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The Freaky Super Guppy Aircraft Is Helping Humans Get Back To The Moon
NASA is on a mission to get humans back on the Moon, with the goal of boots on the surface in 2025. Helping NASA achieve this mission is one of the most distinctive and rarest planes in the sky: a transport aircraft called the Super Guppy. The plane just delivered the heat shield skin for…
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The World’s Largest Plane Costs $38,000 An Hour To Fly
There are few planes quite as crazy as the Antonov An-225. Too large to land at many airports, this six-engined beast definitely seems out of place in modern cost-conscious commercial aviation. That’s because this plane was designed for an entirely different purpose that never really materialised: Lift large, heavy components for the Soviet space program.
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Report: The Boeing 747 Is Dead, For Real This Time
After defining commercial air travel for more than five decades, the Boeing 747 will finally leave production, according to a report from Reuters. The news wire reports that Boeing had made its final orders for parts more than a year ago, signalling the end for the double-decker quad-jet that has been built continuously since 1968.
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The Boeing 747 Is 47 Years Old This Week
Video: The Boeing 747 is one of the world’s most iconic airplanes. It’s the Queen of the Skies, the Jumbo Jet, one of few planes that can lay claim to such an important role in connecting Australia’s multicultural population to its roots in Europe, Asia and other parts of the world. Today, it celebrates its…