We must find a name. It is not an airship, although in part it behaves as such, as it floats in the air supported by the helium; is not a plane, even if a little 'it is, thanks to engines, wings and rudder: 60% blimp, 40% air ... Let's call the airship, for now.
With 93 meters long, a little less than a football field, is the largest ever built - at least among the
survivors of its species: the ill-fated Hindenburg measured 245 meters long, just under the ill-fated Titanic. These days you are assembling the last pieces before taking him outside and fly it, in a matter of weeks. The missing pieces at the moment are in that 40% of air: the rudder and wings, first, and then the engines, which will give you the boost when starting.
DIRIGIBILE WAR. The mega transport is born of a US Army project to transport vehicles and troops, then abandoned - perhaps for vulnerabilities. The project has thus become English and, thanks to a crowdfunding (collective financing) which has yielded 2.2 million pounds, the Airlander 10 is finally born (the "airship own" name). The tank "test" was carried out with 37,000 cubic meters of helium (enough to fill 15 Olympic swimming pools, if you really want someone to swim in helium), while the airship was firmly anchored to the gigantic concrete panettone. Now only missing the test flight (to complete assembly), expected in March: the crew will have to travel a hundred kilometers to test all the maneuvers.
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