Thread: Airship Hulls
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Old 06-02-2014, 09:15 PM   #17 (permalink)
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I remember when it was tested here, even using an old US Navy blimp hanger. The Aeroscraft 'Dragon Dream', a new gen rigid aluminum-skinned airship prototype with compressed helium-bladder system that controls buoyancy and altitude. Lift off is augmented by turbofan engines and steerable rear props to move it forward. At speed, the aero shape is controlled by front canards and rear empennages. All fly-by-wire signals use fiber optics, immune to EMF interference and unaffected by lightning strikes. It even uses vacuum pods system to anchor it down without the need for an extensive landing crew.
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