Aeroscraft Blimp: The Rebirth of the Airship

[Katashi_itto]

[marble falls]

1. Neat twist, ballast tanks, like subs.

[liberal N proud]

2. One very excited engineer

Hope his concept works.

[drynberg]

3. Hmmm...a more than 200 foot long slow moving airship in the air over Afghanistan...

What could go wrong?

[zeemike]

4. That was my first thought.

Better save that for peace no war.

[PeoViejo]

7. RPG Magnet

I hope they bring along a lot of Duct Tape.

[Plucketeer]

5. Cool concept

but I wanna know how the hell they propose holding it steady over raging infernos as he contends they can do. Fire bombers have one heck of a bumpy ride as they pass thru the rising heat - and so this plastic-skinned slug is gonna just hover there?

[TygrBright]

6. Firefighting? Srsly??

Not the way HE talks about it.

Granted, this thing may be more air-stable than a helo, but the column of heat over a major fire is not gonna make "accuracy" in load placement as easy as he makes it sound.

Very cool aircraft, though. I can think of lots of other applications.

skeptically,
Bright

[PeoViejo]

8. Escaping a Firestorm might be a problem

With winds inbound exceeding the max Airspeed, plus the decrease in Density Altitude from the heat.

[PADemD]

9. Close Captioning

Ever watch these videos with close captioning? The words do not match what is being said.

Does Youtube or the company that makes the video do the close captioning?