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Old 06-30-2021, 08:45 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I love that any new thing presented to freebeard is shown by him to be new packaging of an old thing.
I've just been interested in twin boom tails lately. P-38 air ambulance.

A more up-to-date comparsion? The V-22 osprey.


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After Hindenburg went up in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, it kinda took people's appetite away.
It was all the anti-hydrogen propaganda.

If we'd segued to hot hydrogen for main lift and steam (~same as Helium) for modulating lift and jacketing the hydrogen core for insulation and safety; then air travelers might not be getting the deep vein thrombosis and radiation doses of today.
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