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Wind turbine blade-gobbling world’s largest plane may join US military’s cargo fleet
Interesting Engineering ^
| May 22, 2025
| Abhishek Bhardwaj
Posted on 05/22/2025 5:43:10 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: 04-Bravo; 1FASTGLOCK45; 1stFreedom; 2ndDivisionVet; 2sheds; 60Gunner; 6AL-4V; A.A. Cunningham; ...
AVIATION PING!....................
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posted on
05/22/2025 5:43:26 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
This author too is an idiot.
False premise behind the concept and wings are too small.
The idea that this aircraft serves a military purpose is laughable.
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posted on
05/22/2025 5:48:33 AM PDT
by
logi_cal869
(-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
To: Red Badger
To: Red Badger
The manufacturers probably realized that the wind turbine market was not a growth area and said to themselves, “What do we do with this thing now that it probably won’t be carrying very many turbine blades?”
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posted on
05/22/2025 5:51:30 AM PDT
by
17th Miss Regt
(Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
To: logi_cal869
“Everything is impossible until someone does it.” - Robert Heinlein................
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posted on
05/22/2025 5:51:39 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
How long a runway would you need for that thing??
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posted on
05/22/2025 5:52:05 AM PDT
by
alancarp
(George Orwell was an optimist.)
To: Red Badger
Sounds like an awesome airplane. Just wondering though, would a jet fighter plane need to be inside a cargo plane? Could not the fighter plane just simply spread its wings, get fuel and fly on its own power?
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posted on
05/22/2025 5:52:34 AM PDT
by
Trumpet 1
(US Constitution is my guide.)
To: logi_cal869; Red Badger
I thought it was a plane that was powered by a wind turbine. Hey, can I get a grant for that? I want to be a “start-up” too!
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posted on
05/22/2025 5:53:14 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
05/22/2025 5:53:56 AM PDT
by
chuckb87
To: alancarp
/\.............................
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posted on
05/22/2025 5:54:16 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Trumpet 1
Yes it could, but you would have to fly the pilots back in another aircraft and the tankers would have to fly back as well............
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posted on
05/22/2025 5:56:28 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Larry Lucido
For some reason I thought that company was planning to use an uopen turbofan engine.
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posted on
05/22/2025 5:58:25 AM PDT
by
SecondAmendment
(The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
To: Red Badger
Maybe this thing was designed to destroy and move all the Wind Farms on land and sea...in order to
GET RID OF THEM SOMEHOW
PLEASE GOD LET IT BE SO, AS REDICULOUS AS IT SOUNDS
To: Red Badger
Now I’ve heard of everything…a fossil fuel gobbling gigantic jet to carry “giga-wind” wind turbines blades to save the earth from the destruction of fossil fuels.
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posted on
05/22/2025 6:05:37 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
To: Red Badger
I nominate this as the most poorly worded headline today.
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posted on
05/22/2025 6:06:28 AM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
To: Red Badger
How do you fit a 328 foot blade in a plane that’s 300 feet long?
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posted on
05/22/2025 6:11:43 AM PDT
by
ZOOKER
To: ZOOKER
... the 356 feet (109 meters) long aircraft..............
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posted on
05/22/2025 6:18:13 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
Modified for drone carrier/flying missile frigate
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posted on
05/22/2025 6:18:34 AM PDT
by
gnarledmaw
(If you dont like my sense of humor, please let me know so I can laugh at you too.)
To: Trumpet 1
Unless the fighter is busted beyond deployment repair and had to be transported back somewhere.
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posted on
05/22/2025 6:18:49 AM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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