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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

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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

Radia Announces WindRunner™ for Defense: Redefining Air Mobility with a New Class of Outsized-Volume Air Cargo

Radia Appoints General Chris Badia as Strategic Advisor

Radia and Atitech Announce Strategic Collaboration for WindRunner™

Radia and Maximus Air Collaborate to Pioneer Next-Generation Global Air Cargo Solutions

Radia Showcases WindRunner™, the World’s Largest Aircraft, at the Singapore Air Show 

Radia Appoints Former USAF Lieutenant General Rick Moore as Advisor

Press Release

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

Il Sole 24 Ore

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

Planète Aéro

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

Energia & Mercato

Radia Italia: "The real wind revolution will happen on land."

The upstart company that wants to build the world's largest aircraft

Corriere Della Sera

The World's Largest Airplane will be Built in Italy. "WindRunner, a Super Cargo Plane for Wind Turbines."

EU Defense: The Logistics Knot That Hinders Strategic Autonomy

AeroTime

Radia on how its giant WindRunner aircraft could boost defense in conflict zones

NewstalkZB

World's Largest Aircraft to Take to the Skies by End of the Decade

IEEE Spectrum

If We Want Bigger Wind Turbines, We’re Gonna Need Bigger Airplanes

Industria Italiana

Radia's Windrunner, the world's largest airplane, is reshaping the aviation industry, energy, and beyond

Breaking Defense

How Radia hopes to move DoD cargo with the world’s largest airplane

Ares Osservatorio Difesa

The path to greatness begins with strategic airlift

Aviation Week Network

Radia Unveils Military Windrunner Airlifter Variant

A US startup wants to build a giant military cargo plane that can fit 4 F-35 stealth fighters inside

Defence Industry Europe

Radia unveils WindRunner aircraft project to close critical airlift gap for U.S. and allied defence

Army Recognition

Radia to Develop World’s Largest Military Cargo Aircraft for U.S. and NATO

TurDef

US Unveils WindRunner Mega Military Transport Aircraft

Militarnyi

Radia to Build the World’s Largest Transport Aircraft, the WindRunner

National Interest

The Air Force’s Next Cargo Plane Could Be a ‘Flying Aircraft Carrier’—Sort Of

Le Ravi

WindRunner unveiled : the U.S. cargo plane that delivers whole squadrons ready for action

Air Logistics International

Game-Changing WindRunner's First Flight Comes Into View

The War Zone

Giant WindRunner Cargo Jet Concept Shown Off To USAF

EATC

EATC Hosts Strategic Exchange with RADIA on Future Oversized/Outsized Airlift Capability

Start-up Radia makes Singapore air show debut with WindRunner ultra-heavy-freighter concept

AviationWeek

Radia Responds To U.S. Transcom RFI On WindRunner

Forces News

WindRunner: The largest cargo aircraft ever to be built, capable of carrying six Chinooks

News Coverage

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

DeSolve Study: GigaWind™ has enormous economic and environmental impact 

Strategic Airlift Is a Left Tackle. And Ours Is Breaking Down.

Insight

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. 

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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