11 Airplanes Big Enough to Carry Your House

we'll start our top 10 with the smallest plane in the world the star bumblebee it was built specifically to set a world record and get this title its wingspan is smaller than the average person's height and the length of the plane is the same as a regular sedan but this baby can surprise you its maximum speed is similar to a supercar 190 miles per hour still it has only risen in the air a few times and it even had to make an emergency landing but no one was injured and the restored plane was given to a private collection by the way the cost of building one star bumblebee was about ten thousand dollars so it was really a regular sedan among the planes one that could only carry one person next on the list is a cessna 172 this airplane is also a record breaker not for its size this time but for the number of built units to date more than 45 000 aircraft have been built and it remains in production since 1956. as for its size its length can be compared with the length of a limousine and the wingspan is a little less than a school bus far fewer people can board it though only the pilot plus three passengers in 1959 this aircraft set a world record for the duration of a refueling flight two pilots took off at a las vegas airport and landed there in 64 days 22 hours and 19 minutes without refueling the latest cessna model can fly 800 miles it's like the distance from san francisco to las vegas and back we move on to larger and more powerful aircraft embraer legacy 600 it's slightly longer than a subway car but much more comfortable figures after all it's a private aircraft worth 25 million dollars but if you want one then be prepared to pay an additional 500 thousand to one million dollars a year just for plane maintenance now this plane is similar to a beluga whale in its shape actually that's what it's called airbus a300 600 st beluga it's designed to carry aircraft parts and external cargo it's also transported space shuttles it looks like a mother airplane carrying her baby beluga was the one who transported the columbus module for the iss its length is like two baseball fields and almost the same wingspan its cargo bay is so big that it can easily accommodate the fuselage of another plane amazingly it only takes two people to fly such a huge machine but despite the size of its cargo compartment beluga can lift no more than 47 tons or 30 hippos whatever they prefer on board its cost is about 180 million euros it's almost like a fleet of 600 cessnas boeing 787 dreamliner it's one of the most efficient aircraft in the world this airplane holds the record for the longest flight without refueling in march 2020 it flew from papierte to paris the plane flew without landing for almost 16 hours and covered a distance of over 9 700 miles this is like the distance from new york to los angeles four times the cost of this big guy is estimated at 300 million dollars this is like 30 of the most expensive rolls-royces or 30 million cinema tickets hughes h4 hercules this is actually a flying boat and it was made of wood it's the biggest flying boat ever built and it had an enormous wingspan 321 feet to get this thing in the air eight propeller engines were used each with 3 000 horsepower and even though this water monster was built in 1947 it could lift more cargo than the modern airbus beluga hercules could lift a weight of 59 tons that's like a modern tank or about 30 suvs but originally it was built to transport about 750 people at a time still the payload and maximum speed of this aircraft remain an issue this wooden guy has only made one flight in its life it climbed to a height of about 65 feet and flew 1.2 miles above los angeles harbor despite this engineer howard hughes kept this monster in working condition for almost 30 years spending about 1 million dollars per year airbus a380 this is the largest passenger plane in the world it has two decks and can accommodate about 850 passengers it's like a population of a small village all on board one airplane to accommodate this many passengers it has an impressive size its length is almost as much as a soccer field as is its wingspan and its height is more than a seven story building on top of all this the airbus can travel incredible distances without refueling it can take off in iceland and land on the tip of south america the only disadvantage of a380 is its price 445 million dollars with this money you can buy four private islands in the british virgin islands a saudi prince once bought one of these and modified it into a private aircraft now it looks like an expensive mansion or hotel inside it has become the largest and most expensive private jet it's estimated to cost about 500 million dollars oh and by the way just to take off this giant needs a runway of almost 10 000 feet so not all airports in the world can take an airbus a380 scaled composites model 351 stratolaunch an unusual name for an aircraft but its appearance is even more bizarre this aircraft fears the title of the longest wingspan in aviation history of all time 385 feet this is more than the length of a soccer field plus a limousine the pilot co-pilot and flight engineer are in the right fuselage cockpit the cockpit of the left fuselage is used as a storage unit six powerful engines help this giant take off and eight racks with a total number of 28 wheels helped the big guy to land strata launch was designed to launch pegasus rockets from it but now it's going to be used to launch hypersonic flights well whatever its purpose pilots will have to be careful because so far there's only one strata launch model 351 in the world jumbo jet or boeing 747 this is the world's first long-haul double-deck aircraft this baby held the title of the heaviest and most capacious aircraft for 36 years until airbus a380 appeared its wingspan is more than the length of a hockey field and its length is 250 feet which is equal to the height of 15 giraffes this aircraft set a record for the number of passengers on one flight during a rescue operation in ethiopia there were 1086 people on board the 747 this plane was also used to transport the president of the united states or his first lady in this case the aircraft was assigned a call sign air force one or air force one foxtrot and the cargo version of this plane was used for transportation of the space shuttle from reserve airfields to the place of its launch at cape canaveral antonov an-225 maria is the heaviest aircraft ever built it also has the largest wingspan of any aircraft and operational service the distance between the tips of its wings is almost like the length of a soccer field and its body length is 275 feet this is like six school buses in a row naturally it's a power lifter among planes in 2009 antonov was listed in the guinness book of records for lifting the heaviest mono cargo in aviation history 187 tons that's like 1 000 of the smallest aircraft in the world the star bumblebee or four boeing 737s but the absolute record for antonov's lifting capacity is 253 tons this is like half the tallest building in the world the burj khalifa well the records of this aircraft are quite long since its first flight the am-225 has set 240 world records this is a unique case in aviation and is in fact a record itself this thing is not exactly an airplane but it deserves a place on our list the caspian sea monster it was an experimental wing ship that means it used air force reflected from the surface of the earth or water to stay in the air formally it was a ship as it could fly at an altitude of only a few meters but it looked more like an amphibian and only pilots could fly it a pretty complicated system right for a long time it was the heaviest plane in the world when it was empty it weighed 240 tons that's like 60 elephants and it took 10 engines to get this thing in the air five on each side but it still had enough speed to get from new york to washington in half an hour

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Length: 10min 28sec (628 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 17 2020