Extending close to the length of a football field, U.K.-based Hybrid Air Vehicles’ (HAV) Airlander 10—dubbed “The Flying Bum” by the British public due to its double-ellipsoid airframe—is designed to be the world’s longest aircraft. Eventually, though, the 10-ton payload model could be the smallest in the Airlander family.
“We’ve always looked at larger Airlanders,” George Land, executive sales director for HAV, told FLYING, “and we’d always thought that probably a 50-ton aircraft was the next step up.”
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