AIRLANDER, 5th trial flight. 04-07-17
On the 4th of July 2017 Airlander took to the UK skies for the 5th time, the flight lasted 2 hours and 22 mins. I was, as usual at work but was being kept up to date by my admin team for the facebook page WLTCS https://m.facebook.com/WeLoveTheCardingtonShedshangarsFansPage/
Anyhows mad dash home to get some grub and the live feed came through that she was up. The feed showed that the MMM had pulled away and then after a short wait she started to move, she also changed direction too, it was a most fantastic take off.
My good wife driving and the kids in the back we gave chase like we seem to normally do now lol, London Lane was the first stop, in our usual spot however there was a broken down cyclist that I believe was needing the loo so we moved on swiftly and chose a different spot lol. I spotted her in the distance, approaching my position, could hear those engines perfectly, she sounded great. She turned round on herself, really smoothly it looked amazing. As she moved on we gave chase, however we needed to nip to Cardington road tescos for supplies first lol on getting out of the car at the shop we spotted her still looking great.
Supplies in hand we moved on, we decided to head toward Cardington village and shoot down Cardington road. At arriving in the village I Got out at the green and tried to take some video of her behind the reading room and old school house, not very good so we moved on lol.
iPhone in hand we moved on, live feed started just as we past the old school, as we past my old pond where I played as a kid in my dads field we spotted her, she was on her landing run in. Low and hard to miss lol, even though my fathers fence was inconsiderably built to block part of our view lol we moved on.
Parking up a little further down southill road
We watched her land, she came down perfectly to a stop and the flight was over.
Another good un :-)
T Monk
Anyhows mad dash home to get some grub and the live feed came through that she was up. The feed showed that the MMM had pulled away and then after a short wait she started to move, she also changed direction too, it was a most fantastic take off.
My good wife driving and the kids in the back we gave chase like we seem to normally do now lol, London Lane was the first stop, in our usual spot however there was a broken down cyclist that I believe was needing the loo so we moved on swiftly and chose a different spot lol. I spotted her in the distance, approaching my position, could hear those engines perfectly, she sounded great. She turned round on herself, really smoothly it looked amazing. As she moved on we gave chase, however we needed to nip to Cardington road tescos for supplies first lol on getting out of the car at the shop we spotted her still looking great.
Supplies in hand we moved on, we decided to head toward Cardington village and shoot down Cardington road. At arriving in the village I Got out at the green and tried to take some video of her behind the reading room and old school house, not very good so we moved on lol.
iPhone in hand we moved on, live feed started just as we past the old school, as we past my old pond where I played as a kid in my dads field we spotted her, she was on her landing run in. Low and hard to miss lol, even though my fathers fence was inconsiderably built to block part of our view lol we moved on.
Parking up a little further down southill road
We watched her land, she came down perfectly to a stop and the flight was over.
Another good un :-)
T Monk