‘If We Want Bigger Wind Turbines, We’re Gonna Need Bigger Airplanes’

Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this article from IEEE Spectrum:

The world’s largest airplane, when it’s built, will stretch more than a football field from tip to tail. Sixty percent longer than the biggest existing aircraft, with 12 times as much cargo space as a 747, the behemoth will look like an oil tanker that’s sprouted wings — aeronautical engineering at a preposterous scale.

Called WindRunner, and expected by 2030, it’ll haul just one thing: massive…