Posted on 01/05/2013 10:39:18 AM PST by iowamark
A massive cargo-carrying airship has taken shape inside one of the 17-story wooden blimp hangars at the former military base in Tustin.
According to aircraft maker Worldwide Aeros Corp., construction is complete on a 36,000-pound blimp-like aircraft designed for the military to carry tons of cargo to remote areas around the world.
The Montebello company hopes to have a first flight in the coming months and to demonstrate cargo-carrying capability shortly thereafter...
The Aeroscraft is a zeppelin with a 230-foot rigid skeleton made of aluminum and carbon fiber. It's a new type of hybrid aircraft that combines airplane and airship technologies and doesn't need a long runway to take off or land because it has piston engines that allow it to move vertically and a new high-tech buoyancy control system...
"This will land in Africa, Afghanistan," Pasternak told The Times in September, "a Wal-Mart parking lot -- wherever."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
So so many parallels between now and the years preceeding WWII......you had the Zepplins of 1930s Germany, attempts at gun grabbing, pandering to the poor with blaming of certain groups (it was Jews, now old white men), Weimar Scrip and a whole new monetary system based on unending serial taxation, total debasement and corruption of the legal system......there are others .....
They might as well paint a Swastika on it (or the equivalent - The Obama Sunrise).
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