Hot Air Balloon Gets Tangled in Power Lines; Some Areas Lose Power
Update: 7 Sept.2016–Clyde Police Chief Bruce Gower said there will be no charges from Clyde Police,but the Federal Aviation Administration may investigate the crash. CLYDE, Ohio – A hot air balloon hit power lines after taking off from Limerick Park, on Monday evening. The mishap knocked out electricity and some traffic lights in Clyde for few hours, […]
Largest Aircraft Crash Lands—Slowly and Gently
Just one week after its historic first test flight, the hybrid airship Airlander 10 is in the news again, for crash landing on its second test flight. Airlander 10 attempts to land on second test flight. Screenshot by author from SciNews video After a 100-minute flight, the 302-foot long aircraft slowly nosedived, landing on its […]
Hot-Air Balloon Makes Emergency Landing on Lake
British Columbia, Canada -The pilot of a hot-air balloon had to make an emergency landing on Okanagan lake when his balloon was blown over toward the lake, by a sudden change in wind direction, despite attempts to catch the wind current toward land; however, the balloon also ran out of fuel, and he was forced to […]
Helium-filled Airship, the Largest Aircraft, Makes Historic First Flight
17Aug.2016,Bedfordshire,UK—The world’s largest and futuristic aircraft, as tall as a nine-story building and almost the length and breadth of a football field, rose slowly but majestically over the Cardington airfield in central England at 7:40 p.m. Airlander10 during take off for first flight from Cardington Airfield, Bedfordshire, UK, 17 August 2016; Credit: Hybrid Air Vehicles […]
Return of the Airship
Airlander10, the Hybrid Airship-Fin Being Attached; Credit: Hybrid Air Vehicles In few fiery seconds, the era of the passenger airship had come to an end when the Hindenburg burst into flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey on 6th May 1937. The leviathan airship, inflated with flammable hydrogen, had taken off from Frankfurt, Germany and was on […]
16 People Die in Second-Deadliest Hot-Air Balloon Crash
LOCKHART, TEXAS –A hot-air balloon carrying 16 people struck power lines and crashed in a pasture near Lockhart, in central Texas, around 7:40 a.m. local time (8:40 a.m. ET), according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). A witness who lives near the site said she heard a loud pop and noticed a fireball. NTSB officials […]
Russian Adventurer Sets New Round-the-World Balloon Flight Record
Fedor Konyukhov takes off in a Roziere balloon on 12th July 2016 Fedor Konyukhov in his gondola on 28th June 2016–few days before his world-record flight. After flying the Rozière hot-air balloon, solo and nonstop around the world, for more than 11 days and over a distance of 20,502 miles (32,996 kilometers), Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov landed […]
Lockheed Martin Signs Contract to Sell 12 Airships at $480 Million
Lockheed Martin’s Hybrid Airship, called LMH1, is designed to carry cargo and personnel over long distances. The Airship enters the market in 2018. Credit: Lockheed Martin. Measuring 300 feet long and almost 80 feet high, the football stadium-sized airship is filled with helium, which is a nonflammable gas. It can carry 47,000 pounds of cargo […]
Fedor Konyukhov Prepares to Fly Solo and Non-stop around the World in a Balloon
test Fedor Konyukhov Seeks to Set a New Round-the-World Balloon Record in 2016. Credit: Fedor Konyukhov Expedition Center Russian explorer Fedor Konyukhov plans to fly solo and nonstop around the world in a balloon, in June 2016. Konyukhov hopes to break the record set by American adventurer Steve Fossett in 2002 who completed his round-the-world […]
Russian Aeronauts Set New Hot-Air Balloon Record
Russian balloonists Fedor Konyukhov and Ivan Menyaylo set a new record in hot air ballooning on 25th January 2016. The intrepid aeronauts flew for 32 hours and 20 minutes in Russia. Their flight broke the 1993 world record set by Dr. William “Bill” Bussey, who had flown in a hot air balloon for 29 hours […]
