The pioneering Brits who are heralding the dawn,

[Penguin]

Originally Posted by Vendor

What, me spending so "much" job on posting it here 23, viewer.och not a sound...

Vendor, no problem, den jävla Pingvinen är här nu!


I think they do look like some sexy ships, but I am very sceptic that this enterprise will be a success.
The Germans tried it 10 years ago with the Cargolifter, a ship that should be used mainly for the transport of freight (who would have guessed by the name?) They filed for bankrupcy 2,3 years after their foundation and their construction plans were bought by the Zeppelin company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter
We still have Zeppelin manufacture airships, but they sold the huge amount of 4 zeppelins in the past 14 years...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin_NT

The main reasons why the Cargolifter project failed, are still existent today: the ships are extremly vunurable to weather conditions, the payload is small and the speed is relative slow. The only thing that changed over the past years is a skyrocketing of energy/raw material prices, so that would be the only niche were I would see a use for them: the exploration of inaccessible areas in the search for raw materials.

I love those big-ass airships however and would love them to have a renaissance, so good luck for the next effort to bring them back!

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Penguin

Vendor, no problem, den jävla Pingvinen är här nu!


I think they do look like some sexy ships, but I am very sceptic that this enterprise will be a success.
The Germans tried it 10 years ago with the Cargolifter, a ship that should be used mainly for the transport of freight (who would have guessed by the name?) They filed for bankrupcy 2,3 years after their foundation and their construction plans were bought by the Zeppelin company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter
We still have Zeppelin manufacture airships, but they sold the huge amount of 4 zeppelins in the past 14 years...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin_NT

The main reasons why the Cargolifter project failed, are still existent today: the ships are extremly vunurable to weather conditions, the payload is small and the speed is relative slow. The only thing that changed over the past years is a skyrocketing of energy/raw material prices, so that would be the only niche were I would see a use for them: the exploration of inaccessible areas in the search for raw materials.

I love those big-ass airships however and would love them to have a renaissance, so good luck for the next effort to bring them back!

I'm glad for it, thanks, but you are not a "damn" Penguin and will never become one!

[HunterICX]

You'll want to become a pirate

HunterICX

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

You'll want to become a pirate

HunterICX

Cool,Crimson Skies!

[TorpX]

I wonder how long it will be before Somali pirates hijack one and hold it for ransom?

[Freiwillige]

Im just thinking of the next blockbuster movie theme.

SKYTANIC! Well have to have some super disaster on its maiden voyage how about frozen clouds, yea yea well call them skyburgs. Skyburg ahead captian! Has a ring to it, lets go with it. Then well have it floating across the north Atlantic and other airships will send out Skyburg warnings but the captain wont heed the warnings cause his airship is un uninflatable. Next well have the front half deflate slowly after bumping a Skyburg and the weight will tear the ship into half and the back half will then sink into the sky! And the life rafts can be.....

Yes I can make millions

I would kill to ride on a Zeppelin.

[UnderseaLcpl]

This will never work. I remember reading about a few pioneering airship entrepeneurs and firms almost a decade ago in Popular Science or somesuch. While airships do have some advantages in the area of heavy VTOL capability, there is absolutely no reason to ever establish any kind of anything in an area that couldn't be better served by rail or sea transport. It's just too inefficient, even by very slow, very fuel-efficient, very windblown, very vulnerable, very weak, very insurance-heavy airship.

[Gerald]

Today's technology is different, more secure.

[TorpX]

Originally Posted by Freiwillige

Im just thinking of the next blockbuster movie theme.

SKYTANIC! Well have to have some super disaster on its maiden voyage how about frozen clouds, yea yea well call them skyburgs. Skyburg ahead captian! Has a ring to it, lets go with it. Then well have it floating across the north Atlantic and other airships will send out Skyburg warnings but the captain wont heed the warnings cause his airship is un uninflatable. Next well have the front half deflate slowly after bumping a Skyburg and the weight will tear the ship into half and the back half will then sink into the sky! And the life rafts can be.....

Yes I can make millions

That's the ticket.
All you need is a love triangle and a hot Hollywood actress.