Posted on 05/24/2010 10:48:42 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Tylenol usually has wings?
Such a pity that thing never flew. Would have been impressive, even if it was a commie machine (they had some really...imaginative aeronautical engineers).
Now that’s a big suppository.
Getting commercial airship production up and running is expected to create hundreds of textile industry jobs in Alabama, according to a statement by E-Green Technologies. It might also lead to aerospace and aviation jobs in Central Florida and Northern California, where the company hopes to set up operational centers.
Textiles and Aerospace. QED.
The solution to the Deep Horizon oil spill has presented itself.
For an airship that is 235-ft long, that is not a bad payload. My question is how many cubic feet of lifting gas is in the lifting cells. The ratio of lifting gas to weight is the real determining factor of whether this puppy has some serious lfting capability.
The focus is about right, but shouldn't the picture be jiggling wildly?
New UFO pictures to come!
Those don't seem like particularly commercially viable statistics to me.
That's like 4 guys, some beer, and a few rifles to hunt deer from the air with.
The more I think about it, it might actually make a great hunting blind.
i l’ll bite. what the heck is it?
Must be French!
Irrelevant. My point is that there are a lot of materials/wealth invested in a vehicle with a very small payload. I'v guessing that this thing cost a lot more than a couple of semi's with a payload of 80,000 lb each.
A few years ago there was an announcement about a company in the SE that was suppose to build airships to move oversize cargo. I haven’t heard a peep about this since.
It was a tripod....
Does it come with batteries?
I think theyll be WAY above small-arms range.
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I sure hope so.
I’m sure this is being looked at by DHS as a border tool, surveillance and such.
Maybe strap a few HeLLfires on ‘em to sexy ‘em up and watch for Mexican Army helis making guns&dope runs..
Not enough engine and prop area to get that thing off the ground, not even ‘accidentally’ like Hughes did with the Spruce Goose.
And those semi’s do not have to lift any of their load off the ground. Also, an airship does not have lifting surfaces (wings) to provide lift. All lift in an airship comes down to the amount of mass that a volume of lifting gas can lift; the more cu-ft of gas, more lift.
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