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Radia develops world-class onshore wind energy projects to deliver GigaWind: the largest and most powerful wind turbines available on the market.

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Radia

Aerospace Leaders Aernnova, Leonardo and AFuzion Will Partner With Radia to Build WindRunner™, World’s Largest Aircraft

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Business Wire

Radia to Provide Low-Cost Clean Energy with the World’s Biggest Wind Turbines Enabled by the World’s Largest Aircraft

General Mike Minihan Joins Radia as Strategic Advisor

Major General Kenneth Thad Bibb, Jr. Joins Radia

Radia and U.S. Department of Defense Collaborate to Assess Utility of WindRunner™ for Dual Use Civil-Military Oversized/ Outsized Cargo Operations

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DeSolve Study: GigaWind™ has enormous economic and environmental impact 

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The Wall Street Journal

How the World’s Biggest Plane Would Supersize Wind Energy

The Sun

Inside plans for world’s biggest plane that can carry 12 times as much as Boeing

Fast Company

This will be the world’s largest plane—and it was designed to deliver just one thing

Business Insider

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

TIME

Why an Energy Company Is Building the World’s Biggest Plane

Aviation Week & Space Technology

 World’s Longest Aircraft Would Transport Giant Wind Turbine Blades

Gigantic new aircraft design aims to create the largest plane ever to fly

CleanTechnica

The WindRunner™ Cometh: Game Over For Foes Of Wind Farms

Recharge 

Building the world’s biggest ever aircraft can change wind power forever, claims its creator

World Economic Forum

Why an energy company is building the world's biggest plane

First Suppliers Named For World’s Longest Aircraft

The New York Times

Building the world’s biggest plane to help catch the wind

'It's not science fiction': The moonshot effort to supersize solar and wind

Aerospace Manufacturing & Design

Radia chooses Collier Aerospace software for WindRunner structural sizing

Royal Aeronautical Society

WindRunner - the biggest of the big

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Heatmap News

Why a Climate Startup Is Building the World’s Biggest Airplane

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MCJ Inevitable Podcast

This Giant Aircraft Aims to Break Wind Energy’s Size Limits

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Insight

 – Radia, the developer of a transformational outsized, high-volume cargo aircraft, the WindRunner™, today announced a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).  With a length of 356 feet (109m) and a wingspan of 261 feet (80m), the WindRunner will have twelve times the volume of the 747 and the ability to land on short and unpaved runways.  The CRADA, a research partnership between Radia and U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) will focus on understanding the feasibility and operational effectiveness of the WindRunner as a potential commercial carrier option to support critical DoD logistics and transportation needs, such as through the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF).  The agreement allows Radia and DoD to assess how the unique capabilities of the WindRunner allow moving critical military-unique cargo—and to serve the broader civil/ military oversized cargo market. 

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Radia, developer of the largest high-volume, heavy-lift cargo aircraft, the WindRunner™, is proud to announce that General Mike Minihan, USAF (Ret), has joined the company as a strategic advisor. In this role, General Minihan will support Radia as it introduces its transformational WindRunner aircraft into the U.S. and international defense markets. 

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Radia, the aerospace innovator behind WindRunner™—the world’s largest cargo aircraft—is pleased to welcome Major General Kenneth “Thad” Bibb, Jr., USAF (Ret), as Vice President of Business Development for Defense. General Bibb brings decades of military aviation and logistics leadership to help guide Radia’s growing role in supporting U.S. and allied defense operations.

For almost a decade, Radia, a company based in Boulder, Colo., has been working on developing what would be the world’s largest plane, one that it said would have a dozen times the cargo volume of a Boeing 747.

Radia’s WindRunner aircraft would solve a crucial problem for the wind power industry. Giant wind turbine blades are more efficient, but often can’t be easily shipped across aging roads and bridges.

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One of the challenges for developers of wind farms is the logistics of moving the lengthy turbine blades to rural areas by truck or rail. For Colorado-based Radia, the solution is to develop a specialty jumbo aircraft with the ability to carry a single turbine blade that could be about 50 per cent longer than those currently used at wind farms.

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Collier Aerospace Corp., developer of the HyperX computer-aided engineering (CAE) solution, announced Radia Inc. selected its design and analysis software for the structural sizing of WindRunner – the world’s largest aircraft. Structural sizing is the critical process of determining the size and weight of primary aircraft structures.

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Radia has designed its enormous WindRunner to transport turbine blades to remote sites by air. CHRIS POCOCK investigates a project that could result in the world’s largest aircraft.

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Boulder, CO, USA. November 20, 2024 – Today, Radia is pleased to announce that Italian aerospace company MAGROUP Magnaghi Aerospace will be developing the landing system for the WindRunner aircraft. Magnaghi 

 that will develop various on-board systems for WindRunner, including Leonardo in Italy who will develop the fuselage.

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Radia is developing the WindRunner, the world’s largest aircraft, specifically designed to transport massive offshore wind turbine blades—some reaching the length of football fields—to onshore sites. This capability, termed "GigaWind," could redefine the scope and scale of onshore wind projects. Radia isn’t stopping at building these groundbreaking aircraft; they also plan to develop wind energy projects to catalyze the GigaWind transformation. 

This episode dives into Radia’s verticalized approach to addressing a major challenge in wind energy: the physical limitations of transporting turbine blades via the U.S. interstate highway system. By circumventing these constraints, Radia envisions a future where wind farms can reach unprecedented scales.

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