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World largest aircraft by Paul Allen's Stratolaunch features, design, purpose
The world largest airplane with the world largest wingspan successfully passes its first engine test. Stratolaunch world largest airplane designed to serve as a mobile launch platform to carry rockets into low-Earth orbit
The world’s largest airplane with the world’s largest wingspan has successfully completed its initial engine tests.
The world’s largest wingspan has been designed to serve as a launching platform for sending rockets into low-Earth orbit, has successfully completed its initial engine tests.
The plane weighs about 227,000 kg and has the biggest wingspan ever built, measuring 118 m from one end to the other.
In the initial tests, each of the six engines of the plane operated as expected, according to the spaceflight company Stratolaunch, which is led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
About the world’s largest airplane Plan:
The 747 turbofan engines of the plane were loaded with fuel and started one at a time and then allowed to idle at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, US.
The world largest airplane which has the double-bodied airplane is designed to serve as a mobile launch platform to carry rockets into low-Earth orbit.
The satellite-carrying rockets are to be connected to the bottom of the plane.
The workings of it will include a runway-style takeoff and when the aircraft reaches a cruising altitude of 11000 m, the rockets it is carrying will detach and then launch small satellites into low-Earth orbit.
The world’s largest airplane’s main feature of the plan Named Stratolaunch:
* The plane weighs nearly 227,000 kg when empty and unfueled and it was designed to carry nearly 250,000 kg between the two fuselages.
* The aircraft's wingspan is longer than a professional football as Measuring 118 m from one end to the other, field.
* The vehicle has 28 wheels to support its size and weight.
* The world largest airplane can hold more than 113,000 kg of fuel.
* It is powered by six engines made for Boeing 747 aircraft.
