Given the recent destruction of the only Antonov 225 super heavy lift cargo plane ... what will the next generation of heavy lift planes look like?
What is the biggest cargo they will carry?
What is the widest cargo?
Tallest cargo?
Longest cargo?
Heaviest cargo?
How heavy?
How fast?
How long...
Artist's impression of British Hovercraft Corporation (BHC) Hoverfreighter at sea. This 4,000 ton 480-ft long oceangoing hovercraft would have had a cruising speed of 50 knots with a load of 2,000 tons.
Model of BHC Hoverfreighter.
Source:
http://www.hovercraft-museum.org/concepts.html
Coopership Industries was a company founded in 1996 to design and build (very) large rigid hull airships. The website at www.coopership.com appears to have disappeared in the early 2000s, but included this info on the proposed airship:
The attached picture comes from a January 2001 article in...
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