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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TU-144 - supersonic aircraft

Tupolev Tu-144 (NATO name recognition: 'Charger' ") is a fruit of two berkelajuan supersonic passenger aircraft (SST) used in commercial perkhidmatan, together with the Concorde aircraft. The aircraft was fostered under the supervision of the bureau rekabentuk Alexei Tupolev Tupolev in the Soviet Union.   Tu-144 plane resembles the Aérospatiale / British Aircraft Corporation Concorde. He awakened at the same time, and there are many allegations saying the Soviet perisik has played an important role, giving the name of Tu-144 mat with the name "Konkordski" or "Concordski". Tu-144 became the only commercial supersonic passenger aircraft company who was awakened by Tupolev, where most of the other supersonic aircraft cultivated...

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Concorde - supersonic aircraft

Concorde is a supersonic aircraft which is one of two types of supersonic passenger aircraft ever to serve the commercial transportation. Other supersonic aircraft is the Tupolev Tu-144 owned by Russian are also suspected of espionage is the result of the Concorde. Concorde has a cruising speed of 2.04 Mach (speed of sound) and flight altitude to 60,000 feet (17,700 meters) with a delta wing configuration and evolution of a machine equipped with afterburner jet engines originally developed for strategic bomber aircraft (bomber) Avro commercial Vulcan.Penerbangan operated by British Airways and Air France began on January 21, 1976 and ends on October 24, 2003, with the last flight on 26 November the same year...

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Bell X-1 - Supersonic aircraft

Bell-X1, initially XS-1 is the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound. He is the first X-plane, a series of aircraft designed to test new technologies and usually kept in strict confidentiality. X-1 # 46-062, nicknamed "Glamorous Glennis". On October 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager of the United States Air Force flew the aircraft # 46-062, which he called 'Glamorous Glennis', over his wife. Rocket powered aircraft was launched from the belly of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress that has been modified. Aircraft # 46-602 is the model that is now on display in the main atrium at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, adjacent to Spirit of St.. Louis and SpaceShipO...

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welcome to world plane

welcome to world pl...

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