Comments on: Offiziere.ch: Future Airships Could Haul Entire Combat Battalions http://www.warisboring.com/?p=4153&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=offiziere-ch-future-airships-could-haul-entire-combat-battalions We go to war so you don't have to. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:58:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mike Organ http://www.warisboring.com/?p=4153&cpage=1#comment-1279192 Mike Organ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:01:06 +0000 http://www.warisboring.com/?p=4153#comment-1279192 Sorry forgot to refute the energy efficiency. Yes using conventional engines it is fuel inefficient but using the option of electric engines or tethers means that the per mile cost is reduced to almost nothing in comparison with conventional transportation and not only that but the infrastructure costs will be peanuts in comparison to building a conventional road and we can even use the present road system to route airships around simply by building tracks along the highways that the airships can tether to, which can route electrical power to the airship or even act as tug ways as propulsion. The possibilities are limitless we only need the will and vision to realise the dream. Sorry forgot to refute the energy efficiency. Yes using conventional engines it is fuel inefficient but using the option of electric engines or tethers means that the per mile cost is reduced to almost nothing in comparison with conventional transportation and not only that but the infrastructure costs will be peanuts in comparison to building a conventional road and we can even use the present road system to route airships around simply by building tracks along the highways that the airships can tether to, which can route electrical power to the airship or even act as tug ways as propulsion. The possibilities are limitless we only need the will and vision to realise the dream.

]]> By: Mike Organ http://www.warisboring.com/?p=4153&cpage=1#comment-1279190 Mike Organ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:50:29 +0000 http://www.warisboring.com/?p=4153#comment-1279190 This is a great idea but I fear that the disasters of the 1920 and 1930 must be first addressed to assure the Public that the future airship will be safe and efficient. We are a society that is obsessed with speed and convenience and this is getting in the way of the one very important fact that there is a place for a slower more efficient transportation method that the airship can fill. Being that the airship is a low altitude low energy option more public money should be available to develop this exciting futuristic mode of transport so please keep the airship in the forefront of technology where it belongs. I hope that one day the option of taking an airship is available both for moving people and goods not only for the efficiency it offers but the obvious beauty of hundreds of these amazing vehicles floating serenely above us and not a dirty ugly road in sight. This is a great idea but I fear that the disasters of the 1920 and 1930 must be first addressed to assure the Public that the future airship will be safe and efficient.

We are a society that is obsessed with speed and convenience and this is getting in the way of the one very important fact that there is a place for a slower more efficient transportation method that the airship can fill.

Being that the airship is a low altitude low energy option more public money should be available to develop this exciting futuristic mode of transport so please keep the airship in the forefront of technology where it belongs.

I hope that one day the option of taking an airship is available both for moving people and goods not only for the efficiency it offers but the obvious beauty of hundreds of these amazing vehicles floating serenely above us and not a dirty ugly road in sight.

]]> By: War Is Boring: Dirigible Crash Site Marked Historic http://www.warisboring.com/?p=4153&cpage=1#comment-1279137 War Is Boring: Dirigible Crash Site Marked Historic Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:21:05 +0000 http://www.warisboring.com/?p=4153#comment-1279137 [...] comes at a time when the U.S. military — the Navy, especially — is trying to get back into the airship business in a big [...] [...] comes at a time when the U.S. military — the Navy, especially — is trying to get back into the airship business in a big [...]

]]> By: aerocrat http://www.warisboring.com/?p=4153&cpage=1#comment-1265136 aerocrat Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:56:11 +0000 http://www.warisboring.com/?p=4153#comment-1265136 Whole ScyCat program is hanged. This project by Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) company where the Ideas Generator was Roger Munk is at a crossroads. General Designer for the airship serie ScyCat (on HAV base) died and today involved in this project orders has no assurance that one will be adequately implemented. Obituary of Roger, see <a href="http://aerocrat.livejournal.com/95175.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>! Whole ScyCat program is hanged. This project by
Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) company where the Ideas Generator was Roger Munk is at a crossroads. General Designer for the airship serie ScyCat (on HAV base) died and today involved in this project orders has no assurance that one will be adequately implemented. Obituary of Roger, see here!

]]> By: Joe Bloggs http://www.warisboring.com/?p=4153&cpage=1#comment-1264057 Joe Bloggs Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:37:51 +0000 http://www.warisboring.com/?p=4153#comment-1264057 Hi there, Another point I missed was that airships are the worst performers in terms of fuel efficiency measured in per passenger mile of almost any type of air transport but they are by far the best if measured in terms of fuel per hours endurance. That is why airships like the Skyship 600L are used by the military. The Zeppelin nt is heavier and hence a larger volume design that simply lifts the same payload as a 13 passenger seat Skyship but uses much more fuel for it 3 engines and much more helium for its more complex envelope than a normal blimp and costs twice as much to buy. Another reason the military like the Skyship 600 is that the gondola is made of Kevlar and more bullet proof than the thin skinned carbon fiber used for the Zeppelin. I can also assure you that the US Navy is not mulling the return of airships. They are however using blimps on occasions and have shown particular interest in the HAV Skycat program and even flew a Sentinel 1000 in the past which is a Skyship not a Zeppelin. Regards JB. (www.airshipblimp.com) Hi there,
Another point I missed was that airships are the worst performers in terms of fuel efficiency measured in per passenger mile of almost any type of air transport but they are by far the best if measured in terms of fuel per hours endurance. That is why airships like the Skyship 600L are used by the military. The Zeppelin nt is heavier and hence a larger volume design that simply lifts the same payload as a 13 passenger seat Skyship but uses much more fuel for it 3 engines and much more helium for its more complex envelope than a normal blimp and costs twice as much to buy. Another reason the military like the Skyship 600 is that the gondola is made of Kevlar and more bullet proof than the thin skinned carbon fiber used for the Zeppelin.
I can also assure you that the US Navy is not mulling the return of airships. They are however using blimps on occasions and have shown particular interest in the HAV Skycat program and even flew a Sentinel 1000 in the past which is a Skyship not a Zeppelin.
Regards
JB. (www.airshipblimp.com)

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