World's LARGEST Airplane Is INSANE! - Radia Windrunner 

It’s not the world’s largest plane. It’s a proposal. It’s a concept. It’s not a plane. Click bait.

Bring back blimps.

The world's LARGEST Airplane is... not in this video.

Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your videos. You really put so much effort into researching the subject and present it any easy to following way. Keep up the great work. 😃👍

Windpower is stupid compared to small nuclear power plants. Nuclear power has NO weather related shortcomings, and no short lifespan, with power available 24/7!

I struggle to follow technical articles with units of pounds, feet, tons, and hp. Can we have a translation to modern SI units?

Wind turbines? Eek! Environmentally unfriendly from start to finish!

I seem to recall one airship proposal that was to have a 1000 ton cargo capacity. I may be getting that proposal confused with another, but I believe it wasn’t even supposed to be crewed. It was supposed to be part of a fleet of the world’s largest drones, filling a gap between cargo ships and transport planes. Most likely too ambitious, as I never came across any follow-up on the initial concept.

Seems like small rooftop and bird proof windmills should be available for everyone, a few deep cycle batteries and some low wattage equipment / circuits, could reduce the customers lite bill and help with any power outages. I like the round roof vent turbines

Before the 225 was destroy by Russia the 225 landed in Newark international years ago . massive an awe inspiring watched from NJ turnpike .amazing .there has been talk about fixing the 225.as it has a sister ship that was not finished ..please bring her back to life

The jet aircraft just doesn’t make any sense unless an airstrip is available relatively close to the build site. Besides why not just do a longer “747 Dreamlifter” like Boeing did instead of a one off. Also the term biggest must be defined, is it by volume, length or carrying capacity? Long vs tail strikes?

I see the Boeing Dreamlifter fly by my office regularly which is very niche use for a plane. I think the Windrunner would be similar. Ultimately, it will come down to how many airports it can land on to really determine the worth. If it can't land close then what is the point of having it. The Dreamlifter literally rolls off the runway and up to the factory door, which makes it worth it.

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The stratolaunch will never be feasible to launch things to space, it just gives way to little extra velocity to make any difference, after everything is factored in, you can get a maximum of around 15% more mass into orbit, which is nearly completely offset by the additional hardware required to hang a rocket on a plane, resulting in a net zero gain.

Why not build the blades on-site? Or strap them on top of a C-17 or an A380? Like the space shuttle used to ride on a 747.

I think it should be possible to make a plane that straps onto a wing blade instead of inside a hull. With a bulb cap it's quite aerodynamic. Just needs a wing with a could of engines on and a tail section. Shouldn't be too hard.

That blimp idea is good.....wind turbines maybe not so much

This is a best for airplane rinda - winruner 😮

It appears Radia are aiming for an MTOW of 480 tonnes. However, 4 GE-9X engines could support an MTOW of 840 tonnes with a M0.6 cruise at 11,000 metres.

There's enough clearance for this to use the forthcomming RR Ultrafan. Imagine 4 of those under the wings!

The 2 body aircraft needs to join those and for a large wing-like body for more strength, cargo capacity with higher lift; also install 2 turbofans on the tail of it. Vertical small vertical stabilizers like 3 of them on the mid section and the 3 larger on the tail. this could allow more fuel too

Good report thanks.

4 engines is enough??? Maybe with those new GE Monsters!!!

Antarctica will soon have beachfront properties. A wind farm could power the subterranean mega-resorts that Elon, Jeff and Mark will have built there and those blimps will be the perfect ride to get there. There is also a nice quaint "airport", w/a 3000 meter runway (no passport required, it's not a country!) and some retro-chic bungalows for the workers. But BYO snacks, no hunting allowed, with you as the exception, you can be _hunted_ by the locals.

I would like to add the ridiculous energy loss of construction if you have to use only one of these planes just to transport a single fin. Bad Idea. A shipping carrier makes more sense. There is no incentive to shipping one in a day vs dozens over 2 weeks in a standard ship. This might be necessary for extreme inland situations, but that's it.

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3:53 Much BETTER idea, airships and dirigibles.

everything is insane those days

Why don't they just put a propeller, engine wings & wheels on the turbine blade itself & then fly that to the location. I'm sure it would be easy to computerize the flight controls to compensate for aerodynamic weirdness.

1:08 Worth noting that the Ukrainians destroyed the An-255 while they bombarded the airport it was located at. They were hoping to deny Russians access to the airport and got sloppy. 🤷‍♂️

I do always love your videos. Definitely makes me wonder what is possible.😊 Off topic, but I’d be keen to see a house or building made out of recycled carbon fibre wind turbine blades.😂😂😂 But seriously who wouldn’t want a carbon fibre house???🇦🇺🤜🏼🤛🏼😎🍀☮️☮️☮️

This is a video about blade transportation. little plane detail. Misleading

Bummer windmill blades don't last more than a year or so!

The next generation of wind turbines are going to be around 20 MW bur will only be deployed offshore.

225 was... lost... yes even so big things can get lost.

AN-225 was destroyed, right?

I did, in fact, enjoy the video!

Not a new idea. The Germans experimented with the Heinkel He 111Z Zwilling ("Twin"). Never saw combat.

Realy I like this largest airplane

Looks really green

Looks like a pregnant guppy.

We are going to make super costly planes to carry props... yep zero money wasted here.

Why the double tail? It’s a rhetorical question.

They would be a dinosaur, much like the spruce goose. Wind turbines are being replaced daily.

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Howars Hughes should have made a flying box that would fly in Ground efect. Instead he made a flying Beauty Queen.

Very beautiful sweet object looking❤❤❤❤❤

If apple designed planes.

A plane that would be buit for a deformed market. I see no troubles there.

Could it be more practical to fabricate the blades near where they are needed? If that were the case, they'd do it, right? Sigh, now I'm going to have to open a new browser tab and perhaps regret it.

Looks like a scam to get your money. The renewables energy industry isn't going to transport low carbon energy components around in an aircraft. They manufacture as close to the wind farm site as possible. The largest blades are for offshore turbines and there is a well established system using purpose built ships for those as well as port facilities. How many onshore wind farms are next to an airstrip? And if you need trucks to get to the wind farm, you may as well truck it from a port.

Interesting. Are you aware that your voice sounds like it is synthetic?

Just pay a govt for them to give -tax break- discount for manufacturing components on site, in their country. Boom. Problem solved.

Surely there's an alternative to those ridiculously oversized 'windmill' generators; this is engineering stupidity.

Vaporware.

I have a better idea, stop making large wind turbines

Speech therapist could help you out a lot... on the other hand, let AI do your talking.

Antonov AN-225 was destroyed in the Ukraine - the only example left.

One more reason to stick it to the Russians. Rip Maria

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Pffft! I've made way bigger airplanes on X-Plane.

Built to transport Giant windmill blades? Turbines are catching on fire and falling down. I know, Govt will continue to subsidize Green energy pipe dreams.

More clickbait BS. Just what we need...

Another stupid solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

air freighting wind trubines is uttelry ridiculous and must increase costs massively and their carbon foorprint, which is already large and lets not mention the other environemnetal impacts or their ludricrous inefficiency. We abandoned windmills in the 1700s for a good reason.

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Click bait sh*t. Wind turbines are a joke too.

With a wind turbine lifespans averaging under ten years, this concept is proof again at how economically unfeasible wind power generation is. With Co2 comprising .04% of the atmosphere, blaming CO2 as the environmental boogeyman is neither logical nor practical, when the alternatives are considered. Leave the cult. Alternative energy production has shown it's ineffectiveness in power production and it's totally unaffordable in cost-over-life analysis. Lets get back to the only reliable and cost effective power generation systems: NUCLEAR.

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Well Wind Energy productions Future is very limited now that REALITY has set in. Why bother designing an aircraft for such a specific purpose of a dying tech ?

Your title is click-bait, but you know that. Thumbs down.

Wind Farms are one of if not the most disgusting things in the modern world, completely and utterly necessary.

That Antonov six engine large transport aircraft was destroy last year in the Ukraine war.

It’s an ugly arse thing. Maybe Elon could invent something to carry around bits of starship and subcontract it out? Although, that’s probably crossed his mind and been deleted as financially impractical.

Dreadful commentary. Very difficult to understand the English at the speed you or the robot talks. Communication is essential. Interesting aeroplane.

All this to make better bird swatters.

Wind turbines need to be abolished. There are far better ways of making energy then those wastes of space and material.