Stratolaunch, the World’s Biggest Airplane, Takes Flight

Stratolaunch, the World’s Biggest Airplane, Takes Flight

On Saturday morning, exactly 45 minutes after the sun began to rise over the Mojave Desert, the largest airplane ever created—and its record-breaking 385-foot wingspan—took off for the very first time. The aircraft, from the company Stratolaunch, has been eight years in the making. By 2022, the company hopes to use the twin-fuselage, six-engined, catamaran-style …