Originally posted by gkurey
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the an225 is the biggest heaviest airplane ever made. only the spruce goose had a bigger wing span but this thing is longer and carries exponentially more weight.
it was originally designed and built to carry the russian version of the space shuttle. they built one and were in the process of building a second when the soviet union crumbled. the first one crashed a couple years ago. i believe it was a total loss. i think the one in my photo above was the second one that they apparently finished building recently. so, basically, there is only one.
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