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25th August 2016 #1
'Airlander 10': Witness Describes Horrible Nosedive On Crashlanding
Watch video footage as the world's longest aircraft - part plane and part airship, dubbed "the flying bum" - hits the ground, sustaining damage to its cockpit ... after it had nosedived to the tarmac during its second test flight from Bedfordshire's Cardington Airfield.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...-a7207291.html
Fortunately, ... ... there were no casualties involved as a result.
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25th August 2016 #2
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Well it is just a test flight, testing revealed a weakness, gravity I think this might even be only the second ever flight by this craft. It is full of inert Helium gas, not explosive Hydrogen.
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Practice makes perfect.
There were lots of false starts alng the way during the development of many of our most dependable modern machines. Perhaps not as much instant reporting of such, that's all.
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