#cl-1201

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I may make this an occasional series, posting about various flying aircraft carrier projects.  In any case, this one, the CL-1201, is too bizarre and too big not to post.

Those are airplanes under the wings. This was a Lockheed design study from the early 1970s.  The proposed plane would've been by far the largest plane ever built, would've been powered by turbofan engines and on-board nuclear reactors, would've been able to keep flying continuously for 41 days without refueling, would've used lift-jets to take off and land vertically, and would've carried an air-group of 22 fighters and a crew of 845.  

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