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

Radia originally built the Windrunner to carry wind turbine blades, but now wants to airlift batches of Chinooks and fighter ...

C-17 and C-5 Cargo Planes Will Be Replaced With One Aircraft: USAF

Plans for a Next Generation Airlift platform, or NGAL, targeted for entry into service in the 2040s, are starting to coalesce.
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The Air Force’s Next Cargo Plane Could Be a ‘Flying Aircraft Carrier’—Sort Of

Although the WindRunner is still in the developmental stage, Radia has aimed for the heavy lifter to make its maiden flight by the end of the decade.
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Air Force Rescue Wing Saves Cargo Ship Crewman 780 Miles off California Coast

Airmen from the 129th Rescue Wing of the U.S. Air Force carried out a long-range rescue mission to aid the crew of the Grand Vega, a Panama-flagged cargo ship about 780 nautical miles off the ...

WindRunner is coming! Can the world's largest cargo plane ferry 4 F-35Cs, 4 F-16s, 12 AH-64 Apache choppers in its belly?

Compared to the military cargo planes in service, an aircraft which will dwarf all of them is being proposed and is likely to ...

Elroy Air Names Autonomous VTOL Manufacturing Partner

Elroy Air has named the company that will build its autonomous, vertical takeoff and landing cargo carrier, the Chaparral, ...
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Today In SCV History: September 20, 1954 – C-46 Cargo Plane Crashes At Saugus ‘Drunk Farm’

On September 20, 1954, a U.S. Air Force C-46 cargo plane carrying 17 Civil Air Patrol chaplains and three crew members ...
Aviation Week Network

Skunk Works Unveils Stealthy Collaborative Combat Aircraft Design

O.J. Sanchez, vice president and general manager of Skunk Works, told reporters the Vectis design takes work from the ...
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US military to get world’s largest cargo plane to haul fighters, Apaches, boosters

On September 19, US aerospace company Radia announced a massive new cargo aircraft designed to move outsized military ...
Air Force Times on MSN

Who is John Frum? Inside the ‘cargo cult’ that worships American GIs

Dancers celebrating the anniversary of the John Frum cargo cult on the island of Tanna in the Vanuatu archipelago. (Ben ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Air Crews Remember the Reliable KC-10 with Affection

Operation El Dorado Canyon in 1986 solidified the KC-10’s legendary status during a time of global tension. The mission aimed ...