On Monday 29 September 2003 16:24, Jim Wilson wrote: > "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Lee Elliott has just contributed an AN225 to the FlightGear project > > and I have just committed it to CVS. This aircraft is the biggest one > > built for FlightGear so far and it flies and looks really nice. > > > > And the 747-400 quietly steps aside :-) > > BTW the only thing that might be bigger would be a spruce goose, but nothing > will beat the an-225 for capacity (close to double the 747?). How much runway > does it need at mto weight? > > Best, > > Jim
I got 9,200ft from the only site I found that had anything more detailed than the obvious data. Didn't say at what alt that was so I've assumed sea level. Trouble is, although I made quite a few notes, I didn't actually book-mark the site:/ It also gave the max landing weight and the max taxiing weight, both of which are quite a bit below the mto, but I didn't make a note of those exact figures either:( (=about 0.85 fuel load, iirc) I didn't really realise exactly how big this a/c was until I was well into working on it but the range of flying weights is pretty extraordinary - roughly between 600,000lbs - 1,200,000+lbs. With a full fuel load for max ferry range (15,000km) more than half the t/o weight is fuel (>600,000lbs) I got some good pics of it flying at an airshow, where it appears to be surprisingly agile for such a large plane, but then it probably had less than a 5% fuel load and with over 300,000lbs of thrust, at around 700,000lbs of weight, it would've had lift and energy to spare. LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
