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To: Olog-hai
It's a blimp. I see very little that is innovative about this. Very little that is akin to an airplane (where are the wings for lift?), very little akin to helicopters (where is the rotating airfoil for lift?). . . all I see is a flattened out blimp that may be somewhat shaped like a lifting body with rotatable nacelles. And at 300 feet, it's hardly the largest.

Hell, I wrote a paper in high school proposing this very thing back in the 1960s.

2 posted on 02/28/2014 11:26:21 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

What makes it different is that it reach anywhere on earth with a day, whereas a traditional blimp might take a week. That makes all the difference in the world if you’re delivering humanitarian supplies to places that suffered an immense natural disaster.


4 posted on 02/28/2014 11:36:04 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Swordmaker
I see very little that is innovative about this.

I remember reading here about an old Soviet transport plane design that was designed to fly very low. It used the "ground effect" to save on fuel.

I wonder if it will go anywhere. It seems like they'd have military use, at least. Check out this neat looking rendering:

I don't know how they'd do on heavy seas.

28 posted on 03/01/2014 4:36:46 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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