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From the post: "The airship — its snow-white steampunk profile visible from the busy 101 highway — has taken drone technology such as fly-by-wire controls, electric motors and lidar sensing, and supersized them to something longer than three Boeing 737s, potentially able to carry tons of cargo over many hundreds of miles.

“It’s been 10 years of blood, sweat and tears,” LTA CEO Alan Weston told TechCrunch on the eve of the unveiling. “Now we must show that this can reliably fly in real-world conditions. And we’re going to do that.”"

Archive: https://archive.today/c1Z0i From the post: "The airship — its snow-white steampunk profile visible from the busy 101 highway — has taken drone technology such as fly-by-wire controls, electric motors and lidar sensing, and supersized them to something longer than three Boeing 737s, potentially able to carry tons of cargo over many hundreds of miles. “It’s been 10 years of blood, sweat and tears,” LTA CEO Alan Weston told TechCrunch on the eve of the unveiling. “Now we must show that this can reliably fly in real-world conditions. And we’re going to do that.”"

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[–] • 4 pts

They can propel the Pathfinder 1 at up to 65 knots (75 mph), although its initial flights will be at much lower speeds.

That's pretty impressive.

[–] • 3 pts

It would be interesting to see how these do. There are a few reasons why we have not been using blimps for travel for decades.

[–] • 0 pt

I feel like one guy with an elephant rifle and 10 shots could take the whole thing down. Am I wrong?

This seems to be a good technology for a better world.

[–] • 1 pt

Probably would not need even 10 shots and I am sure there are plenty of easier ways to take one down these days. I was thinking more along the lines of them being slow and having a small carry capacity for how god damn huge they are and if a big storm comes in you have no way to navigate them properly other than going to ground if you can.

On the other side.. For short distances that you would normally drive for 3-4 hours.. Having a calm ride on one of those for 3-4 hours while you have a great view and can just hang out or get some work done would not bother me.

[–] • 1 pt

The concept of airships is plain cool. Float in the air and you just need energy for propulsion, like the water but the whole planet is one body you can sail anywhere on any path. Just the damn complexity of making them float.

[–] • 0 pt

Epic bc HE natural replenishment is errrr well big bang ish.

Kinda need this noble gas but not in a huge balloon