Airlander 10 Crashes

artmo · 12-08-2007

The world's longest aircraft, Airlander 10, crashed on landing in Bedfordshire today.

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.

billnotben · 23-09-2010

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.

gleneagles · 02-08-2007

Not a good start, fortunately no one was injured.

billnotben · 23-09-2010

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?

Minivanman · 04-11-2014

At least it didn't bounce back up into the air again!

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billnotben · 23-09-2010

The video wasn't much to watch. A snail "crashing" into a wall.

twocvbloke · 06-11-2014

If that was a crash, then, was the Hindenburg a planetary explosion?

Minivanman · 04-11-2014

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

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