Your silly strawman is obvious once again. I do understand its the only way you can keep up, however.
Looks like someone is embarrassed by his mistake.Your silly strawman is obvious once again. I do understand its the only way you can keep up, however.
Oh, so a small regional airline buys 10 and now youre proclaiming world revolution?If fuel costs are so trivial and these things are as pointless as you suggest why has an airline ordered 10 of them?
They aren't cheap and the decision will have gone through multiple sets of cost analysis studies before they placed the order.
Why are you right and they're wrong?
LOL doubling down on your moronic fallacy is moronic. But hey, keep being you.Looks like someone is embarrassed by his mistake.
Straw man.Oh, so a small regional airline buys 10 and now youre proclaiming world revolution?
I fly planes for a living, lol gonna love watching you explain the aviation industry to me.Did you forget the fact that these airships are several times slower than a jet? How do you even know if theyre going to use it like a regular airliner when taking a train trip would get travelers to their destination at the same amount of time with less risk/hassle?
HahahahahahahahahYou and Deuce obviously dont realize that airships are not a new tech just like electric cars arent, but hey you can keep believing in your neo-luddite delusions since its a free country.
LOL doubling down on your moronic fallacy is moronic. But hey, keep being you.
LOL riight. The way you proclaim these airships as some kind of newfangled tech you must fly Cessna-172s.I fly planes for a living, lol gonna love watching you explain the aviation industry to me.
I said nothing of the sort. Straw man. Pathetic.LOL riight. The way you proclaim these airships as some kind of newfangled tech you must fly Cessna-172s.
I have literally not remarked on speed.Their speed is around 130kph, while a Boeing 777 can go around 950kph. Heck, even high speed trains in Europe can go twice as fast as those blimps.
Do the math.
I see Goodyear's newest airships about once a week in the summer and the fall when they are used for football games. They fly right over the house and make a very distinctive sound. Its difficult to get clear video for more than a few seconds because of the many trees.Used to see them all the time near sporting events but I think they use drones now. I think I've seen one in the last 20-30 years.
Way back when I was flight instructing I remember the Goodyear blimp was repositioning through the area for some upcoming event. (golf tournament I think?) The tower controller told me to watch for the blimp as it was going to fly near the traffic pattern. I could see it right away, several miles away. Slowly approaching, but it had a strong headwind.Too slow, too large for the amount of payload, too subject to bad weather (heck they need massive hangars to protect them so the landing anywhere is only when weather is forecast to be favorable).
There massive size makes them extremely subjected to winds. Cross winds can easily blow them off course and strong winds be a massive challenge to control
Basically they are for sightseeing and that is really their limit of practical use. Yes some specialized applications from time to time when there winds are low but otherwise about as likely to make an impact on air transportation as the flying cars that morons keep investing in over the last century
They aren't even good as cruise ships as they cant even come close to competing on amenities. Take forever to get to your destination but aside from walking around a nit have nothing much to do. forget a pool/hot tub or water slide. Maybe you get a flying casino or fancy restaurant or maybe even nice sleeping cabins (not all three mind you)
Oh, so a small regional airline buys 10 and now youre proclaiming world revolution?
Did you forget the fact that these airships are several times slower than a jet? How do you even know if theyre going to use it like a regular airliner when taking a train trip would get travelers to their destination at the same amount of time with less risk/hassle?
You and Deuce obviously dont realize that airships are not a new tech just like electric cars arent, but hey you can keep believing in your neo-luddite delusions since its a free country.
LOL doubling down on your moronic fallacy is moronic. But hey, keep being you.
It might be a cool sightseeing outing, but not a way to get from point a to point B.
PoS lies in about 95% of his posts, so don't worry about it.Where did I say any of that crap?
I simply said I'm happy that a local company has sold 10 of them.
You keep putting words in my mouth and making arguments against things I never said and I've grown super tired of it. You seem desperate to start ann argument where there is none and I have no idea why but I'm done with you so I'm sticking you on ignore.
Feel free to make up some crap about what I'm supposed to have said though as you seem to enjoy that.
It'll definitely be a very niche market. Someone else mentioned the cruise ship comparison, it'll be more like that, I expect. Being more about the experience during travel than the travel itself.I’d be interested in these for local commuter hops if their flexible departure and arrival points allow for fast access, boarding and disembarkation.
And, obviously, a small number of them would likely pencil out for tourism purposes.
Its only a factor if one is a climate cult neo-luddite.
Your silly strawman is obvious once again. I do understand its the only way you can keep up, however.
Way back when I was flight instructing I remember the Goodyear blimp was repositioning through the area for some upcoming event. (golf tournament I think?) The tower controller told me to watch for the blimp as it was going to fly near the traffic pattern. I could see it right away, several miles away. Slowly approaching, but it had a strong headwind.
I completed the entire lesson before it ever arrived. It was like the Game of Thrones zombies as parodied on South Park.
Youre just crying foul because I beat you in a debate. too bad.I said nothing of the sort. Straw man. Pathetic.
I have literally not remarked on speed.
Where did I say any of that crap?
I simply said I'm happy that a local company has sold 10 of them.
You contradict yourself. Fuel costs obviously do matter, to any form of transport.
HahahahahahahaYoure just crying foul because I beat you in a debate. too bad.
They could serve as good alternatives for short domestic trips; depending on the size of the country of course. I am curious how they would fare in turbulent skies though; especially at 20,000 ft.As transport, airships are more comparable to cruise ships than to jet planes. They are great for sight-seeing.
I could see a nice day trip from Las Vegas to see the Grand Canyon, perhaps even a stop.They could serve as good alternatives for short domestic trips; depending on the size of the country of course. I am curious how they would fare in turbulent skies though; especially at 20,000 ft.
LOL well if you prefer taking a trip on something thats slower than a train, be my guest, because a train would save more on fuel, so youre doubly wrong.
Wrong again, your moronic logic just cannot handle the reality. Airships are not a new tech, and there was a reason why they never went into widespread use.No, the argument you want to make is that pilot wages would exceed fuel saved. But for that, you'd have to record some numbers and work out which number was bigger. Too much like effort for you, I suspect.
Wrong again, your moronic logic just cannot handle the reality. Airships are not a new tech, and there was a reason why they never went into widespread use.
Riight, show me an airship that can carry as much cargo as an Airbus A330. Go on.Too much trouble for you to calculate the pilot cost vs. fuel cost. Even though it should be simple: pilot cost will vastly outweigh fuel cost, for such small payloads. But why am I making your argument for you?
Airships could still do cargo, like boardwalks for alpine national parks, building materials for ski chalets, maybe some high-value agricultural produce. These particular airships don't need a mooring pylon, they can land on a field (or presumably on snow).
Though that is speculation, and calculating the economics would be more difficult. The obvious application of airships now is for sight-seeing.
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