The Airlander-10, the largest aircraft in the world, made its maiden voyage
The giant of the skies, the Airlander-10, the largest aircraft in the world, yesterday made successful maiden flight in Britain, impressing everyone with its appearance and its size.
It is an airship filled with helium gas, which was designed and constructed by a small British company Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV). The boat combines technologies of airplanes, helicopters and airships.
The Airlander-10 has a length of 92 meters and width of 43.5 meters, almost as a football field, surpassing even the largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380 (known as "super-jumbo"). It is also much cheaper, costing about 25 million pounds, compared with 287 million. Pounds of A380.
The futuristic aircraft can remain in the air to a height of 6,100 meters for five days when crew and up to two weeks when not manned.
Its advantage is that it can take off from and land on almost any surface, even on / in water, carrying cargo to ten tons, ie similar weight with a military transport helicopter "Chinook".
The manufacturer hopes his creation will be used inter alia for goods transport, search and rescue missions, aerial surveillance, providing wireless Internet and communications (Wi-Fi), tourist trips etc.
Initially the creation of aircraft supported by the US Air Force with about $ 300 million., On the grounds that it would be useful to fly for weeks over the battlefield. But when in 2013 made cuts in defense spending of the US government, the Airlander program had an inglorious end.
Then, the British company Hybrid Air Vehicles, which had made the original design, found the funds to buy the rights of the aircraft again, without the top secret of American military equipment. The company had paid nearly $ 100 million. From the US to develop the Airlander and got back giving only $ 300,000 - a very lucrative agreement for the same.
With the help of British private investors after several delays, finally Airlander-10 flew. Now HAV plans its listing on the stock exchange by the end of 2016 to raise another 30 million. Pounds. Its aim is to manufacture 100 aircraft over the next five years, and believes that the demand could even reach up to 1,000 aircraft, according to the British "Guardian".
Already Airlander-10 attracts the interest of the armed forces of different countries and the HAV believes that, initially at least, 40% to 50% of uses will be military. The large amount which can fly, allowing it to stay outside shot by enemy forces on the ground, except for specialized ground-air antieroporika.
Of course, no one can pull the mind of catastrophic accidents in older aircraft, such as the "Hindenburg", but its creators insist that it is incomparably safer thanks to resistant materials of new technology and new systems of.
The giant of the skies, the Airlander-10, the largest aircraft in the world, yesterday made successful maiden flight in Britain, impressing everyone with its appearance and its size.
It is an airship filled with helium gas, which was designed and constructed by a small British company Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV). The boat combines technologies of airplanes, helicopters and airships.
The Airlander-10 has a length of 92 meters and width of 43.5 meters, almost as a football field, surpassing even the largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380 (known as "super-jumbo"). It is also much cheaper, costing about 25 million pounds, compared with 287 million. Pounds of A380.
The futuristic aircraft can remain in the air to a height of 6,100 meters for five days when crew and up to two weeks when not manned.
Its advantage is that it can take off from and land on almost any surface, even on / in water, carrying cargo to ten tons, ie similar weight with a military transport helicopter "Chinook".
The manufacturer hopes his creation will be used inter alia for goods transport, search and rescue missions, aerial surveillance, providing wireless Internet and communications (Wi-Fi), tourist trips etc.
Initially the creation of aircraft supported by the US Air Force with about $ 300 million., On the grounds that it would be useful to fly for weeks over the battlefield. But when in 2013 made cuts in defense spending of the US government, the Airlander program had an inglorious end.
Then, the British company Hybrid Air Vehicles, which had made the original design, found the funds to buy the rights of the aircraft again, without the top secret of American military equipment. The company had paid nearly $ 100 million. From the US to develop the Airlander and got back giving only $ 300,000 - a very lucrative agreement for the same.
With the help of British private investors after several delays, finally Airlander-10 flew. Now HAV plans its listing on the stock exchange by the end of 2016 to raise another 30 million. Pounds. Its aim is to manufacture 100 aircraft over the next five years, and believes that the demand could even reach up to 1,000 aircraft, according to the British "Guardian".
Already Airlander-10 attracts the interest of the armed forces of different countries and the HAV believes that, initially at least, 40% to 50% of uses will be military. The large amount which can fly, allowing it to stay outside shot by enemy forces on the ground, except for specialized ground-air antieroporika.
Of course, no one can pull the mind of catastrophic accidents in older aircraft, such as the "Hindenburg", but its creators insist that it is incomparably safer thanks to resistant materials of new technology and new systems of.
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