MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
From American Liberty News:
A U.S.-based energy startup, Radia, has unveiled plans to build the world's largest cargo aircraft, WindRunner.
The 356-foot-long, four-engine jet aircraft is designed to deliver giant wind turbine blades directly to land-based wind farms. This, especially in remote areas currently inaccessible by air.
Current turbine blades are 230 feet long or less, but Radia wants to deploy blades up to 345 feet long. The company says its GigaWind turbines could be two to three times more powerful and two to three times more profitable than those typically deployed today.
The massive new blades will weigh upwards of 80,000 pounds and will be pulled out and installed right from the aircraft via its nose cargo door. Radia has patented a system for loading blades into WindRunner. It will operate on regional hubs where its blades are imported or manufactured.
WindRunner will use "sustainable" aviation fuel (whatever that means) and needs only a simple 6,000 foot packed-dirt or gravel unimproved runway to land on, something no other large commercial aircraft can achieve. This is something that only the U.S. Air Force's gigantic C-5 Galaxy can now accomplish.
It is twice the size of New York's Statue of Liberty, with a cargo bay that's 12 times larger than a Boeing 747-400, WindRunner will be 355 feet long, 123 feet longer than Boeing's Jumbo Jet.
A U.S.-based energy startup, Radia, has unveiled plans to build the world's largest cargo aircraft, WindRunner.
The 356-foot-long, four-engine jet aircraft is designed to deliver giant wind turbine blades directly to land-based wind farms. This, especially in remote areas currently inaccessible by air.
Current turbine blades are 230 feet long or less, but Radia wants to deploy blades up to 345 feet long. The company says its GigaWind turbines could be two to three times more powerful and two to three times more profitable than those typically deployed today.
The massive new blades will weigh upwards of 80,000 pounds and will be pulled out and installed right from the aircraft via its nose cargo door. Radia has patented a system for loading blades into WindRunner. It will operate on regional hubs where its blades are imported or manufactured.
WindRunner will use "sustainable" aviation fuel (whatever that means) and needs only a simple 6,000 foot packed-dirt or gravel unimproved runway to land on, something no other large commercial aircraft can achieve. This is something that only the U.S. Air Force's gigantic C-5 Galaxy can now accomplish.
It is twice the size of New York's Statue of Liberty, with a cargo bay that's 12 times larger than a Boeing 747-400, WindRunner will be 355 feet long, 123 feet longer than Boeing's Jumbo Jet.
