'world's largest flying craft' - I think not...
Saturn V rocket weighed around 3000 tons, and was 110m long.
Airlander 10 is 20 tons, and 90m long.
Huge flying arse makes successful test flight
The "giant flying bum" Airlander 10 airship has successfully flown for the first time since it nosedived into the ground last summer. The airship crashed in August 2016 because its mooring lines caught on power cables, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch concluded. The resulting nosedive injured nobody but crushed the …
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Thursday 11th May 2017 13:44 GMT Ragarath
Re: 'world's largest flying craft' - I think not...
Does a rocket designed to go up count as flying? Would flying not constitude horizontal as well as vertical flight?
Can't be arsed to look it up but frokm memory the Saturn V did not have any aerofoils that would keep it aloft for long if you pointed it parallel to the Earth.
If I throw I rock through the air is it flying, or falling
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Thursday 11th May 2017 16:24 GMT allthecoolshortnamesweretaken
Re: 'world's largest flying craft' - I think not...
"Does a rocket designed to go up count as flying? Would flying not constitude horizontal as well as vertical flight?"
Oddly enough, in order to go to space (and stay there) you'll have to move sideways, fast.
However, I don't think the Up Goer Five qualifies in this context.
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Thursday 11th May 2017 15:03 GMT Loyal Commenter
One of the few positive things about growing up in Bedford in the '80s was the fact that we used to get buzzed by the Skyship 500 flying our of Cardington (made famous as Max Zorin's airship in View to a Kill). I say buzzed, because you could always hear it quite a long time before you could see it.
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Thursday 11th May 2017 16:34 GMT allthecoolshortnamesweretaken
This one is buzzing around our neigbourhood. Not at all unpleasant, in fact kind of soothing.
Not a proper airship, though.
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Thursday 11th May 2017 17:36 GMT Anonymous Coward
"Not a proper airship, though."
That is correct. It's not even a proper British eccentric flying whatsit. If it were a TRUE UK Hybrid Air Vehicle the whole thing would be painted with the Union Jack, and the cabin section would be a fully functioning hovercraft, which would jettison whilst coming in for a landing, God Save The Queen BLARING out of the externally facing sound system, and finally sending the crew crashing about the cabin (think stewardess covered in tea and bits of scone) and then everyone would say "it could be worse. Yes, during the war we just had single buttocked flying ass-ships and no James Bond Hovercraft Detachable Cabin or scones without rat in them. Yes."
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Friday 12th May 2017 12:15 GMT Anonymous Coward
Are you sure that's the Huge Flying Arse? In this photo it looks more like its sibling craft, the Gigantic Floating Bosom.
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Thursday 11th May 2017 14:17 GMT Tikimon
Re: Gasbags
"Full of politicians then ?" No, they're only used to fill the gasbags aboard ship. The apparatchiks stay on the ground.
Airlander thus have failed to solve a problem of the old airships, that of needing special facilities at ports of call. One can't simply throw a group of politicians in a room, they'll cause all manner of mischief. They would need specialized containment systems at each port of call, probably expensive.
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Friday 12th May 2017 14:05 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: the HMS Callipygean
Unfortunately true. The "[X]y Mc[X]face" thing was funny the first two or three times- long before Boaty McBoatface came along- but nowadays it's all a bit too much people who heard it on 5 Live or The One Show and still think it shows how "hilarious" they are.
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Saturday 13th May 2017 18:31 GMT Solmyr ibn Wali Barad
Re: the HMS Callipygean
"The "[X]y Mc[X]face" thing was funny the first two or three times- long before Boaty McBoatface came along"
Undoubtedly so, but would you spare a thought for foreigners like myself? I had not encountered this gag/meme/whatever before McBoatface and would probably have missed it entirely.
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