On 11 July 2014 06:22, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/10/2014 12:59 AM, LizR wrote: > >> Without claiming to be a wiser head, I will still say that you don't use >> 747s in a green economy! You use airships... And you reduce air traffic by >> getting almost everyone to telecommute. >> > > The trouble with airships is that they slow and they can't handle bad > weather. The Shenandoah and the Akron were destroyed stormy weather within > 3yrs of being built. The Macon suffered a structural failure mainly due to > a design fault. Only the Los Angeles, of the Navy's big airships, served > eight years and was decommissioned. The Los Angeles was built by Zepplin > and it took 81 hrs to fly from Germany to New Jersey. The Hindenburg, > which was the same size but used hydrogen instead of helium for buoyancy, > had a crew of 61 and carried 36 passengers. So a ticket was very expensive. >
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