Don't like just posting news stories here, but thought this was worthy of mention;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/wor...00/1317779.stm
"The world's biggest plane - the Antonov 225 - has taken to the skies again, a decade after being grounded following the collapse of the Soviet Union."
I remember seeing it at Farnborough [1990?].. mightily impressive, as you'd expect with an aircraft with MTOW of 600 tons!!