5 Amazing Aircrafts That Are The Largest In The World

Airbus A380 World's Largest Passenger Jet Aircraft

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Antonov An-225 Mriya, comes from Ukraine. Not only is this the world’s biggest aircraft with the wingspan of 290 feet and a length of 276 feet, but it’s also the heaviest aircraft with a gross weight of 1,400,000 pounds.

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 The H-4 Hercules. Arguably the standard by which “huge aircraft” are measured as well as how "completely screwed up" is defined. Its one and only flight was in 1947, where it flew for around a mile, reaching altitude of 70 feet.

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The Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft. It was developed for the United States Air Force (USAF) from the 1980s to the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas.

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The Soviet aircraft industry really like building big. World’s largest aircraft from 1930: Giant Russian K-7 flying fortress

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