![]() Conservatively going with 80 inches would put him at a tie with the longest wingspan measured at this year’s NFL combine: Former Utah State Quarterback Jordan Love. Doing some deep forensic work by zooming into the tape measure picture would confirm that number, and it might be even longer (I count at least six feet markers visible, and it might extend all the way to seven when the tape measure is straight). Wingspan measurements aren’t commonly public for baseball players, as far as I am aware, but if we go by that ridiculous picture of him in the door frame above - assuming it’s an average door frame height - we can estimate that McKenzie’s wingspan is around 80 inches. The actual velocity stays the same, but the perceived velocity, which is what’s important to fool another human being, increases. He’s barreling down and dropping a missle over the plate right in front of you. He may not be throwing 97 mph, but when he’s fully extended from the rubber, he no longer appears to be a clean 60 feet, six inches away from the plate. This extension (along with a high spin rate) is why his fastball, despite hardly ever reaching the mid or upper ‘90s, has been so effective for him throughout his minor league career. Triston McKenzie’s wingspan is part of what adds to his appearance of being a spindly trebuchet on the mound. tWH2FLYvkr- Ashley Wittgren, MS CSCS August 20, 2020 (Yes I’ve been holding onto these photos for ages for whenever you made your debut I still have the ones of you doing a 3 leg race w Winger as well). Roc’s wingspan was more than 90 feet wider than the iconic Antonov An-225 Mriya, which was destroyed during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last February.Also, once held a foam roller out of my reach over my head while KNEELING. Its wings are wider than Boeing’s 747-8 or Howard Hughes’s mid-century H-4 Hercules-better known as the Spruce Goose. Those 385 feet-from wingtip to wingtip-are what makes Roc the largest airplane in the world by wingspan. This is the number that sets this airplane apart from any other. The airplane was initially named by the company that made it, Scaled Composites, the iconic aviation design and development company founded by aerospace legend Burt Rutan. Surprisingly, that’s not as long as the destroyed Antonov An-225 Mriya or the Boeing 747-8. The airplane measures 238 feet from tip to tail. That’s actually short compared to other large airplanes, including the 747-8 and the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy. ![]() The aircraft measures 238 feet in length. The Stratolaunch Roc stands 50 feet high. The airplane’s 28 wheels help evenly distribute Roc’s titanic load. Roc’s 28 wheels and 24 carbon brakes are included in its 8 landing gear, which also originated from retired 747-400 passenger jets. Pilots can modulate how much clamping force is applied to each side of the aircraft. “Each one is capable of absorbing an incredible amount of energy.” When a pilot hits the brake pedals, it activates a cable system connected to a brake metering valve, which supplies a specific amount of hydraulic pressure to the brake stack. With 24 carbon brakes, Roc has “quite a bit of stopping power,” Stratolaunch lead systems engineer Stuart Yun told FLYING. Like Roc’s engines, these landing gear were acquired from retired Boeing 747-400 airliners. Two sets of nose gear-one for each nose of Roc’s twin fuselages-and six sets of body gear-three per fuselage-to support the center of the gigantic aircraft. The world’s largest airplane needs a total of eight landing gear for takeoff and landing. Six Pratt & Whitney model PW4056 turbofan engines grace the wings of the world’s largest airplane. Other parts of Roc that were sourced from retired 747-400s include: They were acquired from retired Boeing 747-400 passenger jetliners. Roc’s six powerplants are Pratt & Whitney model PW4056 turbofan engines. The airplane’s flight crew is made up of three people: two pilots and a flight engineer. Wearing their green flight suits, pilot Chris “Duff” Guarente, left, flight engineer Jake Riley, center, and pilot Evan “Ivan” Thomas, right, crewed Roc’s first flight in 2019. Roc has two virtually identical fuselages made mostly of carbon composite and separated by a 95-foot center wing. Meet our engineers involved with the hardware integration and learn more about how we are preparing for separation testing and hypersonic flight test. Our team recently installed a pylon on the center wing of Roc that is used to carry and launch the Talon-A test vehicle. Eventually, Roc’s pylon will carry and release an uncrewed, automated, Talon-A hypersonic, rocket-powered testbed vehicle at about F元50 (35,000 feet). Roc has one center-wing pylon measuring 15 feet by 15 feet. Let’s run down a few numbers that help tell Roc’s story and why it stands alone as a unique wonder of modern science and technology. READ MORE: Comparing the World’s Largest Airplanes.
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