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To: Army Air Corps
For an airship that is 235-ft long, that is not a bad payload

Irrelevant. My point is that there are a lot of materials/wealth invested in a vehicle with a very small payload. I'v guessing that this thing cost a lot more than a couple of semi's with a payload of 80,000 lb each.

34 posted on 05/24/2010 11:10:29 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: from occupied ga

And those semi’s do not have to lift any of their load off the ground. Also, an airship does not have lifting surfaces (wings) to provide lift. All lift in an airship comes down to the amount of mass that a volume of lifting gas can lift; the more cu-ft of gas, more lift.


40 posted on 05/24/2010 11:16:34 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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