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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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Mark Lundstrom and Rachel Kelley Selected As Endeavor Entrepreneurs

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General Mike Minihan Joins Radia as Strategic Advisor

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

Giuseppe Giordo to Serve as President and CEO of Radia’s Italian Operations

Radia Expands Global WindRunner™ Supply Network with Five New Aerospace Partnerships

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DeSolve Study: GigaWind™ has enormous economic and environmental impact 

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The Wall Street Journal

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The Sun

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

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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

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World Economic Forum

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The New York Times

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Aerospace Manufacturing & Design

Radia chooses Collier Aerospace software for WindRunner structural sizing

Royal Aeronautical Society

WindRunner - the biggest of the big

L'USINE NOUVELLE

Production of the WindRunner, the world's largest cargo plane, will be 70% European

FlightGlobal

Radia sees expanded use cases for gargantuan WindRunner freighter

Radia appoints Giordo as new President and CEO for Italy

Aerospace Global News

Radia expands WindRunner supply network

European Defence Review

Radia and U.S. Department of Defense Collaborate to Assess Utility of WindRunner™

Milano Finanza

Radia Expands Supplier Network for WindRunner

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Heatmap News

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Three aerospace leaders – Aernnova, Leonardo and AFuzion – will partner with Radia on WindRunner™, the world’s largest aircraft. Radia is developing WindRunner to deliver the largest, most efficient wind turbine blades, expand the reach of wind energy and transform its economics, enabling the world to meet its climate goals. The companies are joining Radia’s innovation ecosystem and will be available to discuss the partnerships at the 2024 Farnborough International Airshow.

Aerospace leaders Aernnova, Leonardo and AFuzion join Radia's partner ecosystem to help build WindRunner

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Radia has announced its first supplier partners on development of the WindRunner, planned to be the world’s largest aircraft and designed to fly giant wind turbine blades directly to onshore wind farms. “As a veteran of the wind turbine industry, I can attest to the urgent need for the solution that WindRunner represents,” says Aernnova CEO Ricardo Chocarro, who was previously CEO of onshore business for Spanish-German wind turbine manufacturer Siemens Gamesa. “The WindRunner initiative is an interesting example of how the aerospace industry continues to provide a key contribution to sustainability,” says Stefano Bortoli, managing director of Leonardo’s aerostructures division. Read more in Aviation Week's exclusive story on Radia's newly announced partners Aernnova, Leonardo and AFuzion.

WindRunner with nose open, loading two giant turbine blades

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Ask people what they think of when they hear the words “flying” and “climate” and their answers are likely to involve negative environmental impacts. Mark Lundstrom is working to rewrite this narrative, as the founder and CEO of Radia, a company building the world’s biggest aeroplane. In a recent episode of the World Economic Forum’s Meet the Leader podcast, Lundstrom talked to Linda Lacina about the development of this ambitious craft and turbines, and the drivers behind his work in the clean energy space. Here are some key messages from the conversation.

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Mark Lundstrom is the CEO and founder of Radia. In this episode of World Economic Forum's 

podcast, he explains to host Linda Lacina why he's building the world's largest plane – and how that can speed progress on tackling emissions. He also shares why this company is focused on using just existing technologies, and why this approach can lead to a host of new solutions for innovators and tackle big challenges more quickly.

Mark Lundstrom featured in WEF's Meet the Leader podcast series

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Unlocking potential to build the biggest turbines on land will ‘roughly triple’ global area in which wind is economically viable. Onshore wind is crucial to helping the world decarbonise but has long been limited by the problem that the biggest turbine blades are extremely difficult, if not impossible, to deliver by land. WindRunner™ will be able to fly a turbine blade up to 105 metres – as long as a football pitch – to a wind farm. 

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Chart showing CO2 emissions by power source, with natural gas having the highest, followed by solar, standard wind, then GigaWind

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Wind energy’s CO2e emissions impact is mostly frontloaded and unrelated to the turbine’s energy generation. While transportation has a small impact compared to the contribution of manufacturing and raw materials (which contribute up to 90% of CO2e emissions associated with wind energy), GigaWind™ – Radia’s term for the largest onshore wind turbines of today and the even larger ones of tomorrow – ultimately mitigates the impact of all by maximizing green wind energy output at lower cost and higher efficiency. WindRunner™ itself is designed to operate with the smallest possible impact on CO2e emissions. Take a deeper look at how WindRunner and GigaWind have a net positive impact, both in the short term and in the complete lifecycle of a GigaWind energy project. 

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When it takes to the skies, the Radia WindRunner™ will be the world’s largest cargo plane. As fascinating as it is, what’s most interesting about Radia to me isn’t the aircraft itself. Indeed, founder and CEO Mark Lundstrom told me over coffee that he directed the company’s engineers to follow the mantra of “do nothing new.” The plane is built using existing technologies to ease the engineering and subsequent certification process. Radia will be an energy company, building clean energy projects, says Lundstrom. And those wind projects are only the cornerstone in Lundstrom’s vision of a much bigger energy company. Read more from TIME's Justin Worland.

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Comparison of standard wind versus GigaWind turbine size and power output

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Figure 2_Tree diagram showing challenges with modifying existing aircraft and the WindRunner solution

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Manufacturers of today’s and tomorrow’s largest onshore turbines – what Radia calls GigaWind™ – face a colossal challenge when it comes to deployment. Due to GigaWind’s enormous size – particularly its blades – manufacturers find it practically impossible to transport these blades on the ground. The three most obvious solutions currently available to get around this challenge are segmented blades, manufacturing blades onsite and aerial transport, but the only solution that will work for GigaWind is Radia’s purpose-built aerial transport solution, the WindRunner™ – the world’s largest aircraft.

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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. Tall turbine towers with bigger blades can harness more energy since they can take better advantage of the faster wind speeds available at high altitudes. But the bigger the blades, the harder they are to transport. Radia's giant cargo plane, called the WindRunner™, hopes to fly over those barriers. 

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