[Jonty30]

What makes it different is that it reach anywhere on earth with a day, whereas a traditional blimp might take a week. That makes all the difference in the world if you’re delivering humanitarian supplies to places that suffered an immense natural disaster.

[cpdiii]

What makes it different is that it reach anywhere on earth with a day, whereas a traditional blimp might take a week. That makes all the difference in the world if you’re delivering humanitarian supplies to places that suffered an immense natural disaster.

500 miles an hour, NO NO NO. If it can please let me invest, it can not thus I will not invest. In reality there is a place for lighter than air heavy lift but they will be slow aircraft.

[driftdiver]

Unless they have a head wind.

[Swordmaker]

What makes it different is that it reach anywhere on earth with a day, whereas a traditional blimp might take a week. That makes all the difference in the world if you’re delivering humanitarian supplies to places that suffered an immense natural disaster.

Uh, Jonty30, can we check your math?

“It can reach about 100mph and stay airborne for about three-and-a-half days.”

That's 2400 miles a day, approximately up to five days maximum—with good winds—to reach anywhere in the world. . . But you gotta go to ground every three and a half to refuel. Call it six. Nothing new here. Everything old is new again.

Add a head wind and with that frontal area to say nothing of drag??? You'd be lucky to make 30MPH.

[Swordmaker]

Say, the first line of the article says it can stay aloft for three weeks. . . but the it says three and a half days??? Who are they kidding??? Somebody’s making things up! I smell a hoax!

This has all the earmarks of that “announced” Boeing 797 that seated 1200 passengers hoax that looked like a flying wing.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

hat makes it different is that it reach anywhere on earth with a day

At 100 mph, it can travel 2400 miles in 24 hours. Pretty impressive.

But what about helium supplies? I thought we were running out?

[okie01]

What makes it different is that it reach anywhere on earth with a day, whereas a traditional blimp might take a week.

The article states that the max speed is "maybe 100 mph".

That's not even coast-to-coast in a day.