Airlander 10: Longest aircraft damaged during flight

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: BBC

The world's largest aircraft - the Airlander 10 - has been damaged when it took a nosedive during its second test flight.

The 302ft (92m) long aircraft - which is part plane and part airship - was damaged during the flight from Cardington Airfield in Bedfordshire.

The £25m craft is understood to have sustained damage to its cockpit when it hit the ground at about 11:00 BST.

HAV, the developer, said all the crew were "safe and well".

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You had one job.

[DetlefK]

1. To be fair: It wasn't damaged "during flight". It was damaged while landing.

[Renew Deal]

4. Agree

The headline is poorly written

[CentralMass]

2. Hmmm. It's taking a dive.

[n2doc]

3. Well, it is supposed to land on air

Should have called in Dirtlander if they wanted to use it in this way!

[brush]

5. That's about the ugliest thing going. What exactly is it designed to do?

It's huge and all, but does it carry cargo, passengers, weapons — what?

There are plenty of other aircraft that do those things and are much smaller and certainly more aesthetically pleasing.

It seems it's huge just to be huge.

[hunter]

6. It can stay in the air for five days.

Other sorts of aircraft can do that too, for example solar powered aircraft.

Simply stated, Airlander can lift more stuff.

[brush]

7. But where is the cargo hole? I only see the passenger gondola hanging under the gas bags.

[cstanleytech]

9. Not to much atm but who knows where it might lead to in the future

after the oil is all gone and those big fuel sucking airplanes are giant paperweights sitting on the ground.

[dembotoz]

8. i am cheering for it...at least the technology

it could be rather useful

[BumRushDaShow]

10. "when it took a nosedive"