Its excellent to see that the Hybrid Air Vehicles, Airlander 10 airship has just completed a successful test flight from its hanger at Cardington Airfield. The airship is the world's longest aircraft and during its test flight flew up to 500 feet and reached speeds of around 35 knots.I've flown on many different types of aircraft and on my list of aircraft that I'd like to fly in is an airship, so hopefully in time HAV will be able to secure investment to develop a passenger model.
Whats your thoughts, would you like to see passenger airships make a return to the skies and if so would you be prepared to fly in one?
Further details on the test flight can be found here.
There's also a great video you can view here on our IET.tv YouTube channel.
(Photo courtesy of the Engineer website).