Oh, wait... nobody said that? Huh, I could’ve sworn I thought I heard someone say that. Man, Schizophrenia is certainly an experience.

I seem to have a thing for making absolutely massive flying wings. First it was the XFWB, then it was the XFWAC, after that I made the TR-6 TELOS, and now, I’ve made the Lockheed Martin CL-1201, an absolutely insane proposed aircraft design conceived during the late 1960’s, that supposedly, would’ve weighed nearly 12 Million lbs, was powered by a Nuclear Reactor that produced 1.83 Gigawatts of energy, could take off vertically using 182 Boeing 747 engines, could carry 22 F4 Phantoms, and the tip speed of the blades on the four main jet engines, all of which are wider than the Boeing 747‘s fuselage in diameter, would be hypersonic, which is absolutely mind blowing.

Even for today’s engineering capabilities, a project like this would require an unfathomable amount of time and resources, let alone the insane amount of engineering feats in order to get it to work. A modern version would probably carry F-22’s or some other 4th-5th Gen Fighter, and it may have different engines, but still! For 1960-1970, something of this magnitude was absolutely impossible with the current resources and time at hand, and even if possible, the question of if it would even be useful in warfare, or if it would even work for that matter, still lies unanswered.

ANYWAY-

By sheer coincidence, the user @Notaleopard started making a replica of the same aircraft I was working on, the CL-1201 Flying Aircraft Carrier. So you may have already seen his rendition of the craft, so here’s mine! Probably gonna post this weekend, so be sure to comment “T” to be tagged in the post if you so desire.