The US Navy had a number of disaterous episodes with LTA vehicles (USS Macon & USS Akron) and they were using helium. Too bad the US and Germany were at odds, the combined engineering skills might have left us with a more elegant means of travel.
All the accounts I've read of the Graf or Hindenburg have them as the prefered means to travel the Atlantic (if you could afford it). It's amazing how the Hindenburg (perhaps the Nazi ties) has killed the airship travel industry for decades, even tho' the lose of life in HTA vehicles was, even at that time, much higher. There is a move in Europe to reintroduce tourist flights on these elegant airships, hopefully it will catch on. I'd jump on the opportunity to fly in one. Of course, I'd love to fly a Saturn V as well ;o) One may be possible some day soon... Can you imagine 160M Air Mobile? Cheers, Julius n2wn ------------------------------------------------------- I suspect that airships, like Morse code, "shortwave" radio and a lot of other technology some folks assume are obsolete will be with us for a long, long time yet. Maybe we'll even get to work an aircraft mobile aboard a real dirigible again one day! Using CW of course... Ron AC7AC _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
