Airlander 10 "breaks in two"

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frisbee said:

Airlander is heavier than air. It is a lifting body.

It's still very low density compared to an aircraft, it's control authority is substantially lower than an aircraft not attempting to generate the majority of its lift from buoyancy.

The reason it operates as a lifting body is to get around the issue that conventional airships have with ground handling where massive teams of men physically held the craft down.