Originally Posted by
Andrewgr2
I’m amused that the BBC say the Airlander was ‘retired’ after 7 test flights. Is ‘retiring’ an adequate euphemism for what actually happened? HAV’s publicity maintains that Airlander does not need a mooring mast and yet it was breaking away from a mast in relatively benign weather conditions that resulted in it ‘retiring’! How will it cope with h real weather when on the ground?
I'm just pleased that it ended up deflated and caught on a hedgerow, otherwise it would have blown over my way and probably ended up in my back garden, I'm only a few hundred metres away from its mooring spot.