Airships are making a bit of a comeback, at least up here. There are a couple of companies that have designed (and built scale working prototypes) airships for Northern exploration and supply (ie: the oil-drilling industry) and First Nation (ie: indigenous tribes) that are cut off from civilization during the summer/winter. (Yes, a community CAN be cut off in the summer, especially if the only "road" is a frozen river or lake)...
They figure it will be more cost-effective flying in supplies with multiple airships than with helicopters. Plus, airships can hover, and have MUCH greater range than choppers. I have really high hopes for their further development.
anyone who's seen any of Miyazaki's films would agree
I mean, dirigibles and blimps are funny, but there is definitely a non-sarcastic part of me that would love to see more of those things--unlike furries beasts, man was meant to look skyward.
yeah, I have a feeling that surveillance expenditures in Baghdad and on the Rio Grande might be taking a nosedive shortly, and that's where these things are used apparently
I once visited the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen. (The place where the infamous Hindenburg and her sister ships were built.)
Airships can be really fascinating!
I've seen one of the United States [redacted]'s old airship hangars and god damn they are large
I think those suckers are a lot more survivable in a day and age when we can predict the weather with fairly high certainty 48-24 hours in advance, that's what usually killed 'em.
That shark was just bloated with the wrong substance. It should have been helium instead. A leak, and your only problem is a squeaky voice. (I had used that in steampunk gorgon once, maybe I bring the comic back.)
Grinder$ coffee mugs and more!
"TNT"
same fuckin' thing--there's no cryin' in the Boom Boom Room
curvetastic T&Aselling abilities.They figure it will be more cost-effective flying in supplies with multiple airships than with helicopters. Plus, airships can hover, and have MUCH greater range than choppers. I have really high hopes for their further development.
I mean, dirigibles and blimps are funny, but there is definitely a non-sarcastic part of me that would love to see more of those things--unlike
furriesbeasts, man was meant to look skyward.Airships can be really fascinating!
I think those suckers are a lot more survivable in a day and age when we can predict the weather with fairly high certainty 48-24 hours in advance, that's what usually killed 'em.
you gotta stop sending me these fucked up bits of inspiration