Posted on 01/04/2013 12:38:01 PM PST by Nachum
A radical new kind of airship funded by the US military is about to make its first test flight - and it looks uncannily like the Thunderbird 2 craft from the classic TV show.
The Aeroscraft airship will carry three times as much as the biggest military cargo planes over thousands of miles, use a third of the fuel, and it doesn't even need a landing strip.
It could also have major implications for cargo haulage, and almost everything now laboriously transported across the planet's surface by boat, train and lorry could within years be carried through the skies, its makers claim.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
That's about one Abrams tank with a few accessories, some fuel and a crew...
Lead Zeppelin.
I’ve been reading stories about the imminent age of lighter than air cargo airships for 30 years.
“In a disaster of unexpected dimensions, a pre-teen kid with a pellet gun shot a heavy-lift military blimp out of the sky, destroying a multimillion dollar craft and its millions in cargo.”
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Thanks Nachum.
Balloons
Helium, like hydrogen, is lighter than air but unlike hydrogen it is inert, so there is little risk of an explosion.
What a bunch of idiots!
I thought there was a shortage of helium.
I don’t know about a shortage but I do know there is zero risk of an explosion when working with helium.
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