Comments on: The Airship and Futurism: Utopian Visions of the Airship

By: W L

W L — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:30:24 +0000

In reply to Melon.

This https://web.archive.org/web/20151102020815/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/travel/89253/halo-the-330-million-airship-of-the-future.html does

By: Neal Sausen

Neal Sausen — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 06:25:06 +0000

An article on the ill-fated AERION 3 Would be interesting to read about

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By: Melon

Melon — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 04:54:32 +0000

In reply to Dagmara Lizlovs. The link didn't work

By: RJPugh

RJPugh — Tue, 17 May 2016 13:07:29 +0000

This is wonderful stuff! Iâ€™ve always liked airships. I even flew on one of the Good Year blimps as a kid! (No joke! I really did!) Some of these designs are impossibly fanciful, but still fun to think about.

The giant airship has a lot of baggage in the collective mind, though. The laws of physics are not in their favor. The lifting ratio of helium, or even hydrogen, is an insurmountable obstacle. I mean, if you want to transport 200+ passengers, or several hundred tons of cargo, your lifting mass (gas bag) needs to be impossibly large. Such a bag will require an equally large frame to contain it, but that frame will also need to be lifted. Sufficient gas will be needed to handle not just the payload, but the frame of the ship itself. After a while, diminishing returns will push you against a wall, and you will find that loads beyond a certain size are impossible. The designers of R-101 found that out in spades. Granted, technology has changed sufficiently that new materials are available. These light, strong building materials may make it possible for giant airships to be more practical. But the laws of physics canâ€™t be held off forever.

Smaller dirigibles, however, have better prospects. They have proven their worth in a variety of specialized applications, like communication, search and rescue, weather research, ecological research, tourism, and so on. And of course they provide awesome coverage of major sporting events! Iâ€™m not suggesting that giant airships have no future, only that their smaller brethren have a brighter one.

By: Dagmara Lizlovs

Dagmara Lizlovs — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 00:37:13 +0000

I just came across this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/travel/89253/halo-the-330-million-airship-of-the-future.html

Another dream. Hope it will fly.

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:44:56 +0000

I remember that the Zeppelin Museum edited a catalog a decade ago or so for an exhibit on airships that never flew. This is a nice complement to some of what they covered!

By: Dan Grossman

Dan Grossman — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 18:14:47 +0000

In reply to David Bramer. The information on this site is based mostly on primary research so the website, itself, is the source. Most of the images are scanned from my personal collection of research material, supplemented with images I have obtained from various archives or museums around the world.

By: David Bramer

David Bramer — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 18:04:06 +0000

In reply to Sam. I believe Dan (The writer/creator of this site) studied Airships himself, so this isn't really a website for information organized from the internet, more like a Airship Encyclopedia. It does say on his twitter page that he is an airship historian.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 21:35:48 +0000

Hi, I’m doing a paper for school on zeppelins and airships in pop culture. Could I possibly have the links to your sources for some of these?