After the fall, the only way is up for Airlander

摘要

As he stands near the spot on the grass airfield where the Airlander 10's second flight came to a bumpy end on 24 August - a nose-first landing described as the "world's slowest air crash" - Hybrid Air Vehicles' (HAV's) Chris Daniels admits "the world will be watching" next time the largest aircraft built takes to the skies. HAV - based in the same hangar at Card-ington airfield, near Bedford, where the UK's first airships were built almost a century ago - is working to repair the crew compartment of the 92m (302ft)-long hybrid airship/flying wing and resume its flight test programme.