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Old 10th August 2020, 09:52 AM
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On the big plane front a Ukrainian Antonov 124 just went over heading for Brize Norton, according to Wikipedia still the largest military transport aircraft in current service.
It depends on your definition of largest.
Excusing the AN225 (as stated elsewhere it's now being used by a commercial outfit, so isn't 'military'), the other very large transport is the US C5 Galaxy, which was the worlds largest plane outright for nearly 20 years.

The C5 Galaxy is longer than the AN124 and has a higher Gross weight.
AN124 has a greater wingspan and beats the C5 in payload by 20 odd tonnes, making it a (slightly) better transport (127T vs 150T payloads).

All three (C5, AN124, AN225) are beaten in wingspan by Howard Hughes' H4 Hercules "Spruce Goose"! At nearly 100m across, it was only beaten in wingspan itself by the experimental Boeing Stratolaunch just over a year ago. So a 72 year record!
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