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Thunderbird 2 flies again: The astonishing airship set to revolutionise haulage, tourism...
Daily Mail ^
| 1/4/13
| Damien Gayle
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 ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airship; haulage; tourism; warfare
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To: Nachum
Is it’s maiden voyage to Lakehurst, New Jersey?
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posted on
01/04/2013 1:08:17 PM PST
by
vikingd00d
(chown -R us ./base)
To: Sherman Logan
Don’t most radars need a hard surface to ping off of? That thing would be like trying to get a weapons lock on a cloud.
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posted on
01/04/2013 1:17:37 PM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(Sine ullo desiderio vive et ama.... Carpe diem.)
To: Nachum
THUNDER-BIRDS ARE GO!!!!
FAB!
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posted on
01/04/2013 1:18:41 PM PST
by
petro45acp
(More sheepdogs please...)
To: Nachum
Wasn’t some kid floating around inside that thing???
24
posted on
01/04/2013 1:20:52 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: kingu
Let the geniuses from Solyndra or one of those 0bummer craphole green energy co’s handle it; that’ll solve everything.
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posted on
01/04/2013 1:23:30 PM PST
by
Carriage Hill
("I meant to say maggot, but I have a lisp.")
To: mike_9958
“66 tons of cargo ?”
Yeah, 66 tons of smart bombs to drop on gun owners. :)
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posted on
01/04/2013 1:24:05 PM PST
by
dljordan
(Voltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
To: frithguild
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posted on
01/04/2013 1:26:20 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: frithguild
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posted on
01/04/2013 1:26:28 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: Sherman Logan
exactly what I thought as well. nice concept but impactical in real life.
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posted on
01/04/2013 1:31:21 PM PST
by
RitchieAprile
(the obstreperous gentleman..)
To: vikingd00d
Is it’s maiden voyage to Lakehurst, New Jersey?
To: Nachum
31
posted on
01/04/2013 1:34:29 PM PST
by
Slyfox
(The key to Marxism is medicine - V. Lenin)
To: Nachum
Lighter-than-air craft all have the same problem - directional controlling thrust.
If you took the computer controlled gyros of a Segway and mated them with enough directional thrust to counter wind, blow back, etc, then you would have smooth, reliable, lighter-than-air crafts.
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posted on
01/04/2013 1:38:25 PM PST
by
Crusher138
("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
To: LibLieSlayer
Hell...fly it anywhere and the reports will stream in...
33
posted on
01/04/2013 1:38:30 PM PST
by
pgkdan
( "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson)
To: pgkdan
That is what I was thinking Dan. :-)
LLS
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posted on
01/04/2013 1:49:55 PM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
To: Slyfox
35
posted on
01/04/2013 1:51:56 PM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Nachum
Just for a kick, they should fly the big sucker over
Devils Tower, Wyoming.....................Without informing the public :)
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posted on
01/04/2013 1:54:56 PM PST
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
To: ArrogantBustard
Does that mean that people will be allowed to smoke?
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posted on
01/04/2013 2:06:39 PM PST
by
Slyfox
(The key to Marxism is medicine - V. Lenin)
To: Slyfox
Probably not.
Not because of a fire hazard.
Because smoking is evil.
Smoking is more evil than child molesting, raping goats, or clubbing baby seals.
So ... even though a separate smoking section would be perfectly feasible and completely safe ...
THERE WILL BE NO SMOKING!!!!
Ve vill haff ORDER!!!
38
posted on
01/04/2013 2:15:12 PM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Nachum
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posted on
01/04/2013 2:33:53 PM PST
by
DManA
To: Nachum
cool.
Who has the contract to build the puppets to fly it?
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posted on
01/04/2013 3:16:58 PM PST
by
Galt2010
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