ANTONOV AN-225
In the last class we saw five differents aircrafts, and I would like talk about the Antonov AN-225. is a strategic airlift cargo aircraft that was designed by the antonov Design Bureau Company in the Ukranian SSR within the Soviet Union during the 1980s. It is powered by six t urbofan engines and is the heaviest aircraft ever built , with a maximus take off weight of 640 tonnes The Antonov An-225, initially developed for the task of transporting the Buran spaceplane . The first fligth of the Antonov An-225 was completed in 1988. The airlifter holds the absolute world record for an airlifted single-item payload of 189,980 kilograms. This plane is not made to carry passengers. It only has the capacity to carry the two pilots and up to four more crew members.