PeacefulSwannie wrote:
icepick wrote:
Last time I tried this, Yuku logged me out.

Boeing is in no danger. They have fingers in more pies than we can count. Which should be ample proof that they believe that fuel efficient airships are the future. Sure, there will always be those who want fast, but that is rapidly becoming a niche market. I'm with you. They need to get these things in the air so everybody can take a ride. The Hindenburg was said to be the smoothest of all air rides. I would like to try that.
I am wondering.... do they fly high above storms?  And if they don't how would they go weathering a storm?   I am sure I read somewhere that the Hindenburg was sabotaged......


It's hard to say. They didn't have the materials necessary for an airship to fly above the storms back then. Yet the Hindenburg was still famous for that smooth ride. That's really something, considering they were down where the air pockets are. Now that we have the technology to allow airships to fly at high altitude, they should really be wonderful.

There is somebody who claims the Hindenburg was sabotaged. It is possible, considering the level of propaganda the Nazis were getting from it. They were already terribly unpopular at that time, so who knows?

But I will point this out. During the First World War, the Zeppelins were used to conduct the first London Blitz. The Brits tried to shoot them down, but found that they had to develop special ammunition to ignite the Hydrogen, despite its volatile nature. So apparently it's not that volatile. It is the most explosive gas known, but it still took some doing to set it off. So you do have that, for whatever it's worth. They can still use Hydrogen too, providing they crack how to do vacuum lift. Since they could use Hydrogen for fuel then, it would drastically increase the airships lift. They've been making a lot of headway on airships recently, so they're in the works. Lockheed plans to market theirs for passenger service. There's getting to be more and more information out there about these things, so you know they plan to utilize them. Just look at how much money Boeing and GE poured into those new engines ............ that's the key here, fuel costs. When the airplane manufacturer pours their money on top of that of the engine manufacturer? Yeah, I'm sure you can read the handwriting on the wall as good as I can.