I was reading a most interesting article today on the future potential resurgence of airships as a more environment friendly means of transport for long distance air travel .. I see more aslo a parralell with sea shipping where sails to assist resutling in 25 % + fuel saving .. anyhow shoot me down , but over the many years i have done international travel with the resultant long flights .. i have always done a little mind thing saying to the aircraft that i entrust myself to it and the pilot carrying me to destination safely ( possibly the result of a near crash at Luderitz airport many years ago which put the sh*ts in me for many years ) I suppose its like patting your car on the bonnet before a long journey and saying " we gonna get there safely hey ?" Anyhow I have over the years had this recuring dream when i sleep on a long journey .. whereby I was told that the days of the high speed jetliner will draw to a close or diminish and that air travel will revert to slower more sedate airships .. being larger ,comfort would be easier to facilitate so a longer journey would not wreck one as cramped air travel does .. Lo and behold i read this article today .. see shortcut airshipsafrica.com .. indeed interesting visit to the website .. airship hybrids .. a combination of wingspan and blimp with helium assist pretty much as it came to me in the dreams .. so we dont have to worry about a repeat of the Hindenburg disaster ... anyone see that movie .. I always remember the lady with the tiny pipe .. visit and enjoy ..
http://airshipsafrica.com/
It looks pretty interesting, though if you click on their projects page, all you get is a map of Africa......
go to all the bits .. products .. scroll even further .. and more appears ...
do this shortcut http://airshipsafrica.com/Media.html
This is something tha was planed in Germany to. They spent a lot of money on the project.
In the end the lorries won the race again.
The giant sized building in which the aircrafts were being built is now used as a kind of holiday resort. Made up like a tropical scenery with several swimming pools.