The Walrus: the US Army contemplates building an aircraft the size of a football field

The previously unavailable capabilities of the Walrus/SkyFreighter offer an opportunity to redefine how we transport people and infrastructure around the planet. Instead of building an object, breaking it into small pieces, transporting it by a combination of road, sea and air and then rebuilding it somewhere else, there is now the possibility that transport can be done in one lump, point-to-point, without sea and air port infrastructures.