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Author Topic: A return to the time of the airship.  (Read 1469 times)

Offline Operator5

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A return to the time of the airship.
« on: July 10, 2008, 03:45:21 AM »
An interesting news article which may see the return of the airship.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/aviation/boeingbuildingbiggesthelicopterever
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Offline Poliorketes

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Re: A return to the time of the airship.
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2008, 07:55:09 AM »
I'm a little bit burned with that, lost some money with Cargolifter, a german airship project in the 90ies. Bought some papers then for a long time investment, but it went higly speculative and in hindsight I think at some point it became a fraud, though nobody was incriminated. Nobody knows where several 100 millions got lost, including public funds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargolifter_AG
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Offline pnweerar

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Re: A return to the time of the airship.
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2008, 08:35:32 AM »
Airships coming back totally make rising fuel costs worth it.

Well, not really, but a silver lining is a silver lining.

 

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