The world's longest aircraft ???

Rheged · February 28, 2014, 03:07:12 AM

JayBee · February 28, 2014, 03:24:45 AM

Nah! The longest a/c in the world has to be the Boeing 777-900.
I have seen a model of one so it must be real!

rickshaw · February 28, 2014, 03:39:14 AM

For being the world's longest aircraft a payload of only 1225kg is not terribly impressive. Zeppelins were lifting more than that in WW1!

Hobbes · February 28, 2014, 04:01:30 AM

The Hindenburg was 245 m long, this Airlander is 92 m long.

Dizzyfugu · February 28, 2014, 05:41:15 AM

And only controllble in the hangar... try to lift ANYTHING with it in a mild breeze, should be interesting?

eatthis · February 28, 2014, 08:17:46 AM

how long is concorde and the xb70 etc?

PR19_Kit · February 28, 2014, 08:46:00 AM

Concordes were 202 ft long and the XB-70s were 190 ft long.

JayBee's right about the 777-900, it was 390 ft long............

pyro-manic · February 28, 2014, 09:52:17 AM

It's only the tech demonstrator. The projected "service" aircraft will be much larger.

Diamondback · February 28, 2014, 10:20:48 AM

If you count towed antenna cables, then the various TACAMO aircraft and E-4 Nightwatch can get to a couple MILES IIRC... lol

Leading Observer · February 28, 2014, 10:23:47 AM

BBC Website even behind their own local news - may I refer you here: http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,38433.msg628738.html#msg628738

lancer · February 28, 2014, 12:17:27 PM

Just your typical BBC puff piece by a bunch of no nothing 'journolists'