Inside a Tech Billionaire’s Secret Airship Plan

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Some 86 years after the Hindenburg disaster, LTA Research wants to bring back airships, this time with funding from Sergey Brin. The billionaire and co-founder of Google has quietly helped modernize a long-forgotten form of flight-one that could be used to transport cargo or assist during humanitarian relief missions. Ashlee Vance got an exclusive look at their prototype.
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@BillMoffitt1 Жыл бұрын

I have been hoping for airships to make a comeback for 40 years. I actually think that using hydrogen is feasible with modern materials (i.e. don't surround it with something akin to thermite). I would love to take an airship cruise across the country... More likely, however is seeing airships in a lot of applications where we are using helicopters today. Heavy lifting (emergency, forestry, HVAC, etc.), "Loitering" surveillance (get rid of police helicopters), and tourism appear to be feasible markets.

@HelloThere-xx1ct Жыл бұрын

No. Every single airship the Navy has ever used crashed. Every single one. Some 133 deaths in total. There are no antique airships for a reason. They all crash and then their sister ships are scrapped.

@kinngrimm Жыл бұрын

there had been several attempts including bringing back the Zepelin ^^ in germany or for the military in the US by another company though

@forloop7713 Жыл бұрын

@@HelloThere-xx1ctso the sister ship didn't crash?

@conniepoo Жыл бұрын

@@HelloThere-xx1ct Airships will make a comeback, especially when shipping companies like Amazon use them for drone deliveries, which is a future I do see coming. Most airship crashes have been caused by flying into bad weather, which is human error, and the other crashes that weren't caused by human error can easily be prevented with modern technology and material improvements.

@HelloThere-xx1ct Жыл бұрын

@@conniepoo Lol other than the human error of flying into bad weather. Nothing will ever change the fact that airships are huge lighter than air sails which will always be susceptible to high winds and storms. It's really hard to make a transportation craft viable and profitable that can't operate in the same weather conditions as a similar plane or ship. This is why I would look to companies like JP Aerospace, which plans to use airships to launch objects into orbit at low cost, for the future of helpful airship tech.

@ahoog69 Жыл бұрын

While I understand the value and purpose of having an airship for an emergency situation, I must admit that I would love to see someone come up with a luxury air cruise that lasts a week or so.

@ManteIIo Жыл бұрын

The ones that were build nearly century ago were all luxury ones if I am not mistaken, they basically were indistinguishable from being in a mansion and had furniture, grand pianos, art works on walls etc etc and when it came to tickets - they were wildly expensive as these crafts were made with intention exclusively reserved for upper class traveling and thus all this was needed in order for them to feel like on big comfy boat.

@licencetoswill Жыл бұрын

@@ManteIIo aluminium grand pianos.

@cosmotect Жыл бұрын

Just casually stroll across breathtaking sights over several days, sounds great. Then use the expertise to build ariships for Venutian atmosphere

@krrk6337 11 ай бұрын

The longer you are up there, the more food and water you needed to carry, and that becomes unfeasible.

@midgetman4206 10 ай бұрын

@@krrk6337That seems like it would the perfect roll for a drone mothership. Have UAVs pick up the resources and fly back up to drop them off. Water? Harvest the water from the condensers that would already be on board for internal climate control. Minerals can easily be added in. Though I will agree that it is easier said than done.

@emom358 Жыл бұрын

If it is kept affordable I would be happy to travel in an airship.

@Chris.Davies Жыл бұрын

No. No you would not.

@The_Quaalude Жыл бұрын

RIP 😂

@xgtwb6473 Жыл бұрын

if we can smoke cigatettes i'm in

@kateapple1 Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, I’m sure a billionaire will keep it affordable 😂

@googleuser3163 11 ай бұрын

@@Chris.DaviesWhy? Airships are incredibly safe. Even when they used hydrogen there was only one civilian passenger airship disaster (Hindenburg) and even then more than half on board survived. You couldn't expect the same outcome from planes of that era.

@glassesstapler Жыл бұрын

solving a problem that doesn't exist, with nostalgic tech and way too much money to spare... a few things come to mind

@TheeOnlyStolas Жыл бұрын

You’re telling me you wouldn’t go on an airship cruise?

@lokiaverro4196 Жыл бұрын

ah yes, disaster relief. "a problem that doesn't exist"

@UhOhUmm Жыл бұрын

@@lokiaverro4196 disaster relief with the cargo capacity of one container total.... riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. What are you relieving? Two kittens?

@lokiaverro4196 Жыл бұрын

@UhOhUmm what point do you think you are making? Do you think the objective just to move everyone to another place? Disaster relief involves REBUILDING. which involves communications and supply infrastructure. These can be hard to implement in a disaster zone. Hopefully, even yoy can inagine how this could be helpful for assisting disaster relief efforts.

@cedriceric9730 10 ай бұрын

The problem IS airplanes fall out of the sky way too easily and helicopters are inefficient and loud. Their altitudes are also limited There will always be space for an airship in aviation

@TheCebulon Жыл бұрын

I hope this time it will be a success. Would be so awesome to see them in the air again.

@HardRockMaster7577 Жыл бұрын

Just avoid NJ.

@Chris.Davies Жыл бұрын

Yes, wouldn't it be amazing to see the single dumbest idea in transport make a return?

@midgetman4206 10 ай бұрын

@@Chris.DaviesDirigibles have undeniable utility. I think a role they'd be perfect for is in being UAVs. Their nearly limitless flight time can be quite useful in stuff like surveillance. On a much grander scale, they can work as a communications platform. Kind of like how they plan on using high aspect ratio, solar powered UAVs.

@schlirf Жыл бұрын

With modern tech, the airship programs currently in development around the world might actually be logistics carriers of the near future.

@Chris.Davies Жыл бұрын

No. No they most definitely will not.

@urgo224 Жыл бұрын

A 737 cargo variant can carry more stuff than an airship. Also with the limited supply of helium they would become expensive very fast.

@JSDV9999 8 ай бұрын

Hydrogen works fine, the flammability problem was mostly a scam, it's not like jet fuel won't burn if a plane crashes.@@urgo224

@timothinking9855 6 ай бұрын

We're sorry your package has been delayed by a thunderstorm....

@schlirf 6 ай бұрын

@@timothinking9855 Or by a Gungho Beagle flying a doghouse?

@5t4n5 Жыл бұрын

You failed to mention a world wide shortage of helium. If everyone starts building helium balloons it begs the question "Where is all the helium coming from and at what cost will it be?" Like all commodities when there is a shortage, the more helium people want around the world the more expensive it's going to get.

@airborne0x0 Жыл бұрын

Are they not proposing a fusion reactor to make helium from hydrogen yet?

@shannonjaensch3705 Жыл бұрын

The shortage of helium is no doubt a scare/fear propaganda. NASA is the largest consumer of helium as they use in their fake satelites (sateloons). Their old space shuttle external tanks were blimps and would have consumed a fair amount of helium.

@5t4n5 Жыл бұрын

@@airborne0x0 Silly me, all the fusion reactors in the world producing all that unlimited electricity have come to the helium rescue. The airship can go ahead. LOL

@shadowmeister5432 Жыл бұрын

@@5t4n5 Fusion Reactors might not be breaking even with making energy but they still can produce materials for use. Such as small scale fusion reactors that they want to use to make medical grade isotopes on site so they don't degrade during transport.

@TheHatManCole 11 ай бұрын

I hear helium costs 67 times more than hydrogen. We must use hydrogen for the long term

@Jon_REDACTED 3 ай бұрын

It’s nice to see these being brought back with the potential they had, if they find a better fuel or material for it it can eventuality become widespread

@pi.actual Жыл бұрын

I don't know, I've watched a couple of documentaries about the Goodyear blimps. They require a large dedicated ground crew to follow it everywhere it goes with specialized equipment and even when it's moored to the docking mast it needs a pilot onboard 24/7 to monitor it. If any significant weather approaches it needs to high tail it out of town. The only time it can be truly "parked" is in a hangar. A really BIG one.

@jaredspencer3304 Жыл бұрын

True, but airships used to cross the Atlantic and sail patrols into the Pacific during war time. They can definitely be built to be durable. I wonder if that's one of the primary differences between blimps and airships.

@conniepoo Жыл бұрын

@@jaredspencer3304 Yes, blimps are significantly more vulnerable to damage versus airships. A blimp behaves like a balloon in the air, it has a lot less mass than a fully rigid airship, though airships are still susceptible to bad weather as well.

@jaredspencer3304 Жыл бұрын

This technology, paired with the new shipping-container-sized nuclear reactors, would be game-changing in disaster areas, where transportation infrastructure is usually destroyed, as is the power grid, making recovery and medical aid so much more difficult.

@PerfectInterview Жыл бұрын

The basic problem with rigid airships is that they require a large volume to contain the lifting gas. Large volume = large surface area, and large surface area = high drag. So they are inherently slow and inefficient and are playthings to any sort of wind. Most airships from the classic era were destroyed during adverse encounters with weather systems. This airship is likely to meet the same fate unless they restrict it only flying on calm days.

@licencetoswill Жыл бұрын

weather modelling has improved a wee bit in 90 years, so yes that should be possible. 60 knots speed is worthwhile too, more than I was expecting.

@ramdom_player201 Жыл бұрын

Technology and modern materials have improved a lot since the first airships. Also, while airships may be inefficient for travelling long distances quickly due to their drag coefficient, they are not inefficient when it comes to just being in the air. Unlike planes and helicopters, airships do not require much (if any) energy to stay afloat for their considerable size.

@Swampwild1 Жыл бұрын

That is an excellent comment. Do you have any numbers about these losses. I know sailors deal with the same issues at lower speeds every day avoiding storms.

@xiHasMilkx 10 ай бұрын

Errr except thats not how drag works, the volume is scaled at r^3, but drag is at r^2, so in reality, the larger you make them, the more efficient they become

@cptbizzo 10 ай бұрын

@@xiHasMilkxdamn, you saw the Veritasium video as well? 😂

@SoCalFreelance Жыл бұрын

Helium is a nonrenewable resource in limited supply.

@DemPilafian Жыл бұрын

Airships don't consume helium. Helium is not the fuel.

@maxmeier532 Жыл бұрын

@@DemPilafian well, it will evaporate and the "balloon" has to be refilled regularly. Obviously.

@cluebin8398 Жыл бұрын

@@DemPilafian Actually they do, it leaks out continuously. There is no known fabric that helium can't find its way through.

@_zajlock_6635 Жыл бұрын

@@maxmeier532evaporation = going from fluid to gas. What you probably meant was that it would just leak out.

@somerandomfella Жыл бұрын

Somebody put some handcuffs on Ashlee Vance. He's back! Don't let him leave..

@jon6288 Жыл бұрын

Makes more sense to have a hydrogen-powered ship that also uses hydrogen as the lift gas… and make it a drone. Way higher lift capacity, dual-use bladders (fuel and lift gas), and no humans at risk if you make it a drone (almost nobody is going to want to pay extra to make a trip 8 times slower than a plane).

@vincelibrandi Жыл бұрын

Sure then all that is left is to call it Hindenburg and let history repeat /s

@Charlie-UK Жыл бұрын

You say that "almost nobody is going to want to pay extra to make a trip 8 times slower than a plane ". But the market for Cruise Ships is enormous. So 'Going Slow', is no impediment to making bucket loads of money. And who wouldn't want to sail majestically, far above the waves & over land. A carrying capacity of 150-200 people, is no slouch in avaiation terms. For a Full size Airship...

@jon6288 Жыл бұрын

@@Charlie-UK People like cruise ships because they're floating resorts with pools and restaurants and theaters that also give you the option of going to check out a different coastal location every day or two. Even an enormous airship won't have the lift capacity for 1/100th of the amenities on a cruise ship. And these things would be even worse than cruise ships at handling bad weather, or carrying enough rafts if it had to ditch in the ocean, etc etc. A better comparison would be with long-distance trains... and even they have better amenities. And even then, the market for long-distance trains is incredibly small, unless they're high-speed and can compete with airliners. When they can't compete (think transcontinental amtrak in the US) the market is essentially nonexistent. Nobody wants to spend $3k to take a 6-day trip across the country. Maybe you do, but you're not representative.

@TrogdorBurnin8or Жыл бұрын

Helium currently costs about $15 per kilogram of sea level lift at perfect efficiency, and that price is rising. Prices are so extreme that there are threats by private industry to start harvesting the stuff again.

@kevint1910 Жыл бұрын

the us had two or three helium airships the safety issue is less about the hydrogen being flammable than it is about airships being uncontrollable in high winds.

@ralphgiles4754 Жыл бұрын

Excellent.....all the best.

@cedricmeralo9361 8 ай бұрын

Thank you

@therealtwo2dee 10 ай бұрын

id love to see a come back of ridged body airships ive been obsessed with them since i was a child and some day id love to see one fly

@knessing7681 Жыл бұрын

there's a Helium shortage right now and for years (it is a non-renewable resource and element unless you can siphon/mine it off another planet/moon in the solar system), it's going to be expensive to fill it up and the tickets to ride it is going to be expensive.

@billthorne1 Жыл бұрын

Very cool!

@polohenry4666 Жыл бұрын

That's always be primary question when traveling, how virtuous will it make me feel

@njpaddler 10 ай бұрын

A short but densely-packed great little book is "The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed" by John McPhee. The LTA concept in the early 1970's took a delta-shaped lifting body and proved itself airworthy in it's last prototype tests. The plan was to build them scaled up to gigantic size, and yes, among the visions was that of disaster relief with a cargo capacity beyond anything extant then or now, with vertical maneuvering thrown in, too. Sadly, the Aereon Corp. did not survive, but the lifting body design did, as NASA's Space Shuttle.

@bornjusticerule5764 Жыл бұрын

That scaffold looks great

@Isaacmantx Жыл бұрын

My grandfather was stationed on an airship shortly after the Korean War. They have always seemed so cool to me.

@jfeeney100 Жыл бұрын

Hmmm..... Interesting that this project has settled down in Ames Research Center. Long ago, LTA Air Ships were quite common there up until 1939. In the video you could see the stripped structure of Hanger 1. This is where the air ship Macon was based. This was a much larger dirigible.

@ykozfk1406 Жыл бұрын

I would like to see a transportation competition with Chinese balloon drones.

@CharonSin Жыл бұрын

Is a giant helium airship really feasible with the worlds dwindling supply of helium? Or a fleet of airships as this company plans on.

@ErikPortland Жыл бұрын

Agreed. We waste so much helium.

@conniepoo Жыл бұрын

Well, if we start getting fusion energy working, the byproduct is helium, and we are on the verge of that as well.

@Shadow__133 Жыл бұрын

@@conniepoo"On the verge" 😂😂😂

@Swampwild1 Жыл бұрын

That’s another major issue. Is fusion really the limiting factor?

@HVM_fi Жыл бұрын

@@conniepoo Eh, no. Amount of helium produced is minuscule, and we don't have working gird power reactors for decades. Test ship need 180 000 m^2 helium. As long we use natural gas we have source for helium. Helium content can be as high as 7% of the raw natural gas, and as an inert gas it is needed to be removed.

@martinheinzbecker9754 Жыл бұрын

My super professional opinion: WOW!!

@Concetta20 9 ай бұрын

Yes please!

@darkflamestudios 5 ай бұрын

I always heard about these and saw pictures and recreations in cartoons, but I have never seen a real airship. Its incredible how people think modern society is something to celebrate, when all the best stuff was in the past, and they are just making the world worse while keeping the knowledge of these technologies for themselves.

@sundaynobody Жыл бұрын

awesome! So cool!

@RedBeard1400 6 ай бұрын

We need airships! I'd love to look up and see hundreds of airships!

@jamesblair9614 6 ай бұрын

They are at the mercy of the weather, to a far greater degree than any other air craft, plus, the infrastructure for landing and storing plus ground crew needs, these are the same problems that plagued the original airships, and still have to be addressed.

@laiqhifza2095 Жыл бұрын

Realy awesome congratulations all the Enjneers technical staf even little working people in this air ship congrats from all the world's. People stay blessed

@smallbluemachine Жыл бұрын

Oh the humanity!

@joaodecarvalho7012 Жыл бұрын

I think they should give hydrogen one more chance. It's cheaper, lighter, and has less leakage. The only problem is that it is flammable, but I think this can be solved with current technologies. And if there are indeed security issues, they could use remotely operated airships. Humans are too heavy for these things.

@SodiumSyndicate Жыл бұрын

There is no current technology that can turn Hydrogen into an inert gas.

@mrwess1927 10 ай бұрын

Its funny how atoms work. ❤. The more protons in the nucleus with the increased mass one would think atomic size increases as we get more and more protons... but the nuclear forces of the positive nucleus are balanced with the electrons... the protons are positive and the electrons are negative. Each proton is +1 and each electron is -1 when you add up all the electrons and protons you get the overall charge for an atom.when the balance of electrons and protons are uneven you get a positively or negatively charged atom..... Neutrons are found in the nucleus and affect the mass of an atom but is neutrally charged so does not affect the charge, when adding charge components adding neutrons is like adding 0. Anyways, because larger atoms have more protons and electrons (generally) the attractive forces between the e- and p+ are greater reducing the radius at which the electrons orbit, that is until you reach the noble gases, complete the valence level and enter the next row on the periodic table of elements...

@TrenchCoatDingo 8 ай бұрын

@@mrwess1927 and the answer is

@solidorsharp3091 Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🎉🎉🎉 Alan Weston

@zeppelinH0 7 ай бұрын

Very nice Video, I hope for more. Greetings from Germany, Black forest.

@mysteriousfleas 4 ай бұрын

Helium is such a precious resource we can't afford to use it on floaty things such as dirigibles. Hydrogen is a disaster waiting to happen for a multitude of reasons and despite the best contingency plans put in place by engineers who knew the risks back when dirigibles were popular. I've always loved airships they're a sight to behold, we had a huge one flying around my city in 2005, it was crazy to see but I don't see them coming back the way they once were.

@glennwatson3313 Жыл бұрын

Oh, the humanity!

@karlmckinnell2635 Жыл бұрын

Airship hangers are pretty cool 😊.

@rexsolomon6325 Жыл бұрын

There is not enough helium to go around.

@audiovideophile5317 Жыл бұрын

We're supposed to be running out of helium which is needed for various medical and industrial processes. So this is likely a waste of helium. Also it's the only element on the periodic table which is a non-renewable resource on Earth.

@timothyschwinghamer5248 Жыл бұрын

I hope that perhaps we could build these in Alberta, Canada, to enable distribution of food to the North. Shipping food by road and train is not necessarily possible over the soggy melting tundra.

@user-mc5oh2pl7t Жыл бұрын

Are you sure that it would be easy to fly over it?

@Swampwild1 Жыл бұрын

This is an excellent point. Canada should be involved in the development. If this were feasible it would solve so many issues for northern communities. Winter roads are threatened by climate change and building permanent roads is unbelievably expensive. We need to make sure research on cold conditions is conducted.

@Swampwild1 Жыл бұрын

I imagine it would give ignorant politicians a opportunity to ridicule anyone supporting the idea, but we have already learned how to ignore Pollievre.

@user-mc5oh2pl7t Жыл бұрын

@@Swampwild1 Here is a many problem in flying airships in cold environments.

@Dimaz42 Жыл бұрын

Sergey gave a codename for this airship: Kirov airship

@Man_fay_the_Bru 7 ай бұрын

The Shanendoah comes to mind

@Krugzug 11 ай бұрын

Helium is the only element on the periodic table which is a non-renewable resource on Earth.

@jonnyh5858 Жыл бұрын

Shout out nick Mullen for dreaming of rigid airship revival

@GWAYGWAY1 Жыл бұрын

The trouble with airships is that they are displacement vessels, make it big enough to lift a load and if the load is removed the it must be ballasted with equal weight or it would be off to the stratosphere like a beach ball from the seabed. It is not a viable load lifter. Too big a wetted area to move at a decent speed without huge power to overcome the drag.

@googleuser3163 Жыл бұрын

They can vent gas to account for increased buoyancy one the cargo is delivered, the problem is helium is too expensive and scarce to dispose of like that. The solution would be unmanned hydrogen-lifted ships.

@user-mc5oh2pl7t Жыл бұрын

@@googleuser3163 ... And releasing a lot of flammable hydrogen intp the air... YEAH!

@googleuser3163 Жыл бұрын

@@user-mc5oh2pl7t If it's vented through multiple small exit points spread across the hull of the ship then it poses no threat. This was never a problem with historical airships that used hydrogen and it wouldn't be a problem now.

@marlbankian 4 ай бұрын

Airships should use the Jet Streams as much as possible.

@HypeBeast764 Жыл бұрын

BILLIONAIRES YEARN FOR THE TUBES

@sweetdragon36067 3 ай бұрын

After flying as a sardine in commercial aircraft, these would be like taking a cruise ship in the sky.

@npalmi88 Жыл бұрын

BRING BACK AIRSHIPS!

@massimookissed1023 Жыл бұрын

The Airbus A400-m has double the range and 50% more lift capacity. Oh, and it already exists.

@sloughone1 Жыл бұрын

A400-m needs a runway!

@DaKindnes Жыл бұрын

Certify it. Carbon fiber does not work experiencing compression. Only strong against tensile load.

@kubeckjay1137 Жыл бұрын

Is there a wait list to ride on it?

@supotsae-eung4806 Жыл бұрын

imagine deliivery drone swarm out form airship to deliver package

@sandbridgekid4121 Жыл бұрын

Taussigs immediate ancestor was a famous US Navy Admiral.

@stevengreidinger8295 Жыл бұрын

Helium is supposed to be running out, and it's needed for medical applications. We may not be able to have thousands of Helium airships running around for that reason. If there is a helium expert, please chime in.

@grantrennie Жыл бұрын

Huge reserves of helium, large deposits found in Namibia in Central Africa and also South Africa, some found from gas seeping from the ground and some drilled into by companies looking for oil and gas for fuel, the helium is worth more. There are big reserves in many other countries but they hold it to themselves due to its usefulness or they aren't friendly with eachother to openly sell and trade the helium. Helium is a byproduct gas of radioactive decay starting off with radon and going through many stages of radioactive decay chain before arriving at radiologically inert helium, with a few stages of radioactive daughters of radon and helium along the way, this is due to large deposits of radioactive minerals such as uranium,radium and thorium deep underground, helium is also now extracted from most oil and gas wells worldwide where it used to be seen as a waste byproduct and vented away

@gus473 Жыл бұрын

@@grantrennieSo why isn't the entire NE United States dotted with helium wells? It's radon central, and there used to be oil wells in PA...? 🤔

@nobrakes7247 Жыл бұрын

Can't wait

@sirelliott3753 Жыл бұрын

4:50 "at least the passengers will feel virtuous" That's the selling point?

@The_Quaalude Жыл бұрын

Watching this explode live is gona. Be crazy ☠️

@MicPGTS Жыл бұрын

😂

@googleuser3163 11 ай бұрын

Impossible for it to explode, it's filled with helium

@Fj8282haha Жыл бұрын

looking forward for Huan advancement !!!

@clubsport9334 Жыл бұрын

Can these things actually survive in bad weather. Tiny engines couldn't push that huge sail area through strong winds!?

@evertoaster Жыл бұрын

Not as bad as you might think. They can do 70 mph so could stand a fair breeze.

@vishalpratapsingh Жыл бұрын

Definitely there is something more to this or it's just a very very wealthy person wanted his childhood toy to see in real world.

@invaderraven1 Жыл бұрын

Billionaire blimp yacht

@yoan4152 7 ай бұрын

Do you think i have seen a blimp ? It was a sphere around 5 meters and no cord or any moving part on it. Just a smooth and clean sphere going horizontal and around 300 meter above the ground....

@Guitar6ty 7 ай бұрын

Airships could have a great future as touring vehicles. They should be built as a delta wing design which would mean less problems for workers to build it as it would not be as high as the sausage shape. Also as a delta wing it would have a large area to put printed solar panels on.

@zapfanzapfan Жыл бұрын

Air ships would be really useful for lifting and delivering things that weigh more than the 20 tons the heaviest helicopters can lift.

@Zulu4impi 2 ай бұрын

As soon as he said.... reducing carbon footprint....danger... danger Will Roberts.... danger. I understand it's for ESG funding but seriously folks

@hosermandeusl2468 Жыл бұрын

Q: how many MRI's would it take to fill his balloon?

@joependleton6293 Жыл бұрын

Imagine cities having heavy lift vehicles like blimps ?

@kevin3434343434 Жыл бұрын

ooof, could you imagine getting caught in a strong thunderstorm in one of these?

@EndlessWaltz Жыл бұрын

Let’s go Hindenburg!

@punkdigerati Жыл бұрын

So "Cuben fiber"/Dyneema Composite Fabric shell?

@diamondbaka Жыл бұрын

not that sustainable since we have a limited supply of helium

@shanewilson2484 Жыл бұрын

It could be used to deliver large wind turbine blades to land sites for blades that are too big to be delivered by road.

@skeptibleiyam1093 Жыл бұрын

To places that are picked specifically because of consistently high winds?

@jcsmith725 Жыл бұрын

I would love to see a day where manufactured goods travel by airship from country to country to compliment the massive cargo ships on the sea.

@SodiumSyndicate Жыл бұрын

Not happening, they are too susceptible to weather anomalies.

@Flowrazornapalm 10 ай бұрын

@@SodiumSyndicate 1. who cares about the weather when the airship is way faster ? you can sit out couple of bad weather days and still be faster 2. much more individual by the destination it can reach

@SodiumSyndicate 10 ай бұрын

@@Flowrazornapalm In those couple of days you could send the goods by train which can handle normal weather anomalies easily.

@danhunters8226 Жыл бұрын

Think use as luxury cruise ships and yachts is the most probable viable market for these.

@sanjuansteve 11 ай бұрын

I think the helping people in disasters bit is just an excuse for billionaires to feel better about themselves as they keep adding more billions to their bank accounts.

@NoidoDev 5 ай бұрын

I only skipped through, and missed the comparison to other failed projects, to show what this one does better. The other issue is, Helium is rare and should be used very frugally.

@notapplicable4567 Жыл бұрын

5:39 yeah go ahead use this in adverse conditions lol

@eugenemoyers8631 Жыл бұрын

Where do I sign up for a ride? It's high time we brought back dirigibles. Modern technology (radar, better weather forecasting, composite materials) can make better, stronger and safer ships than back in the thirties. And, there are some real applications where the y can be useful.

@Kiet1 Жыл бұрын

The brotherhood of steel's founder: sergey brin

@sixhundredandfive7123 9 ай бұрын

One of these days I have to do the calculations to see how many dirigibles it takes to lift a container ship aloft.

@lukasfoerster9316 Жыл бұрын

As much as I love these videos and the technology it really appears ignorant that there was no mentioning of ZEPPELIN NT, whose predecessor did not only invent the technology, but who has been building and operating airships, not blimps, for many years now - both for tourism and other uses. In a way that's very american ;D

@AshleeVanceHelloWorld Жыл бұрын

This is a short version of a much longer video that is coming soon. I take a ride in the NT in Germany. Hang tight.

@lukasfoerster9316 Жыл бұрын

@@AshleeVanceHelloWorld Chapeau for registering these suggestions! I am really looking forward to the Zeppelin NT video :D 2 Min.

@monkebetao Жыл бұрын

imagine living in one

@Bare36 Жыл бұрын

Well,if a Graf Zeppelin was built almost 100 years ago and made 1.7 mil. Kms,without crash landing,i don't see,why today couldn't be built better airships (airyachts)...to cruise above earth..oceans,jungles,deserts,earth's poles...today we have radars,weather forecast,lightweight engines..there is everything to make better stuff.

@markos.5539 Жыл бұрын

So a derigible?

@leosalazar6869 Жыл бұрын

Count von Zeppelin must be happy to hear that the sky giants are going to fly again

@russell7489 Жыл бұрын

Hard to imagine basing this in Africa, there's little support for anything there much less hi tech anything. Are they thinking of basing in EU to run supplies down to Africa. 60 mph is 1,200 miles a day, in 3 or 4 days could be anywhere in Africa. What would they do, fly in a support crew and any equipment needed to dock it and wait for it to arrive? just drop ropes and hope locals can figure out how to hang on, let go, etc until it settles.... Hurricane and Typhoon zones? Well, where to base it that won't end up with it being shredded along with it's hanger? Again, fly in? Where from US to carribiean islands? The air fields are almost always open right away and islands so small distriubting from airfield no big deal. Fly from EU to SE Asia - that's like 5 - 9 days if trying to miss big mountains. I'd like to hear more how hes worked out with non profits logistics of using this. He has done that. He does have such clients signed up?????

@MalcrowAlogoran Жыл бұрын

The problem with helium is that the amount on Earth has an absolute limit, and the moment it leaks into the air, it rises through our atmosphere and escape to space.

@johnpolhamus9041 Жыл бұрын

Radar + Helium = safe dirigibles.

@gargoyle7863 Жыл бұрын

So sad the similar Carolifter project went bankrupt. They were 20 years too early. I think we could use its cargo capacity for building wind turbines in remote areas without the necessity to build access roads first.