The AN225 Is The World's WEAKEST Plane

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]Now, over the past few months, we've been on a quest analyzing performance of airplanes with the magical thrust to weight ratio. We figured the A340 is weak, and we figured that the trip 7 is the most performance airplane out there.

[00:00:14]But everybody, why do we have this monstrosity in front of us, the Adenov N225, which sadly doesn't exist anymore because it was destroyed? Well, it turns out that the Adenov N225 is actually the least performing airplane in the world.

[00:00:29]I mean, compare it to high numbers like the 757200, the rocket plane in the sky, the Ferrari we called it, 341 to only.22.

[00:00:41]This airplane, despite having the most powerful engines set up, I mean, after all, 310,000 lb, of course, means we've got six of them. Six engines, and it really only has 222, even worse than the extremely underperforming A340300. And so let's see what that means. At least in the virtual skies, we have this airplane beautifully depicted. And isn't it a little bit amusing that they had their email here in the delivery um as well as their phone number? I wonder I wonder what happens if you call them now. Anyway, let's get inside of this monstrosity indeed cuz this plane is obviously from the 80s. So it has an engineering panel. In fact, this is kind of like a live living room really. Now this airplane is so interesting in so many ways. Obviously, it's ginormous and so it has five batteries. The only configuration I can find on the other airplanes is two batteries. Because we've got so many engines, this airplane has two APUs, a right one and a left one. And I'm kind of lucky that this airplane has been translated into English. Um, well, only halfway. I don't know what hack means. And don't even get me started on whatever this means. Oh, and what is opening right here? is, of course, the famous nose door, and it opens very slowly. But what is behind it is truly special. An enormous cargo loading bay. This plane could fit 250 tons of stuff. Yes, it could literally make trains fly. And it's still it's still opening. I don't even know. Once again, I have no idea how to fly this aeroplane. In fact, I can't get the two APU started up. But I mean, look at the crew compartment. Once again, this is an entire apartment. This is a bench.

[00:02:22]Whatever you do. And a second bench.

[00:02:24]Whatever you do in here. And you have a proper lavatory which is not added in.

[00:02:28]Oh yes. This is a proper living compartment. Now this does look goofy. I have no idea how this airplane was engineered. It's absolutely insane. Like generally the engineering behind all this crazy. I mean as you can see this airplane is kneeling. So it's coming down. The nose landing gear is like coming up and like so it moves in like a hinge. As you can see, this process is ongoing. Here is the kneeling progress right here. We can even see it here come down. That's nice. As you can see, it's kneeling all the way down until these stands right here hit the ground. This is definitely why this airplane needed two nose landing gear. Landing gear is great on this airplane. Maybe the airplane will stop quickly. That's a lot of brakes. Jesus Christ. This is the sturdiest landing gear in the world.

[00:03:14]Calm down. Come down. This has been taking It's been taking 10 minutes, by the way.

[00:03:21]And the ramp isn't even out. Look at how it's tilted. It's absolutely crazy.

[00:03:26]Okay, touchdown. Touchdown. Very good.

[00:03:30]And so now the ramp is coming out. See, this airplane is quite impressive in many ways and not only the fact that it crosses into a push back tug. Right now, other large scale transport planes have their cargo deck on quite an elevated platform. So, for example, the Beluga has to be loaded using special loading things, and this plane doesn't. You can just walk right in here from the ground.

[00:03:54]And look what we've got here now. We've got three helicopters and some spare tires. Oh, nice. I mean, I mean, this is this is crazy. And the fact that all of this flies is just impressive. So, let's go ahead and fly this plane. I'm not going to bother with trying to start it up cuz um it's a bit complicated because we are here once again to talk about this airplane's poor performance. See, we've now loaded this airplane up to its maximum weight indeed. 640 tons is what it can weigh. We now are at 637. Now, the flap position on this plane is super interesting. For takeoff, you actually put it into the landing configuration, which is furthest down. I've never seen that before on any other airplane, but it says take off and land, which is flaps down indeed. And you can see that even here on pictures. Look at how down the flaps are. If you're not too familiar with planes, I have never seen that. You mostly use like uh light flaps configuration like 2° or something or 15, but definitely not full.

[00:04:52]Interesting. We're going to use all of those six. You need an entire arm to move with all those six throttle levers.

[00:04:58]put them into position and we can very slowly hear all those six engines spool up. Yes. All right. Wow. Look at this.

[00:05:08]Okay, we are starting to move and not necessarily happening very quickly. I mean, we are gaining speed. Yes. But this plane is just so ginormous that it doesn't really look like it's going very fast. Right now, what is really interesting is just the nose wheel steering, right? You have like these two nose wheel landing gears and it's absolutely insane. All right. But after some time, we should be able to rotate.

[00:05:31]We're definitely on the left side of the runway here, by the way, and we need to rotate now. Interestingly, the airplane didn't even need the whole runway here at Los Angeles. Maybe it is the fact that indeed we're using 33° of flap. So, of course, you don't need a lot of speed. We've got huge wings creating huge amount of drag. I mean, just the horizontal stabilizer is basically the size of a 737 wing. So, of course, we can fly relatively well. Interesting.

[00:05:58]Perhaps a shorter runway, sir.

[00:06:02]It would say Blat now, I think. All right. Here is Key West with its 1500 m long runway. Let's cut the engines, put the flaps back to the landing/takeoff position, and just be relatively amazed by how well this airplane steers despite its size. I mean, we've got good control. We've got two huge vertical stabilizer and I'm pretty sure some person could live in the elevators.

[00:06:24]Anyway, the landing gear is down and we've got loads of brakes in them.

[00:06:29]>> And we've got a Ukrainian lady talking about landing somehow. Now, is this in kilometers per hour? It seems like it is. 170 knots is somewhat 350 k. We're relatively fast. Okay. Now, as you can see, this runway isn't the longest, but uh come on. Let's give give me a try here. We've got big landing gear.

[00:06:49]Landing probably isn't an issue. Oh, wow. That was a hard one, but it doesn't really feel like it. Okay, now reverse thrust out. There we go. And let's take a look at how quickly this airplane comes to a stop. And yes, even at full braking, I've never seen this slow. I mean, we've got so much mass. It's kind of understandable. Despite this wing kind of splitting up right here, we do need quite a bit of surface to stop. Hm.

[00:07:15]But let's try doing a takeoff. See, an airplane always uses less runway for landing than for takeoff. So, this genuinely might just be interesting. Our challenge of how much runway does this airplane actually need and maximum weight might genuinely end here at 1500 m. And we've never had that. See, when planes given full power, they can actually have quite a lot of power. So, air speed of 50 knots 60. I'm kind of scared. I'm really scared. Uh, this might generally already be the end of this video where we we might not make it. This uh this might be a failure now already. Landing work but a takeoff.

[00:07:49]Absolutely no way. Even though you know 737s fly here in real life.

[00:07:56]NO, IT IS DEAD. It is dead. The Anov225.

[00:08:02]That's what I've been saying. 1500 m is absolutely impossible. Even though we've been able to fly big airliners here. I mean, it's true. This airplane has the weight to basically sink an entire island like this. This is the shortest runway in the world. Yes, indeed the heaviest airplane in the world, but also the most powerful one. But all that power isn't enough to make this airplane in any way comparable to an airliner in terms of performance. Question is, does it really need that? Maybe there are some runways long enough. Wait, actually, hold on.

[00:08:32]N this doesn't work, of course, even at empty weight. Uh, this airplane isn't made to be able to land at Key West, of course. So, thank you guys so so much for watching this video. It's Jesus now.

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