A 40-meter-long tram
car is hoisted into an AN-225 cargo plane
at Zhengding International Airport in
Shijiazhuang on Friday
before taking off for Turkey.
[Zhang Xiaofeng / for China
Daily]
The world's largest cargo plane will carry two green-energy
tram cars from Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, to Istanbul, making it the first
air transport of high-quality, domestically built equipment of this scale to
fly to Europe.
The AN-225, measuring 84 meters long with an 88.74-meter
wingspan, arrived at the airport and waited on the parking apron for the
loading of the two streetcars, each weighing about 20 metric tons, on Friday.