Oregon by a C-130 Hercules, and then to the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III whale was brought back to his native Iceland, where he was later released into the wild.
9. Ophthalmology Clinic
Non-profit organization Orbis International to build a "flying hospital" based on the aircraft McDonnell Douglas DC-10. Complete ophthalmologic clinic with an international team of doctors was meant for the treatment of eye diseases in developing countries, where there is no adequate medical infrastructure.
8. Cows
Cattle, too, sometimes need air transport. The pilots of the Boeing 747, one transporting 390 cows over the Irish Sea, were frightened fire alarm. As it turned out after the emergency landing, sensitive sensors raised the alarm because of the heat of cow bodies.
7. V-22 tiltrotor Osprey
Serial tiltrotor V-22 Osprey, combining the capabilities of the aircraft and the helicopter can not be called small, but it effortlessly fit in a cargo plane Aero Spacelines Super Guppy.
6. Additives taste of dog food
90 tons of flavors of dog food for the day were sent to France by a Boeing 747. The mixture is coveted for dogs chemicals, the taste of which we can only guess, took all the cargo compartment of the aircraft.
5. The fuselage C-130
Transporting fuselage C-130 Hercules using military transport aircraft increased weight Lockheed C-5 Galaxy C-5 demanded that the military for more than two years of planning and testing.
4. All Paris-Dakar
In 2000, the Paris-Dakar race was under threat of guerrilla attacks in Niger, so that all the grand event "assembly" - from people to vehicles - were delivered to Libya, where the race resumed. To do this, it took three heavy transport aircraft An-124 "Ruslan", which carried out 18 flights, and $ 5 million.
3. Giant laser
The experimental aircraft Boeing YAL-1 based on 747 carried in the nose of a big laser gun designed to destroy missiles. However, after testing the project was closed.
2. Nuclear reactor
American aircraft with a nuclear reactor on board the Convair NB-36H has been built and tested in 1955. Later, in 1961, the Soviet Union built Tu-119, which was also equipped with a nuclear power plant. In the mid-1960s, both governments turned their projects and abandoned further development "atomoletov».
1. The 190-ton generator
AN-225 "Mriya" itself is the heavy transport aircraft in the world, and in 2013 he moved from Zurich, Switzerland to Bahrain generator weighing 190 tons, the largest object ever transported by air.
10. Kit orca
The killer whale Keiko, the star of the American film "Free Willy," was to air passengers twice - first brought him from Mexico to Oregon by a C-130 Hercules, and then to the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III whale was brought back to his native Iceland, where he was later released into the wild.
9. Ophthalmology Clinic
Non-profit organization Orbis International to build a "flying hospital" based on the aircraft McDonnell Douglas DC-10. Complete ophthalmologic clinic with an international team of doctors was meant for the treatment of eye diseases in developing countries, where there is no adequate medical infrastructure.
8. Cows
Cattle, too, sometimes need air transport. The pilots of the Boeing 747, one transporting 390 cows over the Irish Sea, were frightened fire alarm. As it turned out after the emergency landing, sensitive sensors raised the alarm because of the heat of cow bodies.
7. V-22 tiltrotor Osprey
Serial tiltrotor V-22 Osprey, combining the capabilities of the aircraft and the helicopter can not be called small, but it effortlessly fit in a cargo plane Aero Spacelines Super Guppy.
6. Additives taste of dog food
90 tons of flavors of dog food for the day were sent to France by a Boeing 747. The mixture is coveted for dogs chemicals, the taste of which we can only guess, took all the cargo compartment of the aircraft.
5. The fuselage C-130
Transporting fuselage C-130 Hercules using military transport aircraft increased weight Lockheed C-5 Galaxy C-5 demanded that the military for more than two years of planning and testing.
4. All Paris-Dakar
In 2000, the Paris-Dakar race was under threat of guerrilla attacks in Niger, so that all the grand event "assembly" - from people to vehicles - were delivered to Libya, where the race resumed. To do this, it took three heavy transport aircraft An-124 "Ruslan", which carried out 18 flights, and $ 5 million.
3. Giant laser
The experimental aircraft Boeing YAL-1 based on 747 carried in the nose of a big laser gun designed to destroy missiles. However, after testing the project was closed.
2. Nuclear reactor
American aircraft with a nuclear reactor on board the Convair NB-36H has been built and tested in 1955. Later, in 1961, the Soviet Union built Tu-119, which was also equipped with a nuclear power plant. In the mid-1960s, both governments turned their projects and abandoned further development "atomoletov».
1. The 190-ton generator
AN-225 "Mriya" itself is the heavy transport aircraft in the world, and in 2013 he moved from Zurich, Switzerland to Bahrain generator weighing 190 tons, the largest object ever transported by air.
