Airlander rollout

[red750]

World’s largest plane leaves the hangar for the first time

[Marty_d]

You can see where the nickname comes from!

 

 

[red750]

Has a nose like a Kardashian's booty.

 

 

[onetrack]

It'll never work, I tell ya! Look at what happened to all them Zeppelin thingys!

 

By the way - whatever happened to Bondy's airship?? I can remember when I was living on my gold mine about 60kms N of Norseman in the mid-1980's, and they drove it from Sydney to Perth.

 

They passed right over my minesite (which is right alongside the Coolgardie-Norseman Rd) in the middle of the day, at a pretty modest height - I would estimate at maybe only 1000 feet.

 

It was quite an impressive sight. It appeared to me their navigation merely involved following the highway.

 

EDIT - Big website (link below) on the airships (with a general slant towards British ones) - but interesting, the site is called "The Airship Heritage Trust" - sort of like they're talking about hugely historic items that need saving.

 

Yet they claim that "many are still operating today". Not sure where they're operating, because they sure don't make the news any more.

 

Airshipsonline : Airships : SkyShip 600

 

 

[Marty_d]

I have a soft spot for airships - especially ones resembling Kim Kardashian's hindquarters.

 

My only comment would be - why isn't the entire top of it coated with solar PV? You can imagine the amount of power you could generate above cloud level, with something of that area.

 

 

[spacesailor]

We have an impressive one flying over Sydney, weather permitting,

 

The old airships were denied Helium (from the USA) & had to use very flammable Hydrogen.

 

spacesailor

 

 

[pmccarthy]

It'll never work, I tell ya! Look at what happened to all them Zeppelin thingys! By the way - whatever happened to Bondy's airship?? I can remember when I was living on my gold mine about 60kms N of Norseman in the mid-1980's, and they drove it from Sydney to Perth.

 

They passed right over my minesite (which is right alongside the Coolgardie-Norseman Rd) in the middle of the day, at a pretty modest height - I would estimate at maybe only 1000 feet.

 

It was quite an impressive sight. It appeared to me their navigation merely involved following the highway.

 

EDIT - Big website (link below) on the airships (with a general slant towards British ones) - but interesting, the site is called "The Airship Heritage Trust" - sort of like they're talking about hugely historic items that need saving.

 

Yet they claim that "many are still operating today". Not sure where they're operating, because they sure don't make the news any more.

 

Airshipsonline : Airships : SkyShip 600

When I worked on the Hidden Valley project in PNG in the 1980s there was serious discussion of using airships to service the mine.