The world's largest airplane, designed to transport hypersonic vehicles and satellites, soars over California's Mojave Desert | Reuters

The world's largest airplane, the Stratolaunch, is designed to release rockets that will carry satellites into space and has a 385-foot wingspan, features six engines used by the Boeing 747, stands 50 feet tall and can carry more than 500,000 pounds of payload http://cnn.it/2rgwqeG | CNN

A needle-nosed airplane that looks more like a futuristic sketch from a 1950s sci-fi comic, designed and built by NASA and Lockheed Martin, is the supersonic airplane of the future. And when it takes to the skies, you might not even notice it flying by. | CNET