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monster planes to dominate the skies the marvel of flight never ceases to amaze and the spectacle is so much more unbelievable when the aircraft are longer than Olympic pools heavier than the biggest tanks and taller than five-story buildings here are the most monstrous planes flying today number one an tonne of am 225 by most metrics the antone of an-225 is the biggest plane in the world only one of these monster cargo aircraft was built by 10 tonne of design bureau in the USSR in the 1980s it was designed to carry the varan space plane the Soviet version of a space shuttle as well as rocket boosters but the plane quickly found other airlifting work after being refurbished following the collapse of the Soviet space program it is the heaviest aircraft ever built with a maximum takeoff weight of 700 tonnes and tells the record for total airlift of payload as well as air lifted single item payload at 418 thousand pounds it has the longest waistband of any plane currently flying at 290 feet this sixth engine beast is the heavyweight champion pounds number two aerospace lines super guppy a guppy might be prey but the super guppy is a monster the bloated aircraft has been retired by every institution in the world save one NASA the u.s. space agency finds the Guppies white dimensions perfect for transporting spacecraft and rocket components the first super guppy was constructed from a balloon fuselage taken from a Boeing C 97 strata fighter taking to the skies in 1965 the turboprop cargo plane was replaced by the airbus beluga 4 large and awkwardly shaped cargo delivery but as long as NASA still has the use for the super guppy it will continue to baffle people in the sky and NASA loves the super guppy number three lockheed c-5 galaxy with a payload capacity of almost 135 tonnes the c5 galaxy is the largest aircraft routinely operated by the US military the Air Force announced that it was reactivating the monster air flier in May 2017 the c5 has enough cargo space to carry two m1 Abrams tags 16 Humvees three Black Hawks or a variety of other vehicles without cargo the c5 can fly up to 7,000 miles without refueling making it the longest range military airlift her in the world when the Air Force needs a lot of tonnage move quickly the c5 is what it turns to number four McDonnell Douglas kc-10 extender the largest fuel capacity tanker aircraft in the world entered service in 1981 the KCT extender has a total fuel capacity of 52,000 galleries or about 175 tons of fuel it was designed to provide a more capable tanker than the Boeing kc-135 which was about 25 years old at that point the Air Force is in the process of acquiring the new tanker the Boeing kc-46 Pegasus which will be more efficient and advanced than the kc-10 but the traget extender will still have the Pegasus feet on fuel capacity by about 70 tons the kc-10 stores jet fuel in three main wing tanks as well as large fuel tanks under the cargo floor it can alternatively be flown with a crew of 75 and 73 pounds of cargo or 85 tons of cargo and all cargo configuration hit that like button if you enjoyed this video and don't forget to subscribe and tell us what you think in the comment section below