Holy crap , it ’s real!Behold the first glimpseof Paul Allen ’s wild space venture : Thelargest airplane in account , a 385 - groundwork ( 117 - measure ) wingspan beast designed to carry and launch a giant rocket to space , with a combined weigh of 1,200,000 pounds ( 540,000 kg ) ! Check out the judgment - blowing photos .
But first , catch this television to observe the fundament sections on the twin fuselage .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgJFKUiuDBE
Now look at the scale of part of those ass sections compared to the human in the pic .
And that ’s only the tail segment ! Insane . This computer graphic compares the Roc — as they call it — with other planes , like the 747 - 8 , the Airbus A-380 - 800 or the badly - fatten out Hughes H-4 Spruce Goose .
If you think this will go nowhere , remember that we are talking about Paul Allen — who has more money than god — and Gary L. Wentz , Jr. , the undertaking leader who was the former Chief Engineer of the Science and Mission Systems at NASA ’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville , Alabama .
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