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JackRiddler

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6. Seriously? A surveillance blimp in a warzone?

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sun Aug 14, 2016, 08:57 PM

Aug 2016

That's going to go well.

Tell me they want to use it for passenger flights, damn it. Or cargo. Something that might make sense in a New Energy world.

EDIT: Oh, I see, they gave up on the surveillance nonsense.

Well bon voyage. Hope it's not a scam like CargoLifter (tm).

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Maiden flight of giant helium-filled airship postponed [View all] Judi Lynn Aug 2016 OP

As long as a football field and they were going to use it in Afghanistan? longship Aug 2016 #1

It doesn't need speed, just altitude. Angleae Aug 2016 #14

"The Flying Bum" Warpy Aug 2016 #2

Holy smokes! Whoo. Not so attractive, then, is it? Thanks for the close up. n/t Judi Lynn Aug 2016 #5

ooh, dirty! JackRiddler Aug 2016 #7

Okay, beats the 747-8 for cargo capacity by 75 tons JackRiddler Aug 2016 #8

It's aptly named the USS KISS-MY-WHITE-ASS Kaleva Aug 2016 #9

I am strangely attracted to this blimp jpak Aug 2016 #10

Reminds me of awoke_in_2003 Aug 2016 #13

I don't know what you've done to me, but I haven't laughed this hard in years. I can't stop! NBachers Aug 2016 #11

Of all the shapes in all the world . . . God! Why is it so butt ugly? brush Aug 2016 #18

They discovered Led in the fuselage jpak Aug 2016 #3

It's cockamamie Kennah Aug 2016 #4

Seriously? A surveillance blimp in a warzone? JackRiddler Aug 2016 #6

Meanwhile, the price of helium continues to rise as supplies dwindle, Crash2Parties Aug 2016 #12

The Helistat was a larger (343 ft to 302 ft) prototype built by the US Forest Service PufPuf23 Aug 2016 #15

I can see it from my bedroom window The King of Prussia Aug 2016 #16

I like big blimps and I cannot lie! NurseJackie Aug 2016 #17

Maiden? Airship? Codeine Aug 2016 #19

Ah, that's a bit of a letdown.... OnDoutside Aug 2016 #20