P-791 Hybrid Airship

Torvald Von Mansee · 04-27-10, 10:10 AM

http://www.military-heat.com/91/p791...rship-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!!

AVGWarhawk · 04-27-10, 10:14 AM

Did not look stable to me.

Torvald Von Mansee · 04-27-10, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Did not look stable to me.

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!!!

HunterICX · 04-27-10, 10:22 AM

Airships rule, period

HunterICX

Raptor1 · 04-27-10, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by HunterICX

Airships rule, period

HunterICX

Definitely.

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

Oberon · 04-27-10, 11:57 AM

I'd so become an airship pirate...

A bad one probably, but still...

Weiss Pinguin · 04-27-10, 12:36 PM

I WANT ONE

ajrimmer42 · 04-27-10, 02:29 PM

Gimme one of these anyday!

Steampunk ftw!

SteamWake · 04-27-10, 02:33 PM

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

and they overcame these issues how??

longam · 04-27-10, 04:35 PM

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

Task Force · 04-27-10, 05:06 PM

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

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

Torvald Von Mansee · 04-28-10, 03:16 AM

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Originally Posted by SteamWake

and they overcame these issues how??

They didn't.

krashkart · 04-28-10, 06:06 AM

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

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

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Originally Posted by From 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.

papa_smurf · 04-28-10, 07:35 AM

Wonder if this kill off heavy lift helicopters

Torvald Von Mansee · 04-28-10, 07:51 AM

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Wonder if this kill off heavy lift helicopters

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.

04-27-10, 10:10 AM	#1
Torvald Von Mansee Sea Lord Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: CA4528 Posts: 1,693 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	P-791 Hybrid Airship http://www.military-heat.com/91/p791...rship-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!! __________________ "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you" - Leon Trotsky

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AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,253 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Did not look stable to me. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

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HunterICX Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2006 Location: Malaga, España Posts: 10,750 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Airships rule, period HunterICX __________________

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longam Admiral Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 2,014 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	Airships are cool, but the statement 'when pigs fly' comes to mind when watching the video.

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