Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Airlander 10 has Crashed.

I really wish I didn't have to write this story today, but the second test flight of the Airlander 10 has ended in catastrophic failure.

As you can see from the video it looks like the pilot losses control and fails to keep the nose up, leading to a heavy nose down crash landing. Both pilots were not hurt in the incident.

However unfortunately the gondola is completely cracked and it will probably take months for them to repair it, assuming HAV doesn't go defunct in that time.

This has really upset me and I'm not thinking very objectively at the moment, I need some time to think this over, figure out what went wrong, hope that the damaged isn't as bad as it looks and pray to whatever higher power might exist out there that this crash doesn't kill the Second Golden Age of Airships before it has even started.

I'll have a more detailed report and analysis latter. 

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