World's Largest Flying Machine: The $40M Airlander

April 30 (Bloomberg) --- Meet the Airlander. The super blimp has a top speed of 100 miles per hour, can carry 50 tons of equipment and operate in the most extreme weather. Part plane, airship, helicopter, and hovercraft, the U.S. Army spent $300 million to develop Airlander as a floating spy center. Now, a British company is giving the flying machine a new life. (Source: Bloomberg) -- Subscribe to Bloomberg on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/Bloomberg Bloomberg Television offers extensive coverage and analysis of international business news and stories of global importance. It is available in more than 310 million households worldwide and reaches the most affluent and influential viewers in terms of household income, asset value and education levels. With production hubs in London, New York and Hong Kong, the network provides 24-hour continuous coverage of the people, companies and ideas that move the markets

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1. Hmmm. What did they do different than the Cargolifter years ago? I wonder how they´ll manage to counter the loss of cargo weight on unloading the fright? This is one of the problems the Cargolifter simply could not solve... But anyway, it´s nice to see really large airships in the skies again. I´ll stay on it....
2. Is nothing compairing with what was R101 and Hindenburg.
3. $25 million not $40,000,000 !
4. Oh, the humanity!
5. Dat ass!
6. Correction, World's largest ass.
7. It looks like a big giant ass.
8. That's a big Ass plane.
9. Hindenburg v2: Shaped like ass, filled with gas.
10. Dickinson is on board lml
11. British design and technology at its best. Would much rather see these doing local cross country flights than normal aircraft!
12. Airship ready！