www.rense.com/general40/ufohoax.htm
That's the only real worthy site I could find with a shitty picture.
But it flew around 200ft up and was spotted in the fading light by numerous pub dwellers and motorists. The flight plan changed due to some pilot errors and the wind fucking about, but generally it worked.
They had problems with the fact that the two balloon hemispheres looked too, well, balloon like. Originally it was going to have a rigid casing, but to save weight for the custom built American 5kW generator, they opted for a mylar blimp. After numerous recuttings at a Bristol based balloon workshop, they got it right, but the envelope weighed 36kg and not around 20. So the guy who went to a studio in Hollywood he worked at to specifically get this generator was told it couldn't be used. So they had to use loads of Ni-Cad batteries.
The German built ducted fans (eight of them around the carbon fibre ring to make the equator of the craft) were .6mm out and wouldn't fit in the damn housings. They had to wait a further two weeks to get the damn things remade.
Then when they flight tested it with a CAA guy to make sure it was air worthy, it kept trying to nose-up in the hangar. After a day, they gave up. They returned the next day and solved the problem with some ultra high-tech aerodynamic adjustment: a cardboard spoiler at the bottom of the craft.
And then they got around to flying the thing for real when the time was right, but the wind got too high at first and the flight plan was altered as the ship's power was limited now.
But it was hilarious seeing the thing fly across and those cars stop and put their hazard lights on. All the eye witnesses gave loads of varying accounts and teh video by one camcorder owner got shown on Sky, ITV and Australian and Mexican news channels.
Check E4 for repeats of it, may be on there.
