I have seen the future and its name is Aerocraft Airships
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A blimp by any other name.......
2 posted on
11/22/2006 5:33:46 PM PST by
roaddog727
(BullS##t does not get bridges built)
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4 posted on
11/22/2006 5:35:54 PM PST by
AmericanVictory
(Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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400 ton payload traveling at 175 mph--could there be military transport applications for this?
5 posted on
11/22/2006 5:36:28 PM PST by
rottndog
(WOOF!!!)
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It looks like something out of a cartoon...
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Might be fun with a casino, although sporting clays are probably a non starter...
5.56mm
7 posted on
11/22/2006 5:38:12 PM PST by
M Kehoe
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I would definitely save up for a trip on this. Really cool!
Provided, it's affordable to the average mutley.
9 posted on
11/22/2006 5:39:12 PM PST by
mutley
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10 posted on
11/22/2006 5:42:54 PM PST by
knews_hound
(Sarcastically blogging since 2004.)
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Won't everyone sound like Mickey Mouse when they talk? /sarc
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Nothing new here. The U.S. Navy did something like this back in the 1930s. (The project ended in disaster.)
USS Macon Flying Aircraft Carrier of the 1930s.
The USS Macon carried 50 of these Sparrow Hawk fighter bombers. The aircraft were swung out, dropped and were recovered by the same mechanism.
15 posted on
11/22/2006 5:58:24 PM PST by
DJ Taylor
(Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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That's the ultimate MILE HIGH CLUB!!!
20 posted on
11/22/2006 6:16:31 PM PST by
ken5050
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I notice one of the artist's conceptions has the (rebuilt?) Twin Towers.
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Huge, slow, clumsy, easy military target.
Huge, slow, clumsy, easy terrorist target - with plenty of "wow" factor.
27 posted on
11/22/2006 9:27:44 PM PST by
WireAndWood
(DNC: if it weren't for groupthink we'd have no think at all.)
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