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A few days ago, the heaviest takeoff in Boeing history occurred. In Victorville, California, the second 747-8F took off with a weight of 1.3 million pounds.

Read more here.

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It always amazes me that we have found methods to make a million pounds fly through the air.

That's just awesome. Especially when you think about what 1,000,000 pounds really means.

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Impressive. The AN225 does the same weight (wiki). I think the Antonov can carry larger volumes, correct?

Carlo

That is

448 imperial tons (long tons)
502.5 US tons (short tons)
456 metric tonnes

I hate this US thing of measuring everything in lbs

Space shuttles's 4.5 million pounds

Space shuttles's 4.5 million pounds

I said Boeing, not NASA.  I wouldn't call a space shuttle an "airplane"...

Space shuttles's 4.5 million pounds

I said Boeing, not NASA.

Me and a few of the 747 Mechanics were talking, and I bet you Boeing forgot to improve the Turning radius on the 747-8. The normal 747's main body gear can caster a few degrees, cutting down the turn circle. But the 748F is longer then the 744 Passenger Version, and the 748I is even longer then that.

The reason I bring this up is, can you imagine trying to taxi around with 130,000kg of weight on a longer plane and it still has the same exact turn radius of the 744F, that tail swinging around is bound to clip something, and more then likely when you try and cheat your turn, you are going to run the NLG off the taxi way, or run over taxiway light with the body gear. 

[quote]Me and a few of the 747 Mechanics were talking, and I bet you Boeing forgot to improve the Turning radius on the 747-8. The normal 747's main body gear can caster a few degrees, cutting down the turn circle. But the 748F is longer then the 744 Passenger Version, and the 748I is even longer then that.

The reason I bring this up is, can you imagine trying to taxi around with 130,000kg of weight on a longer plane and it still has the same exact turn radius of the 744F, that tail swinging around is bound to clip something, and more then likely when you try and cheat your turn, you are going to run the NLG off the taxi way, or run over taxiway light with the body gear.

Space shuttles's 4.5 million pounds

I said Boeing, not NASA.

And how I wish I had an airplane with 5,600,000 pounds of thrust...

And I'd like to own the outfit selling you fuel  .

Only half joking, but we did land on the moon using standard system. Until someone else lands on the moon with metric, I'll stick with my 9/16" wrench. 

It always amazes me that we have found methods to make a million pounds fly through the air.

The World Bank has managed it... ...!

I stand in my back Garden each day, waiting for it (

Me and a few of the 747 Mechanics were talking, and I bet you Boeing forgot to improve the Turning radius on the 747-8. ..........

Smarter people than us have done all the design work on this project..... do you really think they would miss a thing like this ?