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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

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

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. 

Mark Lundstrom_CERAWeek Voices of Innovation

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Rome, Italy — Radia has been selected as an Endeavor Entrepreneur, a prestigious global recognition for high-impact, high-growth entrepreneurs. Radia’s journey towards this accolade culminated at the Endeavor International Selection Panel (ISP) held in Rome last week.

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Download the Report

A new report by Princeton University researchers Dr. Jesse Jenkins and Dr. Nestor Sepulveda projects the U.S. power grid will use renewable energy produced using bigger and better wind turbines, delivered to more and more places, as fast and as quickly as they can be deployed and can produce energy. According to the report, GigaWind™ deployment enabled by WindRunner™ will have a significant impact on U.S. grid capacity, energy prices and emissions. 

Figure 11_Bar graph displaying large shares of GigaWind in the US power mix when available

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