An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- March 27, 2024
- March 26, 2024
- March 25, 2024
- March 24, 2024
- March 23, 2024
- March 22, 2024
- March 21, 2024
August 9, 2016 11:46 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/trdJqFJua1w/worlds-longest-aircraft-look.html
World's longest aircraft looks like ass, literally
The Airlander 10 hybrid airplane-airship, the world's longest aircraft at 302 feet long, emerged from its hangar at Cardington Airfield, Bedfordshire, England. The British company Hybrid Air Vehicles developed the prototype over the last decade, originally supported by a US Army contract, and expect the design to have commercial applications in used surveillance, communications, transporting cargo, humanitarian missions and passenger travel. The firm should ask Sir Mix-A-Lot to record a jingle: "I like big butts and this one can fly..." (BBC, thanks Rick Pescovitz!)Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/trdJqFJua1w/worlds-longest-aircraft-look.html
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article