The maiden flight of the world’s longest aircraft has begun – after a previous attempt was abandoned at the last minute.The giant airship nosediving into the ground. The cockpit was damaged, but Hybrid Air Vehicles says the crew are “safe and well.” HAV told Ars that the flight lasted for 100 minutes and that it “completed all the planned tasks.” HAV said the incident was not an unplanned dealtitudinal craft-terrafirma conflict, but rather “a heavy landing” as the craft returned to Cardington Airfield. HAV said it will now run through a “robust set of procedures for flight test activities and investigation of issues” to work out what went wrong. We’ll update this story when the company releases more info. The BBC has some photos of the incident. Embedded below is a video of the heavy landing, captured by an onlooker.
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