Sunday, 13 January 2019

World's largest plane edges towards takeoff speeds on the runway

The latest taxi test brings Stratolaunch closer to take-off

After first emerging from its hangar in the middle of 2017, the Stratolaunch aircraft has been slowly but surely edging towards takeoff with a series of increasingly rapid taxi tests. Its latest outing has seen the team clock the gargantuan dual-fuselage plane at speeds fast approaching those typically needed for regular aircraft to lift-off on the runway.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2QLOhDx

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