P-791 Hybrid Airship

[Torvald Von Mansee]

http://www.military-heat.com/91/p791-hybrid-airship-project/

If I were FABULOUSLY rich, I'd have a personal airship, and stay in the air most of the time. My life would be a Miyazaki movie!! :D

[AVGWarhawk]

Did not look stable to me. :hmmm:

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Did not look stable to me. :hmmm:

Heheheh...yeah!! I noticed that, too. It would probably perform differently if it were carrying a full fuel/freight load, not being quite such a rootless balloon.

On the bright side, it probably wouldn't need quite such a long runway for delivering freight. I suspect that is somewhere in the article, which I didn't actually read. I just skipped to the movie!!! :D

[HunterICX]

Airships rule, period :rock:

HunterICX

[Raptor1]

Airships rule, period :rock:

HunterICX

Definitely.

Really wish someone would start building old-style passenger Zeppelins again...

[Oberon]

I'd so become an airship pirate...

A bad one probably, but still...

[Weiss Pinguin]

I WANT ONE :o

[ajrimmer42]

Gimme one of these anyday!

http://www.forge22.com/projects/images/airship-sketch-01.jpg

Steampunk ftw!

[SteamWake]

Another reason for their decline is the delicate ground handling and relatively high vulnerability to meteorological conditions


and they overcame these issues how??

[longam]

Airships are cool, but the statement 'when pigs fly' comes to mind when watching the video.

[Task Force]

That things cool... wounder how many people will mistake them for UFOs.:har:

I was drivin my car one night, and looked up and saw this large white ship, it had lights and everything!

[Torvald Von Mansee]

and they overcame these issues how??

They didn't. :cry:

[krashkart]

Interesting, innovative idea. Wonder how well it would hold up in Antarctica?




On the side, I lol'd when I read through the comments:


gouthro Do you really buy… I mean do you think the American people in its totality is stupid enough to believe this cover story. This is a HAARP/terror weapon/encroach on civil liberty WEAPON OF WAR against the American citizen. This is a hard asset of Domestic Terror of the NEW WORLD ORDER.

No matter the comment or excuse there is no other use for such a device but prolonged lingering over the battlefield.


:har:

[papa_smurf]

Wonder if this kill off heavy lift helicopters:hmmm:

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Wonder if this kill off heavy lift helicopters:hmmm:

I don't think so. Most locations where a heavy load would need to be carried could still be serviced by a combo of ship/train/chopper.

Now, the military might very well have a need to carry a heavy load 12K NM and drop it on a mountaintop, but not most civilian entities.

[LiveGoat]

Yep, once a link to infowars is sighted hilarity is sure to follow. :DL



Interesting, innovative idea. Wonder how well it would hold up in Antarctica?




On the side, I lol'd when I read through the comments:



:har: