World’s largest aircraft ever takes to the sky

Posted on 16 Apr 2019 by Maddy White

The world’s largest aircraft has taken to the sky for its initial test flight over the Mojave Desert.

The first flight of the largest all-composite aircraft ever, the Stratolaunch, was completed over the weekend. With a wingspan greater than the length of an American football pitch, the Stratolaunch aircraft took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port in North America (13 April). Designed to launch rockets into low Earth orbit, it achieved…

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