View Full Version : Airlander 10, world's largest aircraft - for interest
Phoenix1969
22nd Mar 2016, 14:02
Airlander 10: World's 'biggest' aircraft unveiled after being fully assembled in the UK - BBC News (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-35864802)
See 0M:44s onwards - still can't get the vision of The World's Largest Flying Bottom out of my head!
HEATHROW DIRECTOR
22nd Mar 2016, 15:59
I can just imagine that thing flying through the LTMA at about 60 knots!
Phoenix1969
22nd Mar 2016, 16:40
Well at least anything hitting it would be safe - they'd just bounce off :D
Chris Scott
22nd Mar 2016, 16:59
Humour aside, would the ATC aspects be much different from those for a slow helicopter?
El Bunto
23rd Mar 2016, 07:02
Perhaps the largest current aircraft but fairly mediocre by historical airship standards. Less than half the length of the big rigids and still about 40 metres short of the largest non-rigids.
After all the hangar in which is currently resides was designed for 220 metre ships...
octavian
24th Mar 2016, 20:41
Errrrrr. Just remind me about the size of the R100 Oh, and what about the R101. And how about the Hindenburg. Graf Zeppelin anybody?