Civilian Aviation

Gave in to the rumours that Airlander would fly on Wednesday evening and cycled down for a look. Glad I did as it eventually went up for it's first flight. Light wasn't great by the time it went up, but was in the right place to ge the Cardington Hangars in the background.

[/url]Airlander First Flight, 17/08/16, Cardington


No flying on Sunday, but very cool to see this up close

[/url]Airlander, Cardington

[/url]Airlander, Cardington

[/url]Airlander, Cardington

Brilliant pictures! Even though I personally think it looks a tad silly.

I like the last shot as the person in the hi-viz helps to scale how big it actually is

james143611 wrote: I like the last shot as the person in the hi-viz helps to scale how big it actually is

yeah, that's why I included that one. It's really difficult to get any sense of scale otherwise.

great pics Alex. nice to see it finally getting airborne

thanks for posting them
Andy

How do you get stuff inside it?

like a payload???

cm/ph

Lovely set of shots..also i wonder if there's any plans to fly Airlander further afield on any test flights ?.Regards Tim