I had the privilege myself of navigating the Volga on an hydrofoil ('raketta' in Russian), a very impressive machine on regular service, up to this day.
Depends what is the level of accuracy/expertise/completeness required...
My whole expertise on the subject is a couple of stories I could write up combined with a good Internet connection to do some research !
The 44-seat Bíbic IV:
The 62-seat Vöcsök IV:
The 104-seat Sólyom III:
*Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
It seems they are (still?) running them in the Netherlands and in Canada.
I sailed - or flew - them in the Caribbean, in Saint Petersburg (not Florida !) and on the Volga.
Not anymore: the KM could take off with 540 (metric) tons, but the An-225 beat it in that 2001 flight with 600 tons, and the Airbus A-380 also beat it at 560 tons MTOW (though maybe Elco B can tell whether this has been actually achieved in the test flights so far). The A380 freighter version will have 590 MTOW (but only a cargo of 150 tons - nowhere near as economic as the Mriya). *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
I have a super nice film here : How to build a A-380 in seven minutes! The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)
You owe it to yourself to visit the Airbus assembly halls in Toulouse. They have a "portes ouvertes" day. The size of these halls is such that from high up in the public area you just see motionless monsters, hardly any human activity, just here and there ant-like creatures going about their business. Quite impressive.
Makes one proud to be an European...
The A380 flew more than hundred (or is it already hundreds?) of test-flights, so that could long have included MTOW flights. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
