The eight-engine Hughes H4 Hercules “Spruce Goose” may have been the ... The huge six-engine Antonov An-225 “Mriya” may have been the safest plane ever with its huge redundancy array.

The Antonov 225, the world's largest airplane, has six turbofan engines and a maximum takeoff weight of 700 tons. The Antonov 225 is in the Twin Cities to pick up Trane air-conditioning equipment ...

If you're an aviation fan, you've probably heard of the Antonov An-225 "Mriya." This jet was once the world's largest, powered by its six huge turbofan engines. However, the jet made the news in ...

The Antonov AN-124, first manufactured in the ... but famed aviator Howard Hughes’ colossal Hughes H-4 Hercules, nicknamed the Spruce Goose, is as impressive as ever. It has a 320-foot (98m ...

The Hughes H-4 Hercules, also known as the Spruce Goose ... in fourth place is the Soviet-built Antonov An-124 Ruslan. It now holds the title of being the largest Antonov aircraft after the beloved ...

On Nov. 2, 1947 the largest flying boat ever built, the Spruce Goose, flew for the first and only time ... until it was surpassed by the Antonov An-225 Mriya in 1985. Wanting proof of its ...

The Ukrainian aviation company Antonov has its roots in the Soviet ... leading to the press pejoratively calling it the "Spruce Goose," much to the chagrin of Hughes since it used no spruce ...

Critics called the airplane the “Spruce Goose” or “Flying Lumberyard ... nm), at a speed of 532 mph (462 knots). Or the Antonov An-225, another one-of-a-kind airplane that nearly matched ...

Powered by no less than six massive turbofan engines, the Antonov An-225 “Mriya” is the world’s biggest cargo plane that is currently in operation. A serial record-breaker, the aircraft is ...

The Antonov AN-225 Mriya ... By comparison, the wingspan of the Hughes H-4 Hercules, the famous Spruce Goose, was 30 feet longer, but that plane is shorter than the Mriya and flew only once.