Freighters & outsize cargo

The category, explained

Cargo aircraft are shaped by their doors. A nose that hinges upward, a ramp at the back, a fuselage that is essentially a tube of empty volume, every design decision follows from the need to get enormous objects in and out quickly.

This is where aviation's true giants live. Outsize freighters like the An-124 and the An-225 exist to carry generators, turbines, satellites and locomotives, payloads for which there is simply no alternative. The Beluga and Dreamlifter are stranger still: aircraft built to carry the pieces of other aircraft.

Every freighters & outsize cargo here

Silhouettes are sized by real wingspan, bigger aircraft draw bigger.

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