Evergreen Airlines Boeing 747 aircraft of World's Largest Fire

  The plane made its first-ever drop in the continental United States when fire officials summoned it to the Oak Glen fire east of Los Angeles mid day on Monday. After the successful first drop, the Supertanker was called back into action Monday evening where it made further drops on the massive Station fire north of the city which grew to more than 164 square miles and threatened 10,000 homes. Nearly 2,600 firefighters from as far away as Montana are throwing everything they have at the blaze, and on Monday they called in the biggest tool in their inventory. Supertanker, a 747-100 modified by Evergreen Aviation of Oregon, can deliver more than 20,000 gallons of fire retardant with considerable accuracy using its...

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Antonov 225 Mriya the biggest plane

Antonov An-225 Mriya (Ukrainian: Антонов Ан Мрія-225) is a cargo aircraft designed by the Soviet Antonov Design Bureau. This aircraft is the world's heaviest aircraft. At first An-225 is designed to transport the Buran orbiter, and an expansion of a previously successful aircraft made ​​An-124 Ruslan. Last name is Mriya aircraft (Мрiя) means "Dream" (Inspiration) in Russian language. The aircraft An-225 first flew on 21 December 1988. And in 1989 this aircraft was first formally introduced to the public at the Paris Air Show. In 1990, the aircraft is a flight which was witnessed by the public at the Farnborough Air Show 1990. After the cancellation of the Buran space program, the only An-225 aircraft built, eventually stored in the spring...

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history of the first airplane flight

The first flight carried out on 17 December 1903 at Kill Devil Hill near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Each of the two brothers had made two flights on that day. The first flight, which carried Orville Wright lasted 12 seconds and reaches a distance of 120 feet. The last flight, which carried Wilbur Wright, lasts 59 seconds and reaches a height of 852 feet. The plane who they named Flyer I (now known by the nickname Kitty Hawk) takes the cost of manufacture less than 1000 dollars. The plane had a wing 40 feet long and weighs about 750 pounds, measuring 12-horsepower engine, weighing only 170 pounds. The original aircraft is now stored neatly in the Air and Space Museum Washington DC Although there are five witnesses when the first flight, relatively...

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boeing-747 - comercial aircraft

Boeing 747, also known as the Jumbo Jet, is the second largest passenger plane today, after the A380 which will be operational in late October 2007.   This four-engine aircraft, manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, uses two deck configuration where the upper deck is used for business class. 3-class configuration (first class, business class and economy class) able to accommodate 400 passengers and 1-class configuration (only economy class only) able to accommodate 600 passengers.   747 can fly at high speeds (typically 0.85 Mach or 909 kilometers per hour) and is capable of flying between continents (with a maximum distance of 13,570 km for 747-400 series, such as flying from New York to Hong Kong nonstop)....

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airbus A380 - commercial aircraft

Airbus A380 manufactured by Airbus S.A.S. is a two-level plane, with four machines able to carry 850 passengers in single class configuration or 555 passengers in three class configuration. The aircraft was carrying out the first flight on 27 April 2005 and will begin commercial flights in late 2007 after a postponed several times. The aircraft is also a commercial aircraft (passenger aircraft), the largest ever made.  When the first airplane built and flew up into the size of the aircraft continues to be made bigger. In 1950 Boeing produced 707 large. then in 1970, Boeing launched the Boeing 747 manufacturing and the even larger. In 2006, the aircraft up into the giant new A380.   This aircraft has four engines made...

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Boeing 2707 - supersonic aircraft

Boeing 2707 was developed as the first American supersonic aircraft (SST). After winning a competition for government-funded contract to build the American SST, Boeing started construction at its facility in Seattle, Washington.Tetapi aircraft production was canceled. least cost and lack of marketing led to the cancellation of production in 19...

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Lockheed L-2000 - supersonic aircraft

Lockheed L-2000 is the design of supersonic aircraft Lockheed Corporation in a competition funded by the government to build the first supersonic transport the United States' (SST) in 1960. L-2000 lost a contract with Boeing in 2707, but the design of both competing and ultimately canceled due to political reasons, environmental and economic. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy is committed to subsidize 75% of the development of commercial aircraft to compete with the Concorde. Director of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Najeeb Halaby, was selected to improve the design of the Concorde than competing head-to-head with Boeing in 2707. SST, which may have represented a significant advance over the Concorde, the aircraft...

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