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> What’s the solution? A Colorado-based energy startup named Radia has an idea. It’s developing the biggest aircraft in aviation history. It is of course, not
by perilunar 3y ago
> What’s the solution? A Colorado-based energy startup named Radia has an idea. It’s developing the biggest aircraft in aviation history.
It is of course, not the biggest aircraft in aviation history — that honour belongs to the two Hindenburg-class airships, LZ 129 Hindenburg and LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin.
It's also shorter than the SpaceX Starship + Super Heavy combo is tall, (356 vs 397 ft), so it wouldn't even be the largest current aircraft. (Arguably a rocket isn't an aircraft, but Starship has large flaps, and Super Heavy has grid fins, so I think they count.)
- alexvoda 3y agoIt can safely claim the title of longest airplane. I don't understand why companies and media agencies feel the need to overclaim. Biggest aircraft really is a fuzzy thing. What is big? The StratoLaunch, the Hughes H4 and the An-225 have a bigger wingspan. The Beluga Xl, the DreamLifter and the AN-225 have a bigger lift capacity. What is an aircraft? As you mentioned airships and the Starship + Super Heavy both outclass it. There is no shame in claiming longest plane or largest internal volume plane instead of biggest aircraft.