World's largest aircraft lands at Boeing Field on Friday

[Chief]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/photos/popup.asp?gtitle=World%27s%20largest%20airplane&SubID=2831&page=0&css=gtitle.css

Here's a link to a great set of pictures that the PI has online showing an Antonov AN-225 that landed on Friday for a cargo pickup. Scan through these images, and compare the amount of wing droop between the An-225 as it is landing, and when it is parked on the ramp. Looks to me like the wingtips flex at least 10 feet or more!!

;D

[Waterbuffalo]

hehe Don't the Russians know how to build BIG, sturdy and long lasting things?

I love the russian planes.. So interesting and Non-American types.. (Just love the technical aspects of them.. Not saying the American stuff is bad, but when you live so close to the real commercial plane division, you get to see the same designs over and over again..)

Now if I can get a vision of that replica space shuttle they built, "THAT" would be interesting.

[Chief]

Ask and ye shall recieve...this is Buran; it flew once via remote control and I believe it rests in Gorky Park in Moscow now.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/buran.gif

Go look at the Antonov again, and notice how similar it is to our C-5 Galaxy, only larger. the C-5 has 2 engines per wing where the AN-225 has three. The Soviets were very adept at copying our designs...

[Pat Campbell]

As a kid I remember watching the first B-47's at Boeing Field from the hill to the east. The wings on that plane really drooped.

[Waterbuffalo]

Yeah, I remember those days beng young and learning about the cold war copies.. Darn wish I wasn't so young in the 1980s.