10. Saunders-Roe SR.45 Princess – span 66,90 meters
took off As the Princess 1952 first flight, she was the largest all-metal flying boat ever built. To 45 metres in length the luxurious SR bot.45 space for up to 105 passengers. However, the problem is prone to propeller drive and the emergence of jet engines caused a sudden end: a Princess with a massive double-hull was ever completed.
9. Lockheed C-5 Super Galaxy – span 67,88 meters
for 14 years, from the first flight 1968 to 1982, was the C-5 Galaxy, the largest transport aircraft in the world – before it was replaced by the Soviet Antonov an-124. Until today, it was in the US Air Force no successor for the C-5, which is why the 52 in the service of present specimens were first subjected to 2018 is a comprehensive modernisation.
8. Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental “Jumbo-Jet” – wingspan 68,40 meters
The Boeing 747, colloquially known as the Jumbo Jet, you can probably be as’s most legendary passenger aircraft in the history. The latest variant, the 747-8 that took off in 2011 for the first Time, has grown in comparison to the ancestor, once again, to 5,60 on 76,30 metres in length and can carry 500 passengers up to 16’000 miles.
7. Bristol Brabazon – span 70,10 meters
The Brabazon, the Bristol is the largest ever in the UK-made aircraft. After the first flight in 1949, the giant bird, but the same fate as the Saunders-Roe Princess: to complex drive technology suffered, too vulnerable, to be uneconomic. The only prototype of the Brabazon was finally scrapped in 1953.
6. Convair XC-99 – span 70,12 meters
With around 55 metres in length and over 120 tons of departure mass is the 1947 dedicated Transporter for the U.S. Air Force, the largest ever built land plane with piston drive. On two Decks, the Convair XC-99 offered a lot of space – so much so that only about half could be used without overloading. The single piece stands today in the U.S. Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio.
5. Antonov an-124 “Ruslan” span 73,30 meters
by The Soviets as a counterpart to the US-Transporter Lockheed C-5 Galaxy-designed Antonov an-124 – nickname Ruslan – with up to 150 tons of payload, even today – about 37 years after its first flight – the leading aircraft for civilian heavy-load transports. Its robust chassis enables the an-124 take-offs and landings, even on frozen snow or on gravel.
4. Airbus A380 – span 79,80 meters
If a maximum of 560 tons of take-off, leaves no aviation Fan cold. So fascinating is the largest member of the Airbus family is, so little success, he gains. From the calculated requirement of 1235 aircraft to Cover the development to be built costs up to 2021 only 251. The A380 is that many airports are simply too big. The production is scheduled to expire next year.
3. Antonov an-225 “Mriya” – a span of 88,40 metres
The big brother of the an-124 is the heaviest and longest airplane in the world – however, the land-225, nickname, myria, in the span of only on place 3. Nevertheless, the Mega-Transporter 240 world records: the heaviest ever transported freight (247 t Oil) until – no joke – the highest art exhibition of 500 paintings to over 10’000 metres above the sea!
2. Hughes H-4 “Spruce Goose” wingspan 97,54 meters
more Than 70 years, the Spruce Goose was the largest ever built airplane in the world. But it’s not just the giant flying boat because of metal has been built in the absence in the Second world war, made entirely of wood, it stood only a single Time! During the maiden flight in 1947, raised it in front of Long Beach (USA) for about 1.5 kilometres out of the water and reached 160 km/h top.
1. STRATO-launch Carrier Aircraft wingspan 117,00 meters
designed The STRATO-launch is as a carrier for manned rocket launches. The US companies took advantage of two Boeing 747-400s and Federation of the two hulls a wing piece to each other. After the successful first flight on 13. In 2019, it was April, however, the STRATO-launch: Allegedly, the plane is now for sale.
