----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Laflamme" <dplaflamme@alumni.nd.edu> To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 10:40 Subject: Re: Fuselage Length... > At 02:54 AM 7/23/2002 -0400, Juan Carlos Gideon wrote: > >Hello Folks, > > > >I know what everybody is going to tell me: Size doesn't matter... > > > >But which aircraft id the Longest, the 777-300 or A340-600?? > > Airbus's web site says that the 340-600 is 246 feet, 11 inches. Boeing's > web site says that the 777-300 is 242' 4". The 747-400 is a "mere" 231' > 10", while the 757-300, often lambasted for being so long, is 178' 7". (The > 767-400 is 201' 4".) > > >Is there something out there even longer? > > The Concorde is 202' 4", rather long for a 100 seat aircraft, but short in > this context. :-) The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is 247', largest in the USAF > inventory. The Antonov An-124 is "only" 227'. The one-off An-225 is 275' > 7", but when was the last time it flew? :-) (And, besides, this is an > AIRLINES list. :-) ) And then there was the ten-jet prototype that was 106m (347') long, though it only flew at heights up to 60' or so..... the Ekranoplan.