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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

Radia and MAGROUP Magnaghi Aerospace Announce Partnership to Develop WindRunner Landing System

WindRunner™: The Only Viable Solution for Enabling Advanced Onshore Wind Technologies

Radia mitigates WindRunner™ CO2e impact

Will Athol

Mark Lundstrom and Rachel Kelley Selected As Endeavor Entrepreneurs

Leaders from Radia Headline Innovation and Technology Programming at CERAWeek by S&P Global 2024

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

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

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

Press Release

DeSolve Study: GigaWind™ has enormous economic and environmental impact 

White Paper

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

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

The WindRunner isn’t a pipe dream—it’s the ambitious project of a startup determined to make renewable energy soar toward a cleaner future

News

Heatmap News

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

An energy company is building the world's largest airplane. Here's why 

MCJ Inevitable Podcast

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

Podcast

Insight

A U.S. startup has emerged from stealth with the promise of enabling the aerospace industry to tap into the growing renewable energy market and diversify a business base built on passenger and cargo aircraft. (Subscription required)

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In episode 9 of the Shift News podcast, hosts Robinson Meyer and Princeton University Professor and energy systems expert Jesse Jenkins talk to Radia’s CEO, Mark Lundstrom. They discuss why the world needs a bigger plane, how such a new aircraft gets licensed, and why massive wind turbines could be such a big deal for renewable electricity. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts.

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Radia has come up with a way to transport the biggest, most efficient wind turbines to inland sites that would otherwise be blocked by bridges, tunnels, and winding roads. Radia foresees that the availability of new wind turbines for onshore use will open up new opportunities for wind development. The company is already looking beyond the goal of simply serving as an airborne shipper of parts for wind farms.

Under wing view of WindRunner in a hangar

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There’s a global energy crisis and onshore wind farms are a potential growth option. Larger wind turbines produce more power than standard ones, but the components are too big to be transported by road. What’s the solution? A Colorado-based energy startup named Radia has an idea. It’s developing the biggest aircraft in aviation history. Meet the WindRunner™ airplane, whose mission will be to deliver gigantic 300-foot-long blades directly to wind farms.

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Colorado company will partner with energy, wind turbine and aerospace leaders to manufacture WindRunner™, a unique cargo aircraft to enable turbines that enable consistent, cost-effective wind power for the grid, green molecules and commercial power users. Radia will expand onshore wind power by building the world’s largest aircraft to deliver big, efficient turbine blades where they couldn’t go before.

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The bigger a wind turbine, the more energy it produces—which is why offshore wind farms have turbines with blades that are as long as a football field. But the largest equipment that exists today can’t be used on land because it’s too big to be delivered on roads. A startup called Radia is working on one potential solution: The largest plane ever made, designed specifically to carry the biggest wind turbine blades to new wind farms while running on sustainable aviation fuel.

WindRunner with nose open, loading two giant turbine blades

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Sitting at a mammoth 356ft long, the revolutionary WindRunner would be longer than the pitch at Wembley Stadium and could hold a whopping 12 times more load than a Boeing 747. Set to carry the huge and heavy blades of a wind turbine on board, the WindRunner™ could officially become the largest plane by length and cargo volume. Read more from The Sun's coverage of Radia.

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The Wall Street Journal covers Radia, the unicorn startup that plans to use rocket science to overcome one of the wind power industry’s biggest hurdles with a giant cargo plane. (Subscription required.)

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Radia CEO and Founder Mark Lundstrom will be among the technology and innovation speakers at CERAWeek 2024 by S&P Global 2024 – the world’s preeminent energy conference – to be held in Houston March 18-22. CERAWeek 2024: Multidimensional Energy Transition: Markets, climate, technology and geopolitics will explore strategies for a multidimensional, multispeed and multifuel energy transition – one that reflects different realities and timelines by region, technology, industry strategies, as well as the variety of social and political approaches and divergent national priorities in an increasingly multipolar world. 

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