Giants

In this episode we travel along the development path of the Giants. The Antonov An-124 is a giant among giants. On it’s maiden fight in December 1982, it was the largest powered craft to fly. The An-124 is still the world’s largest heavy lift aircraft.
Surprisingly the largest aircraft ever built would dwarf the An-124. Airships took to the skies around 1900, when the aeroplane was a very basic contraption. After reviewing many types of giants we end this episode with a look at a plane that was deigned with the sole purpose of moving people and making air travel affordable to the masses. Seventy-five thousand engineering drawings were used to produce the first 747.

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