This HUGE Nuclear Powered Plane Could Fly For 41 Days

In 1969, Lockheed designed a nuclear-powered flying fortress so massive, it could launch fighter jets from 30,000 feet and stay airborne for 41 days straight.

With a wingspan longer than three Boeing 747s, the CL-1201 wasn’t science fiction — it was a real engineering proposal by the legendary Skunk Works team. It could carry 845 crew, command entire military campaigns from the stratosphere, and operate without ever landing. This jet wasn’t just big, it was a war base in the sky.

So why was it never built? Why did the most ambitious aircraft design in U.S. history vanish almost entirely from the public record? In this video, we uncover the secrets of the CL-1201, the nuclear-powered megastructure that could have changed everything — but disappeared before it ever took flight.

A jet too dangerous to exist. A dream too bold to survive.

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