These are the Biggest Aircraft that Were Never Built

Discover the massive aircraft that never flew. From oil-carrying giants to nuclear-powered leviathans, explore unrealized behemoths like the Boeing RC-1 and Lockheed CL-1201. Fascinating aviation “what ifs”!

[EAWanderer]

All these aircraft would make a new Ace Combat game sweeter than ever before! 😍

Entirely out of science fiction!

[Kaltagstar]

I kind of love how impractical and massive the Lockheed CL-1201 is, it's like something you'd draw as a kid, if that makes sense? I wouldn't be surprised if the bloke who came up with it just did it as a joke and didn't expect anyone else to actually give it consideration.

[bobbenson]

I lived under a flight path for Dover Air Force base in Delaware, and C5 Galaxy aircraft frequently flew at very low altitudes on approach and takeoffs over my house. It never failed to create a feeling of awe that something that large was just casually running around up there. I still regret never visiting the base to get a closer look at one.

[ignitionfrn]

1:00 - Chapter 1 - Boeing RC1
5:20 - Chapter 2 - Lockheed CL-1201
8:25 - Chapter 3 - Beriev bureau be 2500/5000
10:50 - Chapter 4 - Boeing pelican ultra

[spectrotekservices]

Thank you! Always interesting and unusual stuff!

[CordovaMage]

Can you imagine the hell unleashed if one of those oil planes crashed?

[SciHeartJourney]

That Lockheed design is nearly the size of Star Trek's Enterprise. 🤣
What's also stupid about it is the size of the airfield you'd need.

[joeyfish]

the cl-1201 is like if they tried to make star wars real without the magic metals and science

[SkylerB]

I actually didnt know the An-225 was destroyed and now i am so sad. That thing was absolutely amazing.

[Busto]

Simon using physics & logic to disprove the efficacy of helicarriers

[SSgtJohnEP]

I was a crew chief for C5 Galaxies, largest strictly military plane to exist.

[allanlees]

I adore the idea of an aircraft designed to carry so much (heavy) crude oil that it needed so many engines that it would end up consuming much of the oil it was carrying just to get from point of origin to destination. A new take on the Pareto formula: 80% of the oil consumed to deliver the remaining 20%. An economic miracle.

[lorenzomartin]

A flying aircraft carrier powered by 8 nuclear reactors is the most america-fuck-yeah thing i have ever heard of

[the_MrFloof]

There was a planned cargo & troop-transport hybrid called the Pelican? 😳
*Halo Mjolnir Mix starts playing in the background*

[existenceisillusion]

It takes forever to board 200 passengers, I don't think it would be sensible to try to board 4000. Still, interesting design.

[stevewonder]

Do the same video with warships, please!

[highlandertokio]

Can u make a video about Saunders-Roe Queen and Airliner number four concepts, they were also border line science fiction...

[jimkelly]

What about the "Spruce Goose " from Howard Hughes?

[EAWanderer]

08:40 - Straight out of Thunderbirds! 😅

[bluenosemum]

3 or 4 thousand people all in the hands of Boeing in one go. Frightening!