World’s largest aircraft cleared for take-off
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A new airship which is being billed as the world’s largest aircraft has been cleared for take-off.
The Airlander, which is being developed in the UK by Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV), has received both the Flight Conditions approval certificate from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Permit to Fly from the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), enabling it to launch commercial flights.
The airship is 92 metres long – 19 metres longer than an Airbus A380 – and can stay airborne for up to five days at a time if manned, and for more than two weeks unmanned.
There is an area for passengers, and HAV said it would be primarily be used for “communication and survey roles, as well as cargo carrying and tourist passenger flights”.
The programme is being crowd-funded, and HAV reached its target of GBP500,000 (US$706,000) within 10 hours of its launch to the public. The amount raised to-date now stands just short of GBP1 million.
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