The brain child behind the megaplane comes from Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen’s and vision of normalizing access to low orbit Earth. He started working on this company back in 2011 and began ...

ALTHOUGH now abandoned and rusting, the 302ft Soviet megaplane Caspian Sea Monster was once a force to be reckoned with. The formidable ekranoplan, bigger than a Boeing 747 and armed to the teeth with ...

Hyperloop One raised $85 million at a valuation of more than $700 million, Faraday Future cuts loose its Nevada factory and incentives and Stratolaunch megaplane fires all six engines for the first ...

During an early voyage of the experimental Kalinin K-7, the aircraft crashed, killing fourteen passengers and forcing Stalin to scrap the project. But an artist has reimagined an alternate history ...

The CL-1201 was one of the most ambitious aircraft designs ever conceived: 560 feet long, 1,120 feet across, and powered by a nuclear reactor. Though it never left the drawing board, this video ...

Stratolaunch, the firm working to bring the aerospace vision of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen to life, says the high-performing engine will produce 200,000 lbf of force when the system is ...

It was designed to become the grande dame of aviation, an enormous modern plane that could seat 544 passengers – 853 if you squeezed people in – on two decks, replacing the venerable Boeing 747 with a ...

The biggest airplane in the world by wingspan (385 feet, enough to reach through both goalposts on a football field with length to spare) just took another step toward first flight. Stratolaunch has ...

When you see a plane with a 385-foot wingspan that can launch rockets mid-flight, it's hard not to get excited about human ingenuity when it comes to reaching space. Now Stratolaunch Systems, the ...

The hybrid boat-plane was built to carry out lightning attacks on ships ALTHOUGH now abandoned and rusting, the 302ft Soviet megaplane Caspian Sea Monster was once a force to be reckoned with. The ...