China Will Resurrect the World's Largest Plane
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#2Nice to see this incredible cold war era plane not go the way of the concord. But in its case there is still a possibility of a profitable market for transporting very large and heavy machinery via aircraft.
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#3Is this really meant for civilian usage or does anyone think China is trying to match the US military forces projection capabilities?
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#4Is this really meant for civilian usage or does anyone think China is trying to match the US military forces projection capabilities?
Perhaps a bit of both? The article cites both humanitarian and military power projection capabilities.
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#5"84 meters ... 88 meters ... 250 tons ... 300,000 lbs"
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#6Writers! Please don't use "exponentially", which has a precise meaning, in place of a more modest word such as "greatly".
> "China buying and building An-225s would exponentially increase its power capabilities not just in Asia, but across the world."
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#7To make it possible Ukraine and Chine will need to redevelop many technologies that were used to build Mriya. The technologies were gone when USSR collapsed.
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#8The AN-225's little brother the AN-124 was once used to fly a diesel locomotive from Canada to Ireland. It worked out cheaper for the train manufacture to pay to have it flown over, and meet the contractural delivery date, rather than shipping it by sea and paying the fine for missing the deadline.
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#9"84 meters ... 88 meters ... 250 tons ... 300,000 lbs"
The US also operates a fleet of larger cargo planes than the one chosen for the comparison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_C-5_Galaxy
(I think the typical reader will have little intuition for the cargo capacity of the C-17, so the more instructive comparison looks at the most capable operational US plane.)
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#10Can't see the article. It redirects me to http://www.popsci.com.au/?src=redirect with an error: "Oops! Something went wrong. Please scroll down to find your content."