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Largest object transported by air

According to Official Guinness Records,

Although not the heaviest, the largest single objects to be transported by air are the 37.23 m. (122.17 feet) NASA space shuttles, which are "piggy-backed" on top of modified Boeing 747 jets from alternative landing strips back to Florida's Cape Canaveral. The shuttles - Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour - weigh around 100 tonnes each when being transported. The shuttle is more than half as long as the 747, which measures 70.6 m. (231 ft. 10 in.). Although shuttles are generally launched and landed at Cape Canaveral, bad weather sometimes forces them to land at back-up sites, such as in the Mojave desert.

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Content last updated on 2018-11-27