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Why do people keep building these things?

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John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc 

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It's the aeronautical 555, perfectly fitted to an ever-shrinking niche.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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It is quite an interesting concept if it can be made to work. The lift provided mostly by the displacement. Cardington was designed for building airships back in the day when they were commonplace.

I suspect small scale smart dirigibles will at some point become the method of choice for broadband/mobile phone coverage of remote areas.

They are always prone to wind conditions when landing and taking off.

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The surface area to power ratio is absurd. They stick way above the surface, too, so expose themselves to more wind than an airplane sitting on the ground.

A tethered unmanned airship might be OK as an antenna, but they don't seem to be working either.

But people keep trying.

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I can't think of much use for them, these days. People use them as inspiration for songwriting, though. Some kind of symbol of a better world that never came to be...

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Also airships are clearly the most communist flying vehicle one can work on.

Why not buy a nice Sikorsky? Choppers are the aircraft of choice for any free society. Not that many seats, fuel-hungry, really noisy so your inferiors in western Long Island know you're headed to the Hamptons for the weekend

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Because they are fat and bloated, crash a lot, and can't do much work.

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Should be seeing the Trump Airship Corporation's fleet plowing the skies overhead any day now, then.

Zing!

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bitrex

Some jerk thiks it will revolutionise transport....

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TTman

They're going to be used as autonomous drones to airdrop Trump Steaks and Vodka direct to your doorstep.

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bitrex

Sounds commie to me! Come to think of it, it sounds oligarchic, too. Funny, that.

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definitely a "doth protest too much" type of situation

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bitrex

And when they're trying to stay above a point. If you're going to put a cell tower in an aircraft, the thing had damned well better have an airspeed that'll keep it on station in a hurricane, and be able to deal with strong turbulence. Otherwise it'll blow away or crash when you most need it.

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Although true the terrestrial mobile network is the first thing to fail in a serious storm induced power outage (or terrorist incident). The base stations go off air very quickly once mains is lost.

Fixed line phones with dumb handsets work better in extremis. The old phone exchanges still have substantial battery backup.

A Carrington class solar flare with a CME in out direction with international power grids would be very exciting. It was bad enough in

1859 before electricity distribution was important. The effect on electric telegraphs was pretty alarming as were the glowing skies.

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Its effect on GPS would be catastrophic - especially now we have a generation of people who slavishly follow what their GPS tells them.

Regards, Martin Brown

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If Trump did build airships, they would be really, really good airships! Nobody would build better airships.

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What other airplanes can stay aloft for 5 days? Lighter than air ships have been used for over 100 years and are still used today. They are not impossible to use and suit some applications very well. I recall some years ago some airships were used for drug interdiction. They mounted a radar in them and scanned the skys for the small aircraft being used to smuggle drugs. Much more cost effective than the over the horizon radar used in the DEW line.

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He already has his own air force, of real jet planes.

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And you can mount a pair of 50mm machine guns on them! What's not to love?

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Remember when Mitt Romeny's wife flew commercial to save money during the campaign, and Romney attempted to cut down on his use of private aircraft, his expenditures on which approached NEARLY the mid 6 figures?

And how the National Review criticized Hillary for spending a few hundred grand on chartered flights over close to a decade in office?

Haha oh well suckers, looks like what really impresses people is having your own private air foce...

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bitrex

Well, that settles it. I've been teetering back and forth for a number of months now on this. My vote is going to Trump!

Thanks.

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