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The Flying Luxury Hotel - Aeroscraft Airship
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| November 22, 2006
| Joshua Tompkins
Posted on 11/22/2006 5:32:16 PM PST by red flanker
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I have seen the future and its name is Aerocraft Airships
To: red flanker
A blimp by any other name.......
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posted on
11/22/2006 5:33:46 PM PST
by
roaddog727
(BullS##t does not get bridges built)
To: red flanker
To: red flanker
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posted on
11/22/2006 5:35:54 PM PST
by
AmericanVictory
(Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
To: red flanker
400 ton payload traveling at 175 mph--could there be military transport applications for this?
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posted on
11/22/2006 5:36:28 PM PST
by
rottndog
(WOOF!!!)
To: red flanker
It looks like something out of a cartoon...
To: red flanker
Might be fun with a casino, although sporting clays are probably a non starter...
5.56mm
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posted on
11/22/2006 5:38:12 PM PST
by
M Kehoe
To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
11/22/2006 5:38:45 PM PST
by
rottndog
(WOOF!!!)
To: red flanker
I would definitely save up for a trip on this. Really cool!
Provided, it's affordable to the average mutley.
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posted on
11/22/2006 5:39:12 PM PST
by
mutley
To: red flanker
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posted on
11/22/2006 5:42:54 PM PST
by
knews_hound
(Sarcastically blogging since 2004.)
To: rottndog
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posted on
11/22/2006 5:43:30 PM PST
by
knews_hound
(Sarcastically blogging since 2004.)
To: red flanker
Won't everyone sound like Mickey Mouse when they talk? /sarc
To: rottndog
400 ton payload traveling at 175 mph--could there be military transport applications for this? Yep. Plus in situations where we have air supremacy, you could have one of those staying on station for extended time periods, dropping smart bombs on the heads of guerrillas below
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posted on
11/22/2006 5:47:33 PM PST
by
SauronOfMordor
(A planned society is most appealing to those with the arrogance to think they will be the planners)
To: knews_hound
Ya gotta be quick around here! ;0)
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posted on
11/22/2006 5:47:43 PM PST
by
rottndog
(WOOF!!!)
To: red flanker
Nothing new here. The U.S. Navy did something like this back in the 1930s. (The project ended in disaster.)
USS Macon Flying Aircraft Carrier of the 1930s.
The USS Macon carried 50 of these Sparrow Hawk fighter bombers. The aircraft were swung out, dropped and were recovered by the same mechanism.
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posted on
11/22/2006 5:58:24 PM PST
by
DJ Taylor
(Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
To: DJ Taylor
What? 50? Last I saw, it carried TWO.
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posted on
11/22/2006 6:02:11 PM PST
by
patton
(Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
To: patton
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posted on
11/22/2006 6:03:08 PM PST
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DJ Taylor
(Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
To: patton
"The Macon carried its own protection - five sparrow hawk fighter planes stored in the aircraft's belly." My bad. It was quite a few years ago that I read up on the Macon, and a zero crept into the figure somewhere along the line since then.
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posted on
11/22/2006 6:10:13 PM PST
by
DJ Taylor
(Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
To: DJ Taylor
No prob - Five, I can believe.
Want do you want to bet this thing is a huge jet-set hit?
And that it allows smoking?
Oh, the hugh manatee!
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posted on
11/22/2006 6:13:28 PM PST
by
patton
(Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
To: red flanker
That's the ultimate MILE HIGH CLUB!!!
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posted on
11/22/2006 6:16:31 PM PST
by
ken5050
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