"A spaceship?"
Travel anywhere in the world in 15 days...man, that this is hauling you-know-what!
Something tells me that the military is planning ops in the post-satellite era. I have a bad feeling about what may soon go down up in space.
Won’t OBozo’s defense speding cuts nip this in the bud?
65,000 feet. Isn’t that within range of SAM’s? How long do they think it would survive?
Won’t OBozo’s defense spending cuts nip this in the bud?
I think Popular Science Magazine features this idea about once every three years.
Maybe it will fly this time ;-)
there’s got to be plenty of ways to shoot something like this down, but of course if you’re spying on the US, chances are we won’t own any of of ‘em!
Dirigibles..Zepplins..making a comeback?
You know..I sometimes thought that particular concept of aviation got a bad rap after the Hindenberg...weren’t there a few shows on Discovery and elsewhere that put the blame on the German airship’s aluminized paint..rather than the hydrogen..for its spectacular & catastrophic failure?
With the possibility of higher fuel costs in the near future..maybe lighter than airships will be making a big comeback down the road in a few decades.....
What is revolutionary is that one of these ideas is dusted off and is recycled again every 5 or so years. The blimp is always touted as the way to solve the latest problem or provide a new solution that something else cheaper can do anyway.
But not before several million is spent for the “feasibility” study w/ 1/6th scale model.
Wouldn’t it be mighty easy to shoot down something this big?
sounds like the s.h.i.e.l.d. hover carrier
Sounds like the old Aerostat program.
Skyhook balloons were balloons developed by Otto C. Winzen and used by the United States Navy Office of Naval Research in the late 1940s and in the 1950s for atmospheric research, especially for constant-level meteorological observations at very high altitudes. Instruments like the Cherenkov detector were first used on skyhook balloons.
In the late 1940s, Project Skyhook balloons provided a stable vehicle for long duration observations at altitudes in excess of 100,000 feet. Balloons, long used for collecting meteorological data, now offered the opportunity of collecting highly specialized information and photographs.
Some people believe that the Roswell Incident was the crash of a Skyhook Balloon which was launched from a facility in Texas and circled the globe with a camera which would photograph the bad guys!
After this program the U2 and SR71 took over!
eye in the sky
Uh,, for 400 million, can they make it stealth too? I wonder what kind of defense systems it will use?
They should use hydrogen to get it aloft. They’ll need MUCH less of it than they will helium.
And what could possibly go wrong?
;^)
They should name them the Kennedy Class blimps.
What is the saying... What was old is new again.
Right?