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The Biggest Plane Boeing Ever Built Was Too Heavy To Fly Over The Ocean

True innovation is built on the back of countless failures, and nowhere is that clearer than in the aerospace industry, which has produced some of history's funniest and most bizarre designs. Goodyear ...
Newsweek

Shocking Moment Passengers Are Told Their Plane Is ‘Too Heavy for Takeoff’

EasyJet, a U.K.-based airline, removed more than a dozen passengers from a plane as the aircraft was "over the weight limits" and unable to take off. The moment was captured in a viral video on TikTok ...
New York Post

Pilot asks 20 Canary Islands tourists to deplane ‘too heavy’ aircraft

A pilot asked 20 passengers on a flight departing from Spain’s Canary Islands to deplane because it was “too heavy” and weather conditions were unfavorable, video circulating on social media shows.
The National Interest

DARPA’s Latest Project: Ground-Effect Heavy Lift Aircraft

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the secretive group behind some of the United States’ most radical and advanced defense projects, wants to “revolutionize” heavy air life with a large, ...
American Machinist

Sikorsky Supplying More Cargo Copters for USMC

Sikorsky Aircraft will build nine more CH-53K ™ heavy-lift helicopters for the U.S. Navy under a new contract that includes agreement on the price for a follow-on orders. With a reported value of $878 ...