World's largest aircraft back to earth on test flight - oops!

[turboplanner]

World's largest aircraft crashes gently in second test flight

[fly_tornado]

Probably need to learn how to fly it a bit better

 

 

[M61A1]

Yeah, he should probably get onto a flying forum, no shortage of experts there to tell him how to do it properly...

[fly_tornado]

I thought the Airlander might have worked and then I found out it was a cancelled military project.

 

... and then I wondered what military brain can't put a large slow moving target in front of a taliban fighter armed with a RPG and not see various possible outcomes.

 

 

[Yenn]

According to todays ABC news it was the size of 6 double decker buses. Obviously nowhere near the size of a Zeppelin, in fact I would say a 747 is about that size.

 

 

[kasper]

Yes, not in the same size class - 91m long vs 245m, 38000m^2 vs 200,000m^2

 

But it is the largest current aircraft.

 

And never forget that despite its size and the fact it looks like a big marshmallow it has 20,000kg of airframe as its inertial mass ... running into the ground at a few miles an hour still really buggers up the front end with that sort of mass behind it

 

 

[M61A1]

Yes, not in the same size class - 91m long vs 245m, 38000m^2 vs 200,000m^2But it is the largest current aircraft.

 

the fact it looks like a big marshmallow

It looks like a giant arxe.....

 

 

[turboplanner]

World's largest aircraft has bumpy landing

 

Video view

 

 

[johnm]

at least it did n't go 'pop' ............................. most did - unfortunately

 

 

[Marty_d]

It looks like a giant arxe.....[ATTACH=full]45329[/ATTACH]

Maybe it was just trying to sit down....

 

 

[Happyflyer]

Maybe it was just trying to sit down....

No, it went ars* up.

 

 

[SDQDI]

Hmmf just looked like a typical nose wheel pilots wheelbarrow approach:amazon:

 

Ok maybe he/she was a tailwheel pilot and tried wheeling it on:whistling:

 

 

[bexrbetter]

Gee some of the pictures in this thread bring back memories.

 

 

[pmccarthy]

That's the biggest Tradesman's Smile I have ever seen.

 

 

[Downunder]

Read something about a dangling rope catching a pole.......... gotta watch the simple things!

 

Someone called it the "flying bum", I think just "Kim" would sound better.....