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Initially, engineers from the United Kingdom built largest modern airship for the military department of the United States however americans some time after launch the project abandoned it, and then the British got a unique the ability to create a civilian aircraft for monitoring land and nature conservation.
The Airlander airship is currently located in English city of Cardington in Bedfordshire. Apparatus placed in a giant hangar where a few days ago happened significant enough event: the aircraft first detached from land. No, the airship hasn’t flown anywhere yet, however it about thirty-seven thousand cubic meters of helium were pumped. it corresponds to the volume of fifteen Olympic pools. Filled inert gas, “Airlander” occupied most of the hangar. To securely fix the airship in place, it took four a forklift truck, each of which was loaded with two-ton blocks from concrete.
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To date, the creation of British aircraft manufacturers is the largest aircraft on the planet, ahead of its even wide-body double-deck aircraft “Airbus A380” French production. However, “Airlander” is still significantly inferior to the German airships of the thirties, therefore the largest aircraft in human history he become, to Unfortunately, I couldn’t.
Technically, Airlander is not a blimp, but a hybrid of a blimp and the plane. Despite the fact that sixty percent of it is lifting the power is provided by helium, the remaining forty percent falls on wings of an aircraft. The ship is able to rise to a height six kilometers with ten tons of cargo. Speed of his movement up to one hundred forty-five kilometers per hour. At one gas station Airlander can stay in the air for about two weeks.
The device is planned to be used for reconnaissance purposes, for scientific research and aerial photography, as well as for monitoring Earth’s surface and nature conservation.
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