This is Radia's first go at designing and building an aircraft (Picture: Radia)

The team developing the largest cargo aircraft ever built has said that its military capabilities could be a game-changer. 

The Radia WindRunner is so vast that it can carry six fully constructed Chinook helicopters. 

It is 109 metres long with a payload bay capacity roughly 12 times that of a Boeing 747.

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Mel Johnson, Radia's vice president of regulatory affairs, said: "It is a very remarkable scale.