I was looking through a aircarft book today at work when I came across this aircraft...... and then it hit me.... IT's STRATOSPHERE!!!!!

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The largest aircraft in the world.... The Antonov AN-225 Mriya

Only one was ever built..



If this thing WAS a transformer... Epic wouldn't even be able to discribe it... It's not a perfect match but I'm pretty sure his design is based off it.

 

Stratosphere is a blend of "a C130-Hercules for the body, a C-17 Globemaster III for the wings, the cockpit of a C-5 Galaxy and the tail of an Antonov An-225" according to tfwiki.net

 

actually he looks like a mix of an AN-124 with the tail of a AN-224 Myira....

Antonov An-124 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Here's an AN-124 getting back on the runway after slipping off of it because of ice.

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And a picture of AN-225 with 5 tanks unloaded:

 

well i actually like this guy's toy. if he transformed in the movie, he could act like a movieverse Omega Supreme. But since he'd have no worthy opponent, i fear M. Bay would have him killed by someone like Ravage  .

 

We already have an AN-225 Transformer. Movie-line Jetstorm, a redeco of Cybertron Jetfire.

 

Infil, that's the problem. It's not a accurate represenation of the Antonov.
I could see a Radicon bashing a Antonov together and calling it Stratosphere.

 

i see it more than i see the tfwiki designs, looks like that made different like sideway's audi mode

 

So pretty much just like when one of the cassettes took out Omega Supreme all by himself in the 80's!

I love Stratosphere, just for being so out there, and the tiny Prime is love. Really wish the shuttle gun had made it to the final product.