Most Insane Cargo Plane Ever - Boeing Resource Carrier One

We now have a discord: & Patreon: With a wingspan of 500 feet, 12 engines, 56 wheels and a carrying capacity of 2,3 million pounds - this plane was five times more powerful than an Antonov An-225 and could be listed as the most insane cargo plane ever designed. But it would never be built. When the US government opened up northern Alaska to the oil industry, there was a question of how to get the resources from the far icy north down the refineries in the south. Boeing realized that air transportation would be the solution for this stranded oil and that earlier engineers had overlooked two very important factors. Firstly, that the oil wouldn’t have to go from Alaska to California, but rather it could go from Alaska to the shipping lanes near the Canadian border, traveling the rest of the way by boat. Another mistake was basing the sortie times on commercial operations, like the Boeing 747. As