The World's Largest Aircraft Has Just Left Its Hangar in Great Britain

[mike2000 is back]

He can't help it. Not so long ago he created a thread where he was comparing the rear exhausts of fighter jets

Ahahahahah..........
He must love butts then.

F-15 wins hands down over anyone....so curvy and well formed.

F- 4 is the ugliest by a country mile hehe.

 

[T90TankGuy]

Haha.. Kim Kardashian reign is over

Dirty boy

 

[MarkusS]

Are these safe what if some terrorist fires at it with a gun?

Regarding booty part, I think it looks like boobies in front but booty on back.

Zeppelins are not destroyable with guns.

In WW I the british fired with machine guns ion the zeppelins and nothing happened. The volume of the zeppelin is so gigantic that it even made it back home to germany

 

[mike2000 is back]

Zeppelins are not destroyable with guns.

In WW I the british fired with machine guns ion the zeppelins and nothing happened. The volume of the zeppelin is so gigantic that it even made it back home to germany

We finally lunched it bro.
I will love to ride in this beauty one day.


World's Largest Aircraft Airlander 10 delights crowds on Maiden voyage.

Credit: PA Images
The world's largest aircraft has taken to the skies for a successful maiden voyage - its first since being revamped in the UK.

The 302ft-long (92-metre) Airlander 10 - part plane, part helicopter, part airship - loomed overhead at Cardington airfield in Bedfordshire as the sun started to set on Wednesday evening.

Photographers and plane spotters baked in the sun as they waited to see the aircraft, whose bulbous exterior has earned it the less-than-glamorous nickname "the flying bum", take off.

Credit: PA Images
Crowds clapped and cheered as the craft soared above them during its first outing from the First World War hangar where it was revealed in March after undergoing "hundreds" of changes by Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) over two years.

First developed for the US government as a long-endurance surveillance aircraft, the British firm launched a campaign to return the craft to the sky after it fell foul of defence cutbacks.

HAV chief executive officer Stephen McGlennan said the team had been waiting for low winds for the launch but added the airship could "operate very happily" in 80 knots of wind.

He said: "Think of a big helicopter, a really giant helicopter. This can do the same thing that a helicopter can do - that's to say, provide air transportation for people and goods without the need for a runway - but this thing can take more over longer distances, it's cheaper and it's greener.

"It's a great British innovation. It's a combination of an aircraft that has parts of normal fixed wing air craft, it's got helicopter, it's got airship."

The Airlander took off at approximately 7.40pm.

http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2016...irlander-10-delights-crowds-on-maiden-voyage/

 

[CrimsonFury]

I cri everytiem

 

[xenon54 out]

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Looks like a unusual landing, nothing serious, we shouldnt be making fun of others archievements bro.

 

[CrimsonFury]

Looks like a unusual landing, nothing serious, we shouldnt be making fun of others archievements bro.

Not landing, it's crash. I wasn't making fun, just good old pokin...although it did fully live up to its name

 

[Penguin]

Not landing, it's crash. I wasn't making fun, just good old pokin...although it did fully live up to its name

Crash is when things actually break.... like explode.

 

[CrimsonFury]

Crash is when things actually break....

Not externally...but maybe internally?

 

[Penguin]

It hit a telephone pole/mast during the flight. And set down rather gently (if unexpectedly) . Airlander sustained damage on landing. No damage was sustained mid-air or as a result of a telegraph pole as reported

 

[pher]

haha, british just so so nowadays.

 

[mike2000 is back]

Not landing, it's crash. I wasn't making fun, just good old pokin...although it did fully live up to its name

Crash, you even know the meaning of crash dude? It's more like a hard landing.
It merely hit a telephone pole during its flight . Maybe pilot error. obviously when you build new revolutionary equipments which no country has fielded as of yet, then you are bound to take more risks. It's still new and incorporates new technology, so we have to test them and get familiar with it before things can start moving smoothly. Mishaps are common when you build new products.
I'm sure we will learn from this and next flight/landing will be more smooth.

haha, british just so so nowadays.

Huh???
You do know that Almost everybody around the world say exactly what you said about Chinese product and equipments right? Lol
We don't make everything, but anything we do make is world class and second to none. Any product from Britain is rightly synonymous to high quality standard to many people around the world .
It's funny to see a Chinese of all people making fun of British products. Lool