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Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Cold War Dreams


Boeing Resource Carrier One - The Biggest Cargo Plane Ever Designed
Found And Explained

On one hand it looks ridiculous, I mean who would build an airplane that big, I mean besides Paul Allen? Even worse, the whole idea of using an aircraft to transport crude oil sounds ridiculous. But you've got to give them credit for dreaming big.

The whole Cold War era was full of grandiose projects, mostly championed by the defense department. I doubt we could tally the number of yards of concrete, tons of steel and zillions of dollars we spent on the Cold War arms race. But it was the threat of war with the Russkies that gave us the impetus to pursue these mad ideas, and some of that washed over into the civilian sector.

The guys who made this video got some of their information from the Aerospace Projects Review website, which, near as I can tell, is run by the same guy who posts The Unwanted Blog, which I follow sporadically.

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