Russian Cargo Jet????

[kouzie]

i saw this and went......holy!!.....
i wonder how much would it cost for gas on this..

[cvc7chris]

for gas?

a couple of these maybe!

[kouzie]

for gas?

a couple of these maybe!

yeah........thats what i thought....but man that sure is alot of gas...

[owequitit]

Ah, yes the Antonov AN225. Quite the hauler. It has a max takeoff weight of over 1.4 million pounds.

If I had to venture a guess, based on the output of the engines, I would say they probably burn about 5500lbs of fuel per hour, per engine.

So figure 33,000 lbs per hour for the first hour.

1 gallon of jet fuel weighs roughly 7 lbs per gallon, so that would convert to about 4,700 gallons for the first hour.

For the second hour, it would burn about 29,000 lbs per hour or about 4,100 gallons.

Then every hour after that it would burn about 24,300lbs of fuel or approximately 3,500 gallons.

So you figure for say a 3,000 mile trip (which would take about 6.5 hours at normal cruise of 465 MPH), which would allow for a moderate payload, you are looking at burning about 171,350 lbs or roughly 24,500 gallons of fuel.

That would be enough for 1,439 tanks of gas on a CB7, starting from bone dry.

Based on 25MPG, that would allow you to travel for 612,500 miles in a CB7.

Hope that puts it into perspective.

Of course, if the airplane was fully fueled and flew one trip at the maximum range, you could about double that distance for the CB7, or drive over 1.2 million miles.

Here are some of the links I found. I don't know how accurate they are, but my guess is they are pretty close, considering that one company charters the airplane, and the other has known figures.

http://www.kls2.com/cgi-bin/arcfetch...chicago.com%3E

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225

[kouzie]

it would burn about 29,000 lbs per hour or about 4,100 gallons.

Of course, if the airplane was fully fueled and flew one trip at the maximum range, you could about double that distance for the CB7, or drive over 1.2 million miles.

dammmmmmm.......
i'll said CB7......but i don't think it'll go over 1.2 million miles...

[ExplodingCake]

Big ass plane.. Bigger than the B-36

[Losiracer2]

haha that thing looks bloated.

[lil_dcb7]

That looks like Jose (d112crzy)

[cvc7chris]

damn those fucking planes are making our gas expensive!

[kouzie]

damn those fucking planes are making our gas expensive!

[DA92CB7]

That looks like Jose (d112crzy)

LMAO

one of its main uses is flying the russian "space shuttle" around to its various launch areas. BTW the russians jacked their shuttle design from us.... ours
theirs

[Frazzums]

damn those fucking planes are making our gas expensive!

Do you really believe that?

[cvc7chris]

idk!.....
maybe! what do you belive?

they probally waste enough gas to power a cb7 for like a year! or 2 so...
could be!

[HenRoc]

LMAO

one of its main uses is flying the russian "space shuttle" around to its various launch areas. BTW the russians jacked their shuttle design from us.... ours
theirs

True but their shuttle was destroyed in a hangar according the wiki article on it.
Only one shuttle was made and was fully automated with no life support built into it.

[cb7wagonPL]

looks like its on steroids haha. i work at an airport and i saw a smaller version of the model with 4 jet engines, not 6, and that sucker was huge. i wonder what they were transporting from or to Russia from Philly? The plane had a big russian flag on the back.