Airlander incident.

[Trevatanus]

Hope all is ok and no injuries.

http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc...

[Eric Mc]

The R101 managed better than that.

[Scotty2]

Oh the humanity!

[Mutley]

Non fb link;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-he...

[Trevatanus]

Trevatanus said:

Hope all is ok and no injuries.

http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc...

Cheers Mutley, that's what I meant to paste. Damn cut and paste
:/

[Mutley]

Trevatanus said:

Trevatanus said:

Hope all is ok and no injuries.

http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc...

Cheers Mutley, that's what I meant to paste. Damn cut and paste
:/

NP. Have had that problem too many times with FB.

All I can say about the landing is OOOOPS!

[maffski]

Video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg-RPTiVa_Q

Story on the Daily Mail says they had a line hanging and it caught up on a telegraph pole.

[Pints]

A spokesman said: "The flight went really well and the only issue was when it landed."

Then not a brilliant flight, is it! "Welcome to Magaluf. We had a great flight, just a pity we didn't deploy the landing gear. Enjoy your stay and we look forward to you flying with us again."

[DMN]

Does seem to nose down very suddenly.

Hopefully everyone is ok and well, and they can learn some lessons to improve it.

[Eric Mc]

Do those thrusters look like they are angled the wrong way during the final approach phase?

[cptsideways]

Now it appears to me that its a very very big sail & with a very small propulsion system. It does not take much working out that in a gust of wind it won't be going anywhere near where you want it to.

Sailing + windsurfing experience tells me that is not a good recipe when you have approximately a 500m sq sail area. Rough man maths suggests a meter of sail can generate 300w, call it half that of energy roughly 500m = roughly 2,000,000w of power not even in a generous wind.

How much waft does this have? Please tell me I'm wrong by miles.

[Vixpy1]

Pints said:

A spokesman said: "The flight went really well and the only issue was when it landed."

Then not a brilliant flight, is it! "Welcome to Magaluf. We had a great flight, just a pity we didn't deploy the landing gear. Enjoy your stay and we look forward to you flying with us again."

'Please stay seated while captain crash taxi's what's left of the plane to the terminal'

[Mutley]

Eric Mc said:

Do those thrusters look like they are angled the wrong way during the final approach phase?

The thrusters look to be trying to counter the nose down attitude. In the photo posted, you can see a dragging line, and with the flight crew not knowing why nose down, attempting to bring the nose up?

[Eric Mc]

Most airships land with a dragging line. It's for the ground handlers to grab.

There is talk that this line snagged a telegraph pole.

If that is the case, it smacks of poor planning.

[CAPP0]

Eric Mc said:

It's for the ground handlers to grab

" 'ere, Fred, can you just hang on to this 92m balloon for a minute?"

[saaby93]

maffski said:

Video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg-RPTiVa_Q

Have you seen all the news agencies wanting to take the video with offer of a link back his site

I am from unsavoury news co and would like to give you nothing for you video
Send me your bank details and you can check later how much cash is still there

[Eric Mc]

CAPP0 said:

Eric Mc said:

It's for the ground handlers to grab

" 'ere, Fred, can you just hang on to this 92m balloon for a minute?"

You may well laugh, but it's the way it's always been done - with tragic consequences on at least one occasion -




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7pon1YL8CM

[ecsrobin]

Reason number 50 why no one is flying airships around. I really do think they are just burning money on this project, there's a reason the US binned the project.

[Eric Mc]

They are just too unwieldy to manage easily.

[IIIRestorerIII]

Eric Mc said:

Most airships land with a dragging line. It's for the ground handlers to grab.

There is talk that this line snagged a telegraph pole.

If that is the case, it smacks of poor planning.

Hook, line and sinker.

What a bummer!