On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Onno Meyer wrote:
Johannes wrote:
Am i correct that with air ships it's easier to deliver or pick up cargo
or (competent) passangers without landing?
I don't think so. Loading while the airship hovers requires a drop of
ballast, unloading required either taking on ballast or valving lift gas.
For ordinary loading yes, but if you unload just one item (a basket with
one or 2 hardy ranchers and some equipment)? You put down a rope on a
whinch, and if you unload, the blimp goes up, but that is not really a
problem if it wants to go now anyway. Loading might be more of a problem,
because you don't want the basket to run into anything. So either the rope
needs to be long enough and the whinch fast enough (If it's really just
about the weight of 3 people with equipment you can demand ST rolls to get
off in time), or you need to drop ballast, or do both. But if you go there
for an expected pickup you can bring enough ballast.
Johannes
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