World's Largest Airship Inflated to Create Monster 'Stratellite'

Space.com ^ | 5/20/10

[PetroniusMaximus]

“I haven’t heard a peep about this since.”

No one is moving cargo.

[Army Air Corps]

The length does not mean as much as the amount (cu-ft) of helium.

[Scythian]

Honestly, I think it’s an image from a Video game, I’m not sure, but if the Germans had that thing and it flew can you imagine?

[Scythian]

Honestly, I think it’s an image from a Video game, I’m not sure, but if the Germans had that thing and it flew can you imagine?

[atomic conspiracy]

Kalinin K-7 It was actually a great deal smaller than it appears in the retouched propaganda pic but still one of the largest aircraft of its time. The specialty model manufacturer Anigrand has a rather pricey 1/144th scale model of it.

[RegulatorCountry]

Is that a movie prop from the USSR version of Star Wars or something?

Check out the guy standing on the observation deck above the flight deck, and the cannon in the landing gear.

Kind of cool, actually, but I just don’t see it ever leaving the ground.

[RegulatorCountry]

Here’s a great set of CGI images of the thing chasing a Nazi UFO, lol.

http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2009/01/25/russian-flying-fortresses/

[STD]

What’s this anyway? Please provide a link.

[1776 Reborn]

Yeah, but the deer will see you coming for miles? lol

[atomic conspiracy]

It was actually a Russian plane and it did fly. It was about 1/3 as large as it appears in the retouched photo. Here is some more fanciful artwork of the scaled-up K-7, including a dogfight with a UFO.

[atomic conspiracy]

See #50. Beat me to it by a few seconds.

GMTA!

[Semper911]

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World's Largest Airship Inflated to Create Monster 'Stratellite'

And here I thought it would be shaped like a giant electric guitar.

[1776 Reborn]

I think the biggest problems blimps have always had is storage, particularly from storms while being tethered on the ground. Their size to payload ratios just never seem
to make much sense.

[from occupied ga]

And those semi’s do not have to lift any of their load off the ground

Absolutely true, but again irrelevant to my point. There are one heck of a lot cheaper ways of slowly getting something from one place to another than using an airship.

[CholeraJoe]

Great, but how do they get it out?

[atomic conspiracy]

Interestingly enough, Anigrand also has a model of the alleged Nazi flying saucer, the Dornier-Stratospharen Haunebu II

[beebuster2000]

wow

[lado]

No one has posted “Oh, The Huge Manatee” pic yet? I can’t believe it!!!

[Army Air Corps]

As far as regular cargo carrying goes, I agree. There are still some applications for airships, but this isn’t it.