To: NormsRevenge
"2,000 pounds"
Is this correct? It doesn't seem like much.
To: 1776 Reborn
Anyone want to give me odds this project is supported by one, possible multiple, earmarks?
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.
25 posted on
05/24/2010 11:01:17 AM PDT by
awestk
(gimmeh.)
To: 1776 Reborn
If it has a crew of eight, it functionally has no payload. Heck, a Ford F-350 can carry 2,000 lbs.
63 posted on
05/24/2010 11:40:32 AM PDT by
Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
To: 1776 Reborn
2000 lbs of high-bandwidth link electronics over that much surface area at 80K ft is a money making proposition. Consider the size and cost of communications satellites, and how much they earn. A couple of hundred pounds of electronics way up high is a moneymaker.
/johnny
To: 1776 Reborn
I was going to say something sarcastic too, but if this thing can haul it up to 20,000 feet and hang around for days on end without much fuel, well, maybe there is a use for it.
82 posted on
05/24/2010 2:26:12 PM PDT by
Tribune7
(It is immoral to claim the tea parties to be racist)
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