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Date: 2018-08-22 15:10:06
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The world's largest airplane is ready to take off in 2019 and unlike any other airplane, this is way beyond our imagination.
What if I tell you it has 2 bodies which have been joined together through wings?
Oops, I think I forgot something BIG...
The wings are longer and by longer I literally mean looooonger, they are 385 feet in length (117 m), which makes it bigger than even a football field (it is 360 feet in length or 109.7 m).
The Scaled Composites Stratolaunch is an aircraft being built for Stratolaunch Systems by Scaled Composites to carry air launch to orbit rockets. The company, Stratolaunch was founded by Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, the project was officially announced in December 2011.
The worlds largest plane has two fuselages and a wingspan longer than football field. What is its function? Oh, just bringing rockets to the edge of space. Say hello to Stratolaunch: pic.twitter.com/RNuCvv9few
— Alex Whitcomb (@AlexWhitcomb) August 20, 2018
The project was started almost a year before the public announcement was made. The company actually began work in early 2010 and had approximately 40 employees working on the project, then.
Stratolaunch has confirmed what most people have long speculated: it’s developing its own launch vehicles for its air-launch system, including a reusable space plane that could eventually carry people. pic.twitter.com/nF9lKVe4xk
— Jeff Foust (@jeff_foust) August 20, 2018
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