Airlander 10 "breaks in two"

Airlander 10 "breaks in two"

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Magog

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2,652 posts

188 months

Saturday 18th November 2017
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This is being reported by the BBC. Was moored and only one minor injury thankfully. From the photo it looks pretty bad, this project seems to have had a run of bad luck. Hopefully not the end of the road for them, but you have to wonder.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-he...

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 18th November 2017
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Pretty much 100 years ago most people realised airships were pretty flawed devices and it looks like that hasn't changed!

MitchT

15,788 posts

208 months

Saturday 18th November 2017
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This project is becoming a bit of a let down.

cerbfan

1,159 posts

226 months

Saturday 18th November 2017
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I imagine the owners are feeling deflated.

Tango13

8,398 posts

175 months

Saturday 18th November 2017
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I saw it flying about yesterday afternoon near Shuttleworth, it seemed to be trimmed a bit 'nose down'

tonyvid

9,869 posts

242 months

Saturday 18th November 2017
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From the BBC story it seems to have broken free from the mooring and auto-deflated. That will be a heck of a job to move like that. I wonder why it broke free as it's been pretty flat calm the last few days...

Ayahuasca

27,427 posts

278 months

Saturday 18th November 2017
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Meh, a bicycle pump will fix that.


anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 18th November 2017
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Silly question, does it have any kind of backbone structure? Is it just a case of pumping it back up again, or is something actually broken inside??

Willhire89

1,327 posts

204 months

Saturday 18th November 2017
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Airlander - you've let yourself down and the whole future of this project down laugh

ShampooEfficient

4,266 posts

210 months

Saturday 18th November 2017
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These puns have gone down like a lead balloon...

300bhp/ton

41,030 posts

189 months

Saturday 18th November 2017
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Tango13 said:
I saw it flying about yesterday afternoon near Shuttleworth, it seemed to be trimmed a bit 'nose down'
I saw it too. About 4:20-4:25. Flying low just heading into Cardington as the sun was setting.

AER

1,142 posts

269 months

Sunday 19th November 2017
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a few tens, or perhaps hundreds, of thousand pounds worth of He disappeared into the universe!

Eric Mc

121,779 posts

264 months

Sunday 19th November 2017
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That's it I think.

Structural problems were always the weak link in airship design.

rog007

5,748 posts

223 months

Sunday 19th November 2017
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I’ve done most things in life you’d call adventurous, but never been up in a hot air balloon...I rest my case.

Mr MXT

7,691 posts

282 months

Sunday 19th November 2017
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Max_Torque said:
Silly question, does it have any kind of backbone structure? Is it just a case of pumping it back up again, or is something actually broken inside??
No backbone, the rigidity comes from the internal pressure.

TheRainMaker

6,302 posts

241 months

Sunday 19th November 2017
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From reading the linked article, it sounds like someone pressed some sort of panic button to stop the thing flying away on it’s own, so I guess they can can refill it and fix any bent bits (must have known to be a problem as the system was it place).

I guess next steps would be, add more bits of string to keep the thing on the ground hehe




Edited by TheRainMaker on Sunday 19th November 10:05

Yipper

5,964 posts

89 months

Sunday 19th November 2017
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Can't believe they're wasting money and time on that thing.

V41LEY

2,889 posts

237 months

Sunday 19th November 2017
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Ayahuasca said:
This photo surely puts the nail in the coffin balloon for this project. I'll take my chances on RyanAir !

hammo19

4,898 posts

195 months

Sunday 19th November 2017
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I’m struggling to see the relevance of this project in today’s technological climate.

otherman

2,190 posts

164 months

Sunday 19th November 2017
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As usual with BBC headlines and inverted commas,

Airlander 'breaks in two'

really means

Airlander doesn't break in two.