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Hybrid aircraft touted for future
Anchorage Daily News ^
| November 12, 2006
| JULIA O'MALLEY
Posted on 11/12/2006 8:57:42 AM PST by thackney
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FREIGHT HAULERS: Discussion examines possibilities for Alaska.
The image is a computer generated simulation of the 50-ton net payload cargo configured hybrid aircraft, HAC SkyFreighterTM 50, the latest high-tech incarnation of a blimp, filled with helium and powered by airplanes engines.
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posted on
11/12/2006 8:57:43 AM PST
by
thackney
To: thackney
a combo of blimp, plane and hovercraft, filled with freight, quietly floating over the ocean.
To: thackney
Yeah, I saw this in Popular mechanics back in, I think it was, 1964. ;)
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posted on
11/12/2006 9:10:13 AM PST
by
RobRoy
(Islam is a greater threat to the world now than Naziism was in 1937.)
To: thackney
they should use the hot exhaust from a jet engine for lift, then controlled venting for propulsion :)
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posted on
11/12/2006 9:13:22 AM PST
by
underbyte
To: thackney
Looks like it would be really susceptible to wind shear, due to bulk, relatively low speed and low altitude.
To: thackney
I'm having a hard time visualizing an airship carrying 50 tons of cargo...since it's not just a helium lift device, it must maintain a certain airspeed to lift that much. Then would they have to land on a runway at slow speed, or dump the cargo at low altitude and suddenly gain negative 50 tons of lift? Yee haw! Ride em, airboy!
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posted on
11/12/2006 10:06:45 AM PST
by
Sender
("Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything." -Mark Twain)
To: RegulatorCountry
it does look really nice though!
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posted on
11/12/2006 10:07:45 AM PST
by
Narcoleptic
(chuckle chuckle chuckle)
To: dragonblustar; Howlin; onyx; Clemenza; Petronski; GummyIII; SevenofNine; martin_fierro; veronica; ..
Ping to post #2! LOL!
To: RobRoy
Yeah, I saw this in Popular mechanics back in, I think it was, 1964. ;) They can use one to deliver your Flying Car...
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posted on
11/12/2006 10:14:23 AM PST
by
gridlock
(My Prognosticator Unit is busted, and stuck on "ROSY". Predictions may be unreliable.)
To: EveningStar
DAMN, MY EYES! :(
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posted on
11/12/2006 10:18:29 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just b/c your paranoid; Doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you. :^)
To: RegulatorCountry
Wind is light or scarce in much of Alaska much of the time. These aircraft could deliver bulk oil and gasoline to bush villages economically. Might be entertaining to test these aircraft in 60 below weather.
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posted on
11/12/2006 10:18:46 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(RTRA DLQS GSCW)
To: thackney
Yawn
Sounds like a money fishing expedition in Alaska. Heavens knows the state IDEA folks have handed out money for stranger things.
BTW, the mail was delivered via hovercraft a couple of years back, but the Natives complained about the noise, so the craft were dropped from use. They are noisy buggers.
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posted on
11/12/2006 10:21:04 AM PST
by
ASOC
(The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
To: thackney; Aeronaut
To: thackney
Might as well build zeppelins with modern materials.
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
11/12/2006 11:10:36 AM PST
by
Salgak
(Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border: I dare you to try and cross it. . .)
To: Spirochete
Might as well build zeppelins with modern materials.
You mean like
these folks are doing?
To: EveningStar
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posted on
11/12/2006 11:42:31 AM PST
by
Alia
To: martin_fierro
Had a Thunderbird 2 diecast toy. Held a little yellow TB 4 in the cargo pod. Very nice.
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posted on
11/12/2006 11:47:26 AM PST
by
RodgerD
(Don't Abolish America. Defeat the Bush-Pelosi Mexico-Merger Scheme)
To: dragonblustar
OMG rack itt ROFL that cold MAN very funny
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11/12/2006 1:31:10 PM PST
by
SevenofNine
("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
To: RightWhale
"Might be entertaining to test these aircraft in 60 below weather."
All sorts of surpising things gum up or even shatter at those temps. But, that's some pretty dense air, lol, so aerodynamic lift shouldn't be a problem. The other component of lift, helium, could be adversely affected, but I honestly can't say whether that would or would not be the case.
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