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  1. 07-21-2009, 01:12 AM #1
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    Default Dirigibles...

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    Wow! Nobody out of 30 views likes blimps.

    When I was a young boy, we would drive past the platform right outside Redondo Beach nearly everyday. Sometimes the blimp would be horizontal and other times nose to the ground and tail straight up in the air! As a little boy I was in awe. As a grown man I still enjoy seeing them in the sky on occasion, and always enjoy descriptions of dirigibles of old!
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    Here is a little history:YouTube - Hindenburg disaster
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    And now the graf zeppelin:YouTube - The Graf Zeppelin
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    God I would love to take a trip on one of these big air ships!
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    Mark, I gotta reply. Nothing worse than seeing a man reduced to having a conversation with himself!

    Airships are great. There's something very majestic about them. Some years ago there was talk of bringing them back for commercial use -- both passenger as well as cargo -- they would have been a less environmentally damaging method of travel I assume.

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    From an uneducated point of view, is it even viable to have such luxuries on a transport like this ?
    Surely the weight of it all would counteract the lighter than air system.

    Also, how do you propel these things. Does it use fuel, a turbine ?


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    Mark, I gotta reply. Nothing worse than seeing a man reduced to having a conversation with himself!

    Airships are great. There's something very majestic about them. Some years ago there was talk of bringing them back for commercial use -- both passenger as well as cargo -- they would have been a less environmentally damaging method of travel I assume.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Casulo View Post
    From an uneducated point of view, is it even viable to have such luxuries on a transport like this ?
    Surely the weight of it all would counteract the lighter than air system.

    Also, how do you propel these things. Does it use fuel, a turbine ?
    No idea! I guess anything is feasible as long as you make a big enough balloon with enough helium in it?

    In one of the links I posted there a Youtube video of an actual test flight by a Lockheed Martin airship. It looks pretty big, and even does take off and landing like a plane.
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    I'm with you on the dirigibles. Love 'em. Wish we still had giant ones to fly around in.
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    I don't think I have ever seen one in the air, the realtively short history is facinating though.
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