Giant airplanes
1. Airbus Beluga
The Airbus Beluga (Super Transporter) is a version of the standard Airbus A300 wide-body airliner, modified to carry aircraft parts and over-sized or awkward cargo. It was officially called the Super Transporter at first, but the name Beluga became popular and has now been adopted as official.
The Antonov An-225 is a strategic airlift transport aircraft which was built by Antonov, and is the world's largest powered aircraft.
It measures 84 meters in length (11 more than the A380) and his lifting capacity is of 250 tons. Antonov are used for the transport of very heavy loads , as train wagons...
and even Skycranes!
The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) are two extensively modified Boeing 747 jetliners that NASA uses to transport a space shuttle orbiter.
The SCAs are used to ferry space shuttles from landing sites back to the launch complex at the Kennedy Space Center, but on August 12, 1977, the first free flight by the prototype space shuttle orbiter Enterprise was successfully flown at NASA's Dryden Center.
Finally, a special mention to other sky giants as the "Spruce Goose", Lockheed C-5 Galaxy or Myasishchev VM-T. Here you can check the giant planes comparison from Wikipedia.
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