The Aeroscraft Airship

"If you like the idea of cruising on a ship in laid-back luxury, but prefer the speed and convenience of air travel, there may soon be a solution. Drawing their inspiration from the airships of yesteryear, a new generation of airship-like vehicles could soon be making their way across our skies."

"In a hangar outside Tustin in California, engineers are preparing one of the most radical designs for testing. The Aeroscraft, as it is known, is the brainchild of Igor Pasternak and has been made possible by advances in materials and computer control systems."

"We are resurrecting [the airship] with new composite fabric structures, that are stronger, lighter, more versatile" says Fred Edworthy, of Aeros, the company building the lighter-than-air vehicle."

"The airship in the hangar is being built to test various key components of a design that could one day contain a hotel, casino or spa. However, the company believes one of its biggest markets could be transporting freight from hard-to-reach locations or, for example, carrying wind turbine blades. Currently blades are as large as they can be to be transported on a truck."

“It’s a new era for logistics in cargo. Transport is our first aim for these craft," says Edworthy. "It’s impossible to get into some of the resource rich areas of the world. Ecologically, you can’t do it. Areas of the far north, or the Amazon are good examples."

"Planes need large runways, and helicopters can only carry limited loads. But the Aeroscraft can take-off and land vertically using turbofans that can swivel to provide lift and move the craft forward."

read / watch http://www.bbc.com/f...air-craft-rises

aeros http://www.aeroscraft.com

Why did they need to shape it like a piece of poo

perhaps we are entering the true era of airships, I say heck yeah, bring it on!

this is one of my favorite articles concerning airships:

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/airships/

  On 9/26/2012 at 7:54 PM, roasty said:

Why did they need to shape it like a piece of poo

Aerodynamics. If a piece of poo wasn't shaped like that, it would just hover in the toilet bowl. That would be stinky.

For your science.

If we've learned anything from Watchmen and Fringe, it's that blimpin is pimpin.

hm last time someone tried to resurrect the airship, it kinda failed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter

Have you been to tropical islands™? I wanted to go there last time ich war in Deutschland aber leider konnte ich nicht.