Air Force 'Extra Large' - The Supermassive Boeing Pelican - LARGEST CARGO PLANE EVER!
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With the ability to transport an Army brigade of 3,000 troops and 7 and a half thousand tons of equipment within ninety-six hours, this colossal aircraft design would have put America’s army right on the world front door.
And it couldn’t be built fast enough, with the pentagon ramping up design to deliver a fleet of aircraft by the end of 2020.
Its 500-foot wingspan would make it the largest military transport in the world, regulating the Antonov 225 to look like a regional jet, but the accountants at Boeing thought why stop there? They came up with grand plans to change commercial and cargo aviation as well.
But it never happened, and the year 2020 came and went without the ULTRA plane gracing our skies.
This is the story of the Pelican Super Transport!
Design work on the Pelican Super Transport plane began at Boeing Phantom Works in 2000.
The brief from the United States military was fairly straightforward: design a plane large enough to transport thousands of troops, weapons, military equipment and other needed provisions during wartime or at the height of battle as fast as possible.
By way of comparison, one performance standard that the military demanded would be the ability for the aircraft to deploy an Army brigade of 3,000 troops and 7,300 tons of equipment within ninety-six hours, or four days max. compared to the 91 to 183 days, or three to six months, that would normally be required to move those numbers of troops and equipment.
Interestingly, the Boeing Phantom Works team considered at least three different possibilities:
the first was a large blimp or dirigible airship, the second a smaller but wider airship that created dynamic lift while in forwarding motion, and the third a larger airship with wings spanning 700 feet or 213 metres that would fly at low altitude. They were all rejected. Also rejected by the team at Boeing were ideas for a fast ocean-going ship and a sea-based vehicle with ground effect.
Boeing Phantom Works then settled on a ground effect land-based aircraft that would form the basis for the giant Pelican super transporter.
It’s important to note that the Pelican was not designed for contact with bodies of water, which meant it could not take off or land on any body of water.
Instead, it was designed to be lighter and more aerodynamic than other large planes of the seaplane variety.
This is because the Pelican was able to exit ground effect to climb a few thousand feet and thus enter into its descent like other aircraft.
The Pelican’s wingspan therefore allowed the aircraft to fly beyond ground effect.
This ‘beyond ground effect’ capability of the Pelican was unlike other massive ground effect aircraft such as the Soviet Union’s Ekranoplan or Caspian Sea Monster, which could only fly at low altitudes in order to maintain constant ground effect due to its relatively narrow wingspan.
The Pelican would spend most of its time flying at between 20 feet and 50 feet, or roughly six to 15 metres, above the surface, although it would have the all-important ability to cruise at up to 20,000 feet or 6.100 metres in order to avoid terrain and lower-altitude inclement weather.
These specs included:
1. a 500-foot or 152 metre wingspan
2. a wing area of over one acre, which is 43,560 square feet or 4,047 square metres
3. A maximum take-off weight or MTOW of 6 million pounds or 2.7 million kilograms, or 2,700 metric tons. That is equal in weight to 7-and-a-half fully-loaded Boeing 747s!
4. a payload of 1,270 tons of cargo
6. The ability to move the equivalent of 17 M-1 Abrams tanks
This ground effect factor was a big selling point for the military. As Deborah Beron-Rawdon, the head of strategic development within Boeing Phantom Works, said at the time: “The Pelican is land-based, and that's where we are garnering most military support. It seems to have gained a lot of traction recently within the Defense Department. Whether or not there is a civil interest, our focus is on a military version for strategic deployment.”
By the way, the Pelican was conceptually very simple: it was a massive, conventional wing-body-tail cantilevered monoplane, whose payload would be carried in standard sea-going containers inside the enormous, unpressurised fuselage.
The cavernous hull would be able to fit containers two-deep on the main deck, which would also be able to carry outsized vehicles, such as the military's large battle tanks.
An upper deck could be used to store a further single layer of containers. In short, the Pelican was to be a glorified hulk of a cargo plane.
Pelican: I got turned down and couldn’t fulfill my job!
Spruce Goose: *First time?*
Caproni Ca.60 be like: I got more wings than both of you combined
🤣🤣🤣
I said "hop, in!"
Did the puppies make it?
@@Tony-112 Freemasons run the world?
Imagine the sound of those 80,000 hp contra rotating props, the Antonov An-22 which had 15,000 hp engines was loud as hell already, and that's up to this day the largest turboprop plane, with a payload of 'only' 85 tonnes and a wing span of 64,5m.
Ear go boom
@@themuffincat we dont need ears where we are going 😎
Asymmetrical bladed propellers would be needed...
Giant plane go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
What a shame the Antonov 225 doesn't exist any more. Damn Russians.
this plane is just a super sized plane which was put on some serious steroids
It's almost big enough to take all the money they could have spent on universal healthcare.
@@domtweed7323 you must be terrible at parties
@@thegrumpysurfer1806 I love parties, specifically Socialist Partys ;)
Square an 225 lmao
@@thegrumpysurfer1806 j
Ryanair be like:
I like the part where I can put 1 million people on it
If you had said 'in it' I'd be inclined to agree. But since you said 'on it' I curse you wholeheartedly for giving them the idea!
How much for the outdoor seats?
Remember no bathrooms on board gotta get all the extra seats.
Reminds me of the discussion about whether to say astronauts are "on orbit" or "in orbit."
Seats? Michael O'Leary doesn't want people to sit down. If you pack people in tight enough, they'll hold each other upright!
Biggest problem was possibly due to someone taking reality into consideration. For instance, 3,000 Troops and so much equipment, but w/ Troops in mind - can you imagine a fully loaded Pelican going down? In just one accident or attack losing an entire Brigade!?! It would be an irresistible target to any and all enemies! Sometimes it’s not a matter of can we do it but Should we do it!
That was my thought too except that they didn't really need to land that close to theatre, perhaps shaving a couple or few thousand miles off but still a bit too much like eggs in a basket to me.
But that is the same issue transport ships have. Transport ships have been sunk killing thousands of troops at a time. Does that mean you shouldn’t use ships to transport? I would argue that a ship moving at 17 miles and hour in the sea is a far more visible and vulnerable target and it takes a week to cross an ocean rather than a few hours the plane does.
@@gj1234567899999 still has risks; it could be possible to work around them but even then who should know it or know how
Which gaddamn airport is going to handle that?.
@@lordbeerus7803 Probably any of them. The prop engines would allow it to stop on a fairly short runway, and military troops don't need an airport terminal building.
6:10 A modern American super transport cargo plane carrying a 1950’s-era Soviet super heavy tank? Now that’s something I’d love to see IRL
Pelican+Object 279= Badass!
Boeing tech #1: "So, what do we call this thing?"
Boeing tech #2: "How about 'Pelican?'"
Boeing tech #1:"Why 'Pelican?'"
Boeing tech #2: (hides Xbox and copy of Halo under pile of blueprints) *"Oh, no real reason..."*
You could've done an entire episode just on the engines alone! It looks like you could walk upright through the exhaust pipes on those behemoth turbo props
can you imagine this giant carrying civilians & cargo? that would have been amazing! I have been in love with the Pelican since it was announced in tech magazines in the early 2k.
surely would have gotten more people out of Afganistan.
@@IshijimaKairo If the runways could handle it.
Can you imagine its wake? 747s following it would be dropping like flies.
@@robertkirchner7981 are you sure? It’s a turboprop, and would probably fly slowly in crowded areas.
@@JohnGeorgeBauerBuis hes not wrong.
I really hope this concept gets revisited. We know that the ground effect dramatically increases lift and efficiency, and with the supply chain issues the world is currently having, a massive long range cargo plane feels like the future.
I agree.
I don't think the massive scale is a good idea, the Antonov an-225 would see competition if the idea was viable...
The 225 only gets used for special deliveries and spends more time on the ground than in the air, not to mention that with such a massive size, you need to be as close to 100% sure that it won't fail.
@@rudolfthecat1176 you forgot one important thing and thats money, it would take lots of money to keep a large plane flying
Flying freighters just above the ocean surface would indeed have a market place.
They would take the role at sea like freighttrains on land.
Faster but moderate more costly to operate then river barges.
For long commercial hauling the current efficient containerships beats every form of transport of transporting cargo at very low cost.
The ground effect is problematic in turbulent conditions which can create instability.
so cool. it looks like a gigantic flyting boat from the 30s
yeah right, i actually thought it is, until he said 2020
It was
@@Juso0815 I thought it was from the 1950s-1980s, a bit after the 1930s flying boat era.
This looks kinda nice ngl. I think its gonna look nice with jet engines. It’s probably gonna need a lot of engines like 8 i guess or 6 with the new rolls Royce massive engines.
More like 20...
@@My-Opinion-Doesnt-Matter srick 6 GE-90s on it and it would fly
@@Willon idk, it has 2.700 T MTOW, maybe at least 15 ^^
Turboprops=weight,jet engines=speed so with a cargo props are a better idea
@@puzz8930 While the terminology wasn't used correctly, we're talking turbofan engines, not turbojet engines. Turbofans are (almost) never designed for speed, just efficiency and thrust.
Can't wait to see that ess arr 72. The SR71 was awesome.
Umm ya. The SR 71 was amazing. I guess the 72 must be so amazing we don't even know about it?????
Yeah, but it was superseded by spy satellites. The thing also leaked fuel like crazy. Something about how the wings needed to expand in supersonic flight (due to thermal expansion), making the pieces not fit so well on the ground.
ass air 71
@@dennisrogers8107 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_SR-72
Thank you so much for making this video. I've been hoping to see a video on the Pelican transport for a long time. I still remember seeing it in Popular Mechanics when I was still in school. Still fills me with awe.
Glad it was helpful!
@@FoundAndExplained --- Guys, can you call me? Are you in AU? This was interestingly timed. Cheers, Rob.
I wonder where he finds all information about these planes
*The Internet*
@@e.sstudios1015 LOL INternet
Shut your mouth! *wraps hand over your face ---- Looks around*
@@e.sstudios1015 The deep web
90's Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, and Aviation Week magazine subscriptions had tons of info, much of which haven't seen work past prototype or concept; but they were fun reads when I was young.
7:26 What’s a Soviet Object-279 doing on an American military aircraft?
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that
They stole it to make so they can make a decent tank
Was wondering what that was.
The Soviet Object-279 tank was better than all the American tanks from the 21 century, even it was built in the end of the 1950's. And it also looked better with a decent tank!
@@udontknowme7798 Better? Depends on the metric you're measuring. Ground pressure? Definitely, with the four-tracked design. The shaped hull is meant to allow it to weather a shock-wave without tipping over. But being from the tail-end of the 1950's the fire control system is ancient, and of the three prototype units they produced, I only know of one that's in a museum. Who knows about the other two, or what kind of condition they're in.
Always wanted to know about this thing. Never found too many well-written articles on this and now there's an eighteen minute video on it. Nice.
Glad I could help!
@@FoundAndExplained could you make a video on its civilian version? this is harder to come by than the military version.
I will try to find out more.
@@FoundAndExplained if you don't find, you can always make your own conversion, just like what you did with the Antonov.
Rip Antonov 225
Fitting this with a nuclear reactor and electric powered engines would be amazing, it probably has the capabilities to be a flying aircraft carrier
Cl 1002 still bigger
Actually how anout no to the Nuke Reactor.. If one of those is shot down, crashes, or has a fuel leak...
On top of that, you'd need to use a lot of shielding around the reactor core which would dramatically increase weight of the craft, which would ultimately reduce the cargo capacity.
But with a Nuke reactor, it would save on fuel costs.
@@demcomp fusion power would eliminate the radiation leakage risk
@@stalker5299 oh I didn't know we had perfected fusion power...
@@demcomp i didn't know you wanted to build it in 2 days
An "Airship" strictly refers to lighter-than-air Aircraft such as Zeppelins and Blimps. A water-based airplane is known as a seaplane, or flying boat. So what you're telling me is I could use this as a nuclear reactor and the enemy will never know what's coming? If no one else is brave enough to make this a reality, then we will! Unlike them, we have guts, we've been through so much because of them. We have what it takes to stand up
Daddy Kim! :D
keem kardaseehan
North Korea is a failure of a country
You should make a video about the Supermassive Boeing Pelican as a passenger plane
I wish this giant meme was built for the simple reason that I could fly hand-flown ILS approaches in to Kai Tak in stormy weather on flight sims!
It does seem pretty impractical for wartime use. It's a single, probably unarmored target, carrying massive amounts of supplies and/or soldiers. I can't think of a better thing to attack, if you are defending against the US.
You don't deploy a brigade of troops in a middle of a war zone with a airplane. The initial invasion force, secures an area, gains air superiority first and/ or utilizes a friendly area adjacent the hostile area. This would be no different than the unarmored, unescorted c17s and c130s that are used in combat areas all the time, just on a larger scale.
@@coboldelphi plus you could put a radar on that thing that would f̶r̶y̶ detect any incoming aircraft
This would've been very helpful during the Afganistan evacuations
"how many landing gear?"
*y e s*
76!
@@FoundAndExplained that's insane!
Antonov 225: Finally, a worthy opponent. Our size will be legendary
*after sizing up*
Antonov 225: ok i take it back...
Pelican boeing: lucky you are not fat as i do
Am I the only one who can't look at the Phantomworks logo without seeing Darkwing Duck? 😅
The Boeing Pelican concept should be made before 2030, for I can sound record it at high altitudes to see how loud the prop sound is!!!!
If this happened and passed
I WOULD SCREAM
I would take pics while you are screaming and frozen in place.
Would love to see you maybe cover the USS Argo from Godzilla
Man I could imagine the civilian version of it would be a ton of fun to fly on!!! Sadly I’ve only flown on single level national level planes!!! I really wish I could fly just once on the bigger more awesome & powerful planes
Bruh
@@ripxxxtentacion8342 what??
Between Covid and this Howard Hughes is looking more brilliant than ever.
I'm shocked that puppie's lives were put in danger just to feed your desire for subscriptions.
My Avatar is bummed out that he didn't shoot the puppies down...
@@davidhollenshead4892 he woulda shot the kittens down
I used to work for Boeing, left just before the Pelican was officially announced. It was a gigantic plane. I remember when we were developing a super large version of the 747, to compete with Airbus A380. The super 747 project was scrapped due to limited market for large passenger planes. Even the A380 is coming to an end. The Pelican dwarfed the super 747, A380, and AN 225.
The counter rotating props were a smart design because they remove any torque induced yaw. The Russian Tupolev Tu-95 Bomber used counter rotating props with great success.
You can just as easily eliminate torque induced yaw and roll by having an even number of single-prop engines and running the right (starboard) engines clockwise (if looking at the plane from the front) and the left (port) engines counter-clockwise
Nevermind the fact that you'd need to build a bunch of giant reinforced runways just to fly it and a bunch of humongous hangars just for maintenance...
It's not likely that the countries that we would like to invade would be nice enough to build those giant reinforced runways for our military's convenience.
"FIELDMASTER! A Human Pelican is inbound!"
"It is of little concern."
"It carries Demons."
"Hmmmm...then perhaps, we shall have good fight. How many?"
".....all of them"
"............"
"And they all have tanks"
".....ahhh, wort..."
In the beginning. "Today is sponsor is-" Ad of marines. Perfect timing
kinda looks like if a kx and a an-225 had a baby
The band 'Pelican' is amazing to see live.
I've been waiting for the Pelican! Besides that gargantuan nuclear plane it really gives you an idea of what can really fly!
One problem the Pelican would have encountered is that there would be very few runways in the world that could support it. Even the A-380 suffers from limited access.
Big question. Will the airstrips or landing strips be long enough for this Pelican?? All airports would be transformed as well to accomodate this behemoth. Its doubtful if international aviation will give some thumbs up for this.
Well it does have a high-lift design, so I bet it’s take off/ landing speed wouldn’t be high. The C5 Galaxy can take off on short runways, and that’s a pretty big plane
It looks slow, so runway length is probably not a problem. their strength would maybe be one, however, like the width (it's two times larger than the standard maximum wingspan airports are designed around).
Of all the crazy designs. I feel Boeing Pelican probably came the closest to actually being made. Something that was 5x Bigger than Antonov 225. Being due to 787 production issues, Boeing had to focus on getting 787 done right.
That Object 279 being carried by this thing is pretty is a very nice touch
it should have been a Chrysler TV8
I wonder how much cargo a ground-effect, partial-airship design could lift. Blend the rejected #2 design with the final design.
You got it in one. TURTLE AIRSHIP
Very large flying coffin! I like it!
"Beauty is often found in a design's function and its actual ability to perform that function. As it is said, 'Function before form'."
Those wild sci-fi engines though. 650,000hp total, according to Wikipedia. That's like 130 5000hp PW150A's, off of 65 Bombardier Q400's. Holy cats there wouldn't even be enough wingspan to fit them all on it.
This is very interesting. I thought this was supposed to be copy of Ekranoplan and not land on a runway.
The trouble with ekranoplans is that it takes a lot of power to lift out of the water, and they can’t fly over big obstacles. The Pelican was trying to get the efficiency while still being flexible enough to fly inland
Lufthansa 747: Tower, what are the intentions of that absurdly huge transport looming behind me?
Pelican: I'M GOING TO EEEEAT YOOOUUUU!!!
Lufthansa 747: Nani!?
Let's be honest. Who exactly are we invading using this? It maybe true that a single gigantic plane might improve strategic logistic by making fewer trips and higher throughput per trip. the question really isn't that the army needs such a lifter. The question is whether the army can get where it needs to go at the right amount of time. C-5s and C-17s can already transport the largest possible type of cargo like MBTs. They just need to do it more times, and they can do it likely with more redundancy and better surviability and land at rough airstrips.
The Pelican will likely require immensely long and well-built runways so unless the army or marines can capture airports at the beginning of an invasion, it might not be usable. Such a project will not give the military or even civilian users meaningful increase in capability, on top of the likely enormous costs. If speed and throughput is really the problem, the AF and army might as well as just order more C-5s or C-17s. Heck, if they really want to, they can lengthen the C-5s, change to more powerful engines and restart production and now you have a lifter that can transport even more tanks at one go. For civilian side, will it be able to reduce the cost per ton per mile compared to current jets in the fleets? Probably not. There is a reason why we never found a need for more than one An-225.
Whoever in the army came up with the requirements in the first did not really think their way through. This is a solution looking for a problem to solve and that is never a good start to any project.
Hey, i have a suggestion for a video to do. My suggestion is the Kawasaki KX-03, a giant japanese ww2 plane design that would have had the largest wingspan of any plane at that time, having a very similar purpose to the Boeing Pelicans military variant. It would’ve also had (i think) 16 propellers, and around 4 jet engines. You should check it out
Looks like he did it! :D
ruclips.net/video/KdJ-79utLCc/видео.html
(Not sure if you already saw, just sharing incase you haven't)
The fact that “too ugly” was on the list is beyond bizarre. Boeing made billions of dollars and never even had to sell an airplane. Pretty sweet deal.
favorite episode thus far. this plane was something special.
This is making me think of the German Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant
"We shall build The Spruce Goose... But BIGGER AND BETTER!"
That plane looks like it has the aerodynamics of a shipping container
Great content enjoyed your show :)
Thanks for coming
Hi, we have to look back almost 50 years when I saw a magazine article about a similar sized aircraft for a flying oil tanker to transport oil from the Arctic north to the USA.
The ridge company was really banking on the fact nobody's ever heard of a money clip before :/
"See that plane? Its filled with puppies. And Candy."
*Puts a jet crosshair on it*
"I'm going to shoot it down if you don't subscribe"
XD
Shit made me sub so quick lol
This is SOOOOOOO HUGE 🤯
I wonder what its fuel usage would have been, and how long a runway it would have needed.
US Army: Ayo I was thinkin… Could you just build a thicccccc boi
Boeing: Ayo I gotchu fam
US Government: Ayo I was thinking, lets put a billion wheels under it plox
"Imagine a full potential of transport aircraft such as the Pelican during a war" - why yes, I would love to be able to exterminate thousands of troops and destroy thousands of tons of military equipment with a single missile! -- Enemy Army General ;-)
No, the practicality of this project is IMO not debatable - it is simply impractical. Similarly to Adolf H.s gigantic tank designs, or railway guns. It's too costly, too easy to destroy, to big of a loss in the event of any incident, too dependent on available infrastructure (imagine being able to transport thousands of troops to a remote location in 96 hrs, but first you need to spend a year building a special airstrip in said location ;-) ).
Even the practicality of the Pelican as a civil cargo craft is highly questionable. An incident would entail a huge financial loss - in terms of both cargo and craft. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I imagine that there are only a few scenarios, where you actually need to transport a huge amount of cargo from point A to point B. I would think that most cases benefit more from being able to distribute the cargo to several different locations using smaller craft? There must be a reason why there's only one An-225 in operation today and nobody is willing to build another :-)
The reason the AN-225 is even in operation is because of the occasional need to transport super-heavy or bulky items. Similar to the Guppy's and Beluga's, It's not normally used for conventional cargo or civilian transport. It's just not practical to use it that way. They've got the parts sitting in that hangar to build another if they need to, but I don't think the demand is there right now.
It is large enough to mount its own active defense system which I imagine if using it for military you would mount.
P0
Boeing Phantom Works: SUPER SIZE ME…!!!
The Pelican was conceived and noodled into Powerpoint early in America's War on Terror. The Pelican was abandoned and forgotten when America understood that wars abroad against Terror could be managed quite well with existing transport.
You could've done an entire episode just on the engines alone! It looks like you could walk upright through the exhaust pipes on those behemoth turbo props
Air Force one has a Fly Office That is a Fly Office Building LOL
The saying "Never put all your egg's in the one basket" comes to mind. Imagine the loss of life, not to mention the loss of trained Military personnel if one of these Pelican's crashed, if they were made, I believe that inevitably one would crash as the plane is so big & clumsy. You may loose 3000 troop's before you get to the battle. It would have been an amazing plane but putting 3000 troops in one plane is testing fate IMHO. Would still love to see one tile though. I've seen the huge Antanov plane take off, it's really something. Plz do a video on vertical take off in passenger jets, will it be used with passengers on board? It look's insane. Some people would pass out lol. Was it done to save fuel instead of a slow gradual climb? I would love to know more on this topic, take care, peace from Scotland.
You always find a way to explain really interesting subjects =)
Looks like something I would make in a videogame lmao
9:59 is a good example of why I think you'd benefit from a script editor or video editor who's only job is to point out mistakes. In this scenario, the word cavernous is pronounced like "tavern" but "cavern-us"
the surprising thing is not its large cargo but the fact that its TURBOPROPELLER!!!111!!!1
I hope u will soon be able upload videos in 4k so we can see it maximum quality
Read the title as 'The new EXTRA LARGE Air Force One'; was like 'that is too ridiculous'
I know someone who has worked for Boeing Phantom Works all the way back to it's days as part of the St. Louis, Missouri based McDonnell Douglas he started working for McDonnell Douglas in the late 1980s and I think he's work for the now Boeing Phantom Works for 30 or 35 years now. He could never talk that much about his work all he would ever say was, "If I could tell you the things I've help work on it would blow your mind."
Worst thing that ever happened to Boeing was acquisition of McDonald Douglas and adapting its management, until than Boeing was truly a best aircraft manufacturer that produced legendary airplanes like 707 and 747.
when you see some massive plane design, yk its never going to leave the garage.
Who tf subscribed at that last second? I wanted to see a plane go boom
Me : Wow colossal plane
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Did anyone ever discussed a landing exercise? How would the landing gear behave? When the last wheels touch the runway, how would the first ones be?
Belkans, ALWAYS THE DAMN BELKANS!
Talk about putting all your eggs in one basket? Take out a pelican and take out a whole division.
Look at those wheels!
Pentagon: Boeing Pelican out, SpaceX Starship in!
The pelican unitonically looks like the first plane id make I’m simple planes
... Yeah, this would definitely work as a Gaw. You could easily fit 3-5 mobile suits in it.
I have no idea how I've forgotten to subscribe this whole time I've been watching this channel
Keerist. The landing systems on these mega planes has been 'problematic' for decades. Trying to imagine a fire propagating across that insane landing arrangement. Those 'tires' better be made of a metal mesh. Plus the fact it's a monoplane prop driven, essentially makes it a spiritual successor to the Spruce Goose.
These designs are getting closer and closer to airships from ace combat and project wingman
Legal the Big Avion. New Antonov? ✈
In portuguese: Legal o Grande Avião. Novo Antonov? ✈
Note to narrator, a vast amount of times borough is always "burrrh", like Edinburgh when it's preceded, e.g. Farnburrh, but when it's word its pronounced Borough (London) = Bo-er.
What about a mid- air/sea colission between a pelican and a containership? Or a yacht being literally blown out of the water by the tip vorticies?
Make that plane! Filled up with water and control the fires that are burning the world.
@Found and Explained >>> FWIW: *_I_* think the *_Boeing Pelican_* would have been *_BEAUTIFUL._*
*I ❤️ TURBOPROPS*
Must've been target practice for enemy troops as it may be LOUD.
1:25 Pilots in the C-130 getting some mad RWR returns rn and probably calling in reinforcements to your location.
I think it is beautiful, and what a sight it would be flying overhead. I'll bet Howard hughes, if alive, would be onboard with the construction of this Colossus.