{"id":20862,"date":"2024-03-18T12:28:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T12:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/2024\/03\/18\/american-startup-radia-plans-to-build-windrunner-an-airplane-larger-than-boeing-747-jumbo-jet-and-an-225-mriya\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T21:37:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T21:37:52","slug":"american-startup-radia-plans-to-build-windrunner-an-airplane-larger-than-boeing-747-jumbo-jet-and-an-225-mriya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/2024\/03\/18\/american-startup-radia-plans-to-build-windrunner-an-airplane-larger-than-boeing-747-jumbo-jet-and-an-225-mriya\/","title":{"rendered":"American startup Radia plans to build WindRunner, an airplane larger than Boeing 747 &#8220;Jumbo Jet&#8221; and An-225 &#8220;Mriya&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The American startup Radia plans to build a fleet of the world&#8217;s largest WindRunner aircraft to transport the blades of ultra-large offshore wind turbines to the depths of the continent. This was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/tech\/10797886\/worlds-biggest-plane-boeing-radia-windrunner\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/tech\/10797886\/worlds-biggest-plane-boeing-radia-windrunner\/\">The Sun US<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Designed to carry huge and heavy wind turbine blades, the WindRunner could officially become the largest aircraft in terms of length and cargo volume if it is built.<\/p>\n\n<p>Thanks to its impressive size, the WindRunner will be a real beast in the sky.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"903\" height=\"609\" src=\"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/dzhambo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/dzhambo-2.jpg 903w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/dzhambo-2-600x405.jpg 600w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/dzhambo-2-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/dzhambo-2-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/dzhambo-2-860x580.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 903px) 100vw, 903px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>It is 127 feet longer than the Boeing 747 &#8220;Jumbo Jet&#8221; &#8211; the world&#8217;s first wide-body long-haul passenger aircraft manufactured by the American company Boeing and often referred to as the &#8220;Jumbo Jet&#8221; or simply &#8220;747&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n<p>The length of the Radia WindRunner must exceed 108 meters to accommodate the wind turbine blade inside the cargo compartment. This is 24 meters more than the AN-225 Mriya. But the WindRunner&#8217;s wingspan is not as impressive, especially considering the aircraft&#8217;s length of only 80 meters (Stratolaunch Roc &#8211; 117 meters, Hughes H-4 Hercules &#8211; 98 meters, Mriya &#8211; 88 meters). The planned cruising speed of the Radia WindRunner is 715 km\/h, with a maximum payload of 72 tons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American startup Radia plans to build a fleet of the world&#8217;s largest WindRunner aircraft to transport the blades of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_eb_data_table":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/dzhambo-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20879,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20862\/revisions\/20879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}