Not a Bird, Not a Plane...
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Not a Bird, Not a Plane...

And not even a blimp. The Jess Heavy Lifter, the new 302-foot aircraft designed by Canadian company SkyHook and manufactured by Boeing, shares features with blimps but brings fuel efficiency to a new level, its designers say. They claim that the aircraft will have two-and-a-half times the carrying capacity while using half the horsepower of the world's current heavy-lifting helicopter, the Russian-built MI-26.
 
 
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