awesome: Lighter-than-air craft rise again

[zerozero]

now this is good
BBC - Future - Technology - Lighter-than-air craft rise again

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCakL25NCcM"]Aeroscraft Corporation - Who We Are - YouTube[/ame]

If you like the idea of cruising on a ship in laid-back luxury, but prefer the speed and convenience of air travel, there may soon be a solution. Drawing their inspiration from the airships of yesteryear, a new generation of airship-like vehicles could soon be making their way across our skies.

In a hangar outside Tustin in California, engineers are preparing one of the most radical designs for testing. The Aeroscraft, as it is known, is the brainchild of Igor Pasternak and has been made possible by advances in materials and computer control systems.

“We are resurrecting [the airship] with new composite fabric structures, that are stronger, lighter, more versatile” says Fred Edworthy, of Aeros, the company building the lighter-than-air vehicle.

The airship in the hangar is being built to test various key components of a design that could one day contain a hotel, casino or spa. However, the company believes one of its biggest markets could be transporting freight from hard-to-reach locations or, for example, carrying wind turbine blades. Currently blades are as large as they can be to be transported on a truck.

 

[Type Username Here]

Yea, but how can they make it a weapon?

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Can we get an aircraft with parachutes please.

 

[zerozero]

Yea, but how can they make it a weapon?

same as the last time round

(RIP to those brehs)

 

[zerozero]

Can we get an aircraft with parachutes please.

you know, a while ago I was reading a bunch of flight crash reports and black box transcripts

and some years later I also saw some documentaries about flight crashes

it seems that in most flights that crash the pilots are pretty confused until the very end, like there's not some long period in which they're like "fukk it we're going to die everybody eject".. it usually happens very quick

 

[Mr. Somebody]

you know, a while ago I was reading a bunch of flight crash reports and black box transcripts

and some years later I also saw some documentaries about flight crashes

it seems that in most flights that crash the pilots are pretty confused until the very end, like there's not some long period in which they're like "fukk it we're going to die everybody eject".. it usually happens very quick

Ejector seats then. You figure out how we're going to get the plane out of a nosedive while i float to the ground, friend. After you hit a particular altitude, it should be initiated, immediately.

 

[daze23]

it's obviously being held up by invisible pillars

 

[Serious]

let me know when we can travel at "186000 mph"

 

[daze23]

let me know when we can travel at "186000 mps"

*fixed*

 

[Serious]

good looks