Outsize Cargo Freight Aircrafts

AIRBUS BELUGA

The Airbus A300-600ST (Super Transporter) or Beluga, is a version of the standard A300-600 wide-body airliner modified to carry aircraft parts and oversized or awkward cargo. It was officially called the Super Transporter at first, but the name Beluga became popular and has now been officially adopted

In 1991 Aérospatiale and DASA, two of the major Airbus partners, formed a company to develop a replacement. The starting point was the design for the wide-body twin-engined Airbus A300: the wings, engines, landing gear, and the lower part of the fuselage are the same as the A300 while the upper part of the fuselage is an enormous horseshoe-shaped structure 7.7 m (25 ft) in diameter. To provide access to the cargo area from the front without having to disconnect all electrical, hydraulic and flight control connections (not to mention the lengthy recalibrations before each flight the reconnection entailed), the standard A300 cockpit was moved down below the cargo floor level, and the tail structure was enlarged and strengthened to maintain directional stability.

The main deck cargo volume of the Beluga is greater than that of the C-5 Galaxy or the Antonov An-124 but still smaller than Antonov An-225. However it is restricted by cargo weight capacity of 47 tonnes, compared to 122.5 tonnes for the C-5 Galaxy and 150 tonnes for the An-124.Despite this width, the Beluga cannot carry most fuselage parts of the A380, which have to be brought by ship and road usually. The Beluga has been used to transport a few A380 components.

Measurement	A300-600ST
Length	56.15 metres (184 ft 3 in)
Span	44.84 metres (147 ft 1 in)
Height	17.24 metres (56 ft 7 in)
Wing area	258.80 square metres (2,785.7 sq ft)
Fuselage diameter	3.95 metres (13.0 ft) 7.1 metres (23 ft 4 in) in cargo compartment
Weight empty	86 t
Maximum take-off weight	155 t
Range (40 ton payload)	2,779 kilometres (1,501 nmi)
Range (26 ton payload)	4,632 kilometres (2,501 nmi)
Engines	GE CF6-80C2A8
Cargo capacity	47 t
Cargo volume	1,210 cubic metres (43,000 cu ft)
Cockpit crew	Two

BOEING 747 LARGE CARGO FREIGHTER

The Boeing 747 Dreamlifter (formerly Large Cargo Freighter or LCF) is a wide-body cargo aircraft. Cargo is placed in the aircraft by the world's longest cargo loader. Constructed by drastic modifications to an existing Boeing 747-400, it is used exclusively for transporting 787 aircraft parts to Boeing's assembly plants from suppliers around the world.

Boeing Commercial Airplanes announced on October 13, 2003 that, due to the length of time required by land and marine shipping, air transport will be the primary method of transporting parts for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner (then known as the 7E7). Initially, three used passenger 747-400 aircraft were to be converted into an outsize configuration in order to ferry sub-assemblies from Japan and Italy to North Charleston, South Carolina and then to Washington for final assembly, but a fourth was subsequently added to the program. The Large Cargo Freighter has a bulging fuselage similar in concept to the Super Guppy and Airbus A300-600ST Beluga outsize cargo aircraft, which are also used for transporting wings and fuselage sections. At 65,000 cubic feet (1,840 cubic meters) the cargo hold is the largest in the world, and it can hold three times the volume of a 747-400F freighter.

Model	747 Dreamlifter	747-400
Cockpit crew	Two
Length	235 ft 2 in (71.68 m)	231 ft 10 in (70.6 m)
Wingspan	211 ft 5 in (64.4 m)
Height	70 ft 8 in (21.54 m)	63 ft 8 in (19.4 m)
Fuselage width	27 ft 6 in (8.38 m)	21 ft 4 in (6.50 m)
Spec Operating Empty Weight	180,530 kg (398,000 lb)	179,015 kg (394,660 lb)
Maximum take-off weight	364,235 kg (803,000 lb)	396,890 kg (875,000 lb)
Cruising speed	Mach 0.82 (474 kt, 878 km/h)	Mach 0.85 (491 kt, 910 km/h)
Takeoff run at MTOW	9,199 ft (2,804 m)	9,902 ft (3,018 m)
Range fully loaded	4,200 nmi (4,800 mi; 7,800 km)	7,260 nmi (8,350 mi; 13,450 km)
Max. fuel capacity	52,609 U.S. gal (199,150 l)	57,285 U.S. gal (216,850 l)
Engine models (x 4)	PW 4062	PW 4062 GE CF6-80C2B5F RR RB211-524G/H
Engine thrust (per engine)	63,300 lbf (282 kN)	PW 63,300 lbf (282 kN) GE 62,100 lbf (276 kN) RR 59,500 lbf (265 kN)

ANTONOV-225 MRIYA

The Antonov An-225 Mriya (Ukrainian: Антонов Ан-225 Мрія, Dream, NATO reporting name: 'Cossack') is a strategic airlift cargo aircraft, designed by the Antonov Design Bureau in the 1980s. It is the world's heaviest aircraft. The design, built in order to transport the Buran orbiter, was an enlargement of the successful Antonov An-124. The An-225's name, Mriya (Мрiя) means "Dream" (Inspiration) in Ukrainian.

The first An-225 was completed in 1988 and a second An-225 has been partially completed. The completed An-225 is in commercial operation with Antonov Airlines carrying oversized payloads.

The Antonov An-225 was designed to airlift the Energia rocket's boosters and the Buran space shuttle for the Soviet space program. It was developed as a replacement for the Myasishchev VM-T. The An-225's original mission and objectives are almost identical to that of the United States' Shuttle Carrier Aircraft

Based on Antonov's earlier An-124, the An-225 has fuselage barrel extensions added fore and aft of the wings, which received root extensions to increase span. Two more Ivchenko Progress D-18T turbofan engines were added to the new wing roots, bringing the total to six, and an increased-capacity landing gear system with 32 wheels was designed, some of which are steerable to turn the aircraft within a 60m wide runway. The landing gear allows the An-225 tokneel so cargo is easier to load and unload.The An-124’s rear cargo door and ramp were removed to save weight, and the empennage was changed from a single vertical stabilizer to a twin tail with an oversized horizontal stabilizer. The twin tail was essential to enable the plane to carry large, heavy external loads that would disturb the aerodynamics of a conventional tail. Unlike the An-124, the An-225 was not intended for tactical airlifting and is not designed for short-field operation.

Both the earlier and later takeoff weights establish the An-225 as the world's heaviest aircraft, being heavier than the double-deck Airbus A380 even though Airbus plans to pass the An-225's maximum landing weight with 591.7 tonnes (1,304,000 lb) for the A380. The Boeing 747 Large Cargo Freighter (Dreamlifter) has a bigger cargo hold at 1,840m³ (65,000 cubic feet). The Hughes H-4 Hercules, known as the "Spruce Goose", had a greater wingspan and a greater overall height, but was 20% shorter, and due to the materials used in its construction, also lighter. In addition, the Hercules only flew once, making the An-225 the largest aircraft in the world to fly multiple times.The An-225 is in most ways larger than the Dreamlifter, Antonov An-124 and Lockheed C-5 Galaxy (the nearest equivalent heavy cargo aircraft), and the Airbus A380 airliner.

General characteristics

• Crew: 6
• Length: 84 m (275 ft 7 in)
• Wingspan: 88.4 m (290 ft 0 in)
• Height: 18.1 m (59 ft 5 in)
• Wing area: 905 m² (9,740 sq ft)
• Aspect ratio: 8.6
• Empty weight: 285,000 kg (628,317 lb)
• Max takeoff weight: 640,000 kg (1,410,958 lb)
• Fuel capacity: 300000 kg
• Cargo hold - volume 1,300m³, length 43.35m, width 6.4m, height 4.4m
• Powerplant: 6 × ZMKB Progress D-18 turbofans, 229.5 kN (51,600 lbf) thrust each

Performance

• Maximum speed: 850 km/h (528 mph; 459 kn)
• Cruising speed: 800 km/h (497 mph; 432 kn)
• Range: 15,400 km (9,569 mi; 8,315 nmi) with maximum fuel; range with maximum payload: 4,000 km (2,500 mi)
• Service ceiling: 11,000 m (36,089 ft)
• Wing loading: 662.9 kg/m² (135.8 lb/sq ft)
• Thrust/weight: 0.234