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24-08-2016 3:12 PM
The world's longest aircraft, Airlander 10, crashed on landing in Bedfordshire today.
Crash
it was only its second flight.
Note to Mods: I thought there was already a thread on this aircraft but I can't find it. If you find it could you please merge this post. Thank you.
24-08-2016 3:53 PM
I thought it would have been very difficult for it to crash like that.
Of course if a hanging front rope got tangled around a telegraph pole that would explain it.
24-08-2016 4:30 PM
Not a good start, fortunately no one was injured.
24-08-2016 5:13 PM
Didn't some of the older versions have a single wheel beneath the front cabin?
Maybe it would have helped or maybe it already had one?
24-08-2016 5:19 PM
At least it didn't bounce back up into the air again!
24-08-2016 10:12 PM
The video wasn't much to watch. A snail "crashing" into a wall.
24-08-2016 11:17 PM
If that was a crash, then, was the Hindenburg a planetary explosion?
24-08-2016 11:31 PM
Also known as "the flying bum" according to Wiki.
Named the Martha Gwyn after the company chairman's wife,[27] the craft became popularly known as "the flying bum" for "the resemblance its plump front end shares with a human's back end."[28]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Air_Vehicles_HAV_304_Airlander_10
