{"id":202,"date":"2009-06-22T11:55:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T06:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/202\/the-largest-airplane-on-earth-the-an-225.htm"},"modified":"2020-04-04T14:41:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T09:11:12","slug":"the-largest-airplane-on-earth-the-an-225","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/the-largest-airplane-on-earth-the-an-225\/","title":{"rendered":"The Largest Airplane on Earth: the An-225"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/antonov-an225-11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 15px 0px; border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/antonov-an225-1-thumb1.png\" alt=\"Antonov-AN225-1\" width=\"565\" height=\"266\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The An-225 Mriya is the largest airplane ever built. It is a &#8220;strategic airlift transport aircraft&#8221; and was manufactured by the Antonov Design Bureau, Kiev,&nbsp; Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/antonov-an225-21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/antonov-an225-2-thumb1.png\" alt=\"Antonov-AN225-2\" width=\"567\" height=\"423\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The plane can transport some of the cargoes that are too large for the other large cargo planes of the day. What gives it this ability is its extra-large cargo deck.<\/p>\n<p>At present there is one An-225 flying; a second one is getting ready for delivery around 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/antonov-an225-31.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/antonov-an225-3-thumb1.png\" alt=\"Antonov-AN225-3\" width=\"566\" height=\"376\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The An-225 is the world&#8217;s heaviest and largest aircraft with a maximum gross weight of 600 tonnes,&nbsp; even bigger than the Airbus A380.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2004, FAI placed the An-225 in the Guinness Book of Records for its 240 records.<\/p>\n<p>What an enormous machine&#8230; imagine the hundreds of thousands of CAD drafting hours taken to produce the thousands of drawings used for its construction!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/lucky2.gif\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The An-225 Mriya is the largest airplane ever built. It is a &#8220;strategic airlift transport aircraft&#8221; and was manufactured by the Antonov Design Bureau, Kiev,&nbsp; Ukraine. &nbsp; The plane can transport some of the cargoes that are too large for the other large cargo planes of the day. What gives it this ability is its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,35],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cad-news","tag-aerospace","tag-an-225"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5658,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/5658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}