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Largest airplane ever built?

Skeptic Bob said:
They launch rockets from it that carry satellites into space.
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I think people forget that most of a Saturn V's first stage was to get to where that plane can take a rocket.
 
There is the An-225 built to transport the Soviet space shuttle. One was built, one half built. It still files from time to time, when someone needs to transport something big. It obviously has more volume. Orbital Sciences also launches rockets into space from a modified L1011, but much much smaller rockets than what this can do.


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longview said:
I think people forget that most of a Saturn V's first stage was to get to where that plane can take a rocket.
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This plane has a ceiling of about six or seven miles. The Saturn V first stage took it to 40 miles.
There must be an exponential aspect to delta-altitude in the say first 30,000 ft?
I dunno the answer but those guys building it ain't nutz
 
if i wanted the last 2.6 minutes of my life to be spent in screaming terror or unconscious freefall, i'd definitely fly on the "that thing is going to break right the **** in half" express.

i don't.
 
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