flying cargo ship.

With all the grace and charm of a blue-footed booby with a sports hernia, the world's only remaining Antonov An-225 Cossack lifted off from YYC this afternoon loaded with natural gas processing components for Nigeria. The beast, the world largest aircraft by weight, was on the ground less than six hours before it chugged off in an easterly direction.

Beccause of the ship's enormous size (1.33 million pounds and 275 foot wingspan) it seemed to verily hang in the air (exactly the way a brick doesn't, to quote Douglas Adams) making apparently miniscule forward progress.