Watch This: Watch the Enormous Rocket-Launching Stratolaunch Plane Roll Down the Runway for the First Time If you placed Stratolaunch on a football field, the wings would extend through the goalposts an extra 12.5 feet on both sides. The composite six-engine, twin-fuselage aircraft has the longest wingspan in the world: 385 feet from tip to tip. Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch certainly is a monster plane. Unconfirmed reports suggest the aircraft, which was parked at Hostomel Airport and undergoing maintenance, may have been damaged during the incursion. The Russian invasion of Ukraine may mark the end of an era, however. In 2020, the hulking aircraft joined the global fight against COVID-19, when it took to the skies to deliver supplies to countries around the world whose resources were stretched by the pandemic. It has the longest wingspan of any plane currently flying at 290 feet, and it has six freakin’ engines. It holds the record for total airlifted payload at 559,580 pounds, as well as airlifted single-item payload at 418,830 pounds. The An-225 is the heaviest aircraft ever built, with a maximum takeoff weight of 710 tons. Read More Here: Russian Forces Have Reportedly Destroyed Antonov’s An-225 Mriya Antonov designed it to carry the Buran spaceplane (the Soviet version of the space shuttle) as well as Energia rocket boosters, but the plane quickly found other airlifting work after being refurbished following the collapse of the Soviet space program. The Antonov Design Bureau in Ukrainian SSR built just one of these monster cargo aircraft. By most metrics, the Antonov An-225 is the biggest plane in the world.
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