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Old 08-04-2007, 19:38 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Parihaka View Post
And I'd rather spend a week travelling in one of those across the Pacific than 12 hours in a jet, as long as it had sleeping compartments and a lounge.
That makes me think about luxury such as glass bottoms for sightseeing, bungee jumping (when soaring on an altitude of 2-3 km) and the like. I'd love making an airship cruise. It could descend for Red Sea diving, safari and fly above the Mt. Everest.

I see a lot of possibilities in airships for use as superheavy airlift, sky cranes (transport entire radio transmission masts (30 m height or more) into the desert instead of assembling them on place) and transoceanic luxury transport. I wonder what the rendability would be.
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