747-8 Heavy or Super

[Ari707]

with a MGW of 975,000 will it be a Heavy or Super? is super only for over 1,000,000?

[megatop412]

If the term "Super" is meant to distinguish an aircraft with an even more pronounced wake vortex profile than a "Heavy" aircraft (so as to alert light aircraft following to expect a potentially more turbulent encounter), that I can understand. I hope it wasn't as arbitrary as just to denote an a/c with a gross weight of over a million lbs. That makes about as much sense to me as "Line Up and Wait".

[gonzalu]

Heavy... as per Boeing Field control tower during initial flight...
Freighter is also Heavy...