Posted on 02/28/2014 11:18:27 PM PST by Olog-hai
The world’s largest aircraft, which can stay airborne for up to three weeks and will be vital in delivering several tonnes of humanitarian aid as well as transporting heavy freight across the world, has been unveiled.
The 300-ft (91-m) ship is part plane, airship and helicopter, and there are plans to eventually use it to transport hundreds of tonnes of freight across difficult terrain throughout the world as well as deliver aid to risky areas.
It is environmentally friendly, being part airship filled with inert helium, and will also be used for surveillance and communications. Developers hope to make more of the “green vehicles”, which they hope to make capable of taking off from land, water, desert, ice and fields. …
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Something else. Sitting duck s**t.
And less than 1/10th the explosive power.
The article states that the max speed is "maybe 100 mph".
That's not even coast-to-coast in a day.
And haven't fancy blimps been on at least one Popular Science magazine cover a year for the past 30 years?
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