A startup wants to build the world's largest cargo plane big enough to carry wind turbines the size of a football field — take a look

Sat, 03/30/2024 - 06:56

The Radia WindRunner in a field surrounded by wind turbines. It is unloading a giant turbine. — Radia wants to ship giant turbines around the world via a behemoth cargo plane called WindRunner.
Radia

Radia, a Colorado-based startup, wants to build the world's largest cargo plane.
Billed the WindRunner, the plane's sole purpose is to carry oversized wind turbine blades.
The company aims to deliver turbine blades that are difficult to ship by ground.

A Colorado-based startup wants to build the world's largest cargo plane that's about the length of a football field.

Its sole purpose: to deliver giant wind turbine blades.

Radia — founded in 2016 by MIT-educated rocket scientist Mark Lundstrom — says it wants to usher in the next phase of wind energy by solving a logistics problem attached to installing larger wind turbines.