세계 최대의 비행기 엔진 성능시험 마치다 VIDEO: World's largest plane with a wingspan longer than a FOOTBALL FIELD fires up its six engines for the first time ahead of 2019 test flight

World's largest plane with a wingspan longer than a FOOTBALL FIELD fires up its six engines for the first time ahead of 2019 test flight

Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, unveiled the world's largest aircraft in June 

The six-engine plane has a wingspan of 385 feet which is longer than the length of a football field 

Stratolaunch is designed to carry rockets between its two fuselages before they launch into space from air

The firm started the aircraft’s six Pratt & Whitney turbofan engines for the first time on Tuesday 

축구 경기장 길이보다도 더 긴 세계 최대의 비행기가

2019년 시험 비행에 앞서 6개의 엔진 성능 시험을 마쳤다.

빌 게이츠와 MS를 공동설립한 폴 앨런은 올 6월에 세계 최대의 비행기를

공개했다.

날개 길이만 115.5M 축구장 길이보다 더 긴 이 괴물같은 비행기는 6개의 엔진을

가지고 있다.

이 스트래토론치(Stratolaunch)는 로켓을 대기에서 우주로 진입시키기 위한 

모선 역할을 한다.

황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터 큐레이터

Ki Chul Hwang, conpaper editor, curator

By TIM COLLINS FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 13:11 BST, 21 September 2017 

The world's biggest plane is a step closer to its first flight.

Named Stratolaunch, the colossal aircraft successfully fired all six of its Pratt and Whitney turbofan engines - each weighing 8,940lbs (4,000kg) - for the first time this week.

The plane is the vision of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen who wants it to act as a giant air pad in the sky, allowing payloads to reach space faster and at a lower cost than existing technologies. 

The Stratolaunch aircraft is one step closer to achieving its aim of providing convenient, reliable, and routine access to low Earth orbit, after a milestone breakthrough. Engineers at the firm started all six of the plane's Pratt & Whitney turbofan engines for the first time on Tuesday.

The aircraft is so huge if it sat in the centre of a football field, it would be wide enough for its wings to reach 12.5 feet (3.8 metres) beyond each goalpost.

Instead of a satellite, the Stratolaunch airplane could launch a Dream Chaser spaceship. This could act as a mini-shuttle to reach low Earth orbit destinations and return astronauts or payloads to a runway within 24 hours.

The Stratolaunch, seen above being rolled out of its hangar in California's Mojave Desert, is an aircraft that is designed to carry rockets between its two fuselages

Test flights were expected for 2016 and 2017, but project delays have pushed back the date to sometime in 2019

Read more: 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4906088/First-tests-Stratolaunch-aircraft-s-massive-engines.html#ixzz4tQZGM5Ez 

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