LEMV is in Cardington

LEMV is now in the Cardington hangers, it will be tested for the next 12 months before first flights at the end of next year. (Source) This is not really the optimal situation, but it is better then allowing the blimp to just sit in a hanger forever.


I feel like we as Amaricans missed our opportunity to really innovate here. The Pentagon should have reconfigured LEMV itself, yet politics and MIC got in the way. Now instead of innovating, the government has gone into fire sale mode giving away all our innovations for $0.001 on the dollar.

The United Kingdom will no-doubt lead the way in airship development for the immediate future, something that will undoubtedly pay dividends when the airship revolution really starts to heat up.

Some Good News came out of the Government Shutdown, at lest for Airships.

Some good news for LEMV and HAV, bad news or U.S. taxpayers but that's not really anything new. LEMV has been sold back to HAV for $301,000, literally pennies on the dollar. According to the Army it would have been too expensive to keep LEMV in storage and undoubtedly thanks to the government shutdown the Army decided it would be best to, more or less, just give it away to HAV, who plans to use it for cargo operations in Alaska and Canada.

To me, this is not as bad as it sounds. Sure the US Government has proven to be totally incompetent with Tax Payer money and wasted a huge amount of money on a spy program that never went anywhere. But the government is spending $48 billion a year to protect us from "terrorists" which are less of a threat to your safety in the US then rattle snake bites and lighting strikes.

The truth is these spy programs have nothing to do with spying on "terrorists" and everything to do with suppressing the political uprising against the fascist bankers who have taken over our nation. I think I am going to write about this some more over on my other blog about the end of the Illuminati. This is a big win for freedom and liberty, because now instead of something we spent 300 million on being used ageist us as a weapon in a possible future civil war, it is now going to be used for peaceful cargo operations that I believe one day will help in saving the world from environmental destruction and economic terrorism.

The ability to move cargo is what makes a Hybrid Airship so versatile, it's use as a spy platform is less cost effective then traditional LTA craft. So the fact the LEMV will live on doing what it was born to do, is a good thing. The fact that it was American money that put it in the air, means the good old USA helped to get the 2ed airship revolution started again... although a bit by accident.

There are going to be political problems with getting another airship program started in the United States, as these spy blimp programs will undoubtedly be used as a reason to not pursue any more Hybrid Airship development by the US Government. That being said, LEMV will prove it was a good investment when it proves to be more then capable of delivering cargo in Canada and Alaska. Which may spark more investment by the government and corporations.

This might have been the best thing the US Government ever did to help Airships get off the ground again. We now have a working prototype that will demonstrate the effectiveness of Hybrid Airships, to deliver cargo in some of the most extreme locations. There are literally billions of dollars waiting to be invested into Hybrid Airships by mega corporations that need the logistical capabilities the Hybrid Airship can deliver. Yet, they are unwilling to invest because they are unsure of the technology and they would like to see a working prototype in action before they are willing to invest.

Now we have that prototype, and with it we are paving the way for Airships to rise again.

The future is looking good!

Aeroscraft begins flight testing following FAA certification

http://www.gizmag.com/aeros-gets-faa-approval-for-testing/28970/

Aeros Readies for First Test Flights.

The Los Angeles Times as a very interesting Bio on Igor Pasternak. I had no idea that people could die due to helium leaking into the gondola and suffocate the crew, defiantly something to be aware of for any future Blimp Captions.

You can also check out some Facebook photos of the Aeroscraft's outdoor ground testing. Things are looking good for the Aero's team, first flights should be accomplished before the end of the year.

As a little side note, I was on the Los Angeles times website and I noticed an article about the F-22 Raptor. It talked about the problems with military acquisition deals, which is something I have ranted about on this blog before.

Sky Tug has it's own Web Page Now.

Just an update for anyone interested, I have made a Web Page for the Sky Tug and have released Version 0.5, I'm about half way there to full release.

Check it out here: http://skytug.webs.com/

James May talks about Airships

This is not News, but I have been digging around on youtube for anything I haven't seen about Airships and thought this video was rather educational.

LEMV has been Deflated

InsideDefense.com reported back in June that LEMV has been deflated and is planed to be sold as scrap. The plan for HAV to buy the ship back apparently fell through.

"...when the Army in April offered to sell the hybrid airship back to HAV for $44 million -- a price calculated from federal acquisition regulations requiring renumeration for material costs -- the sum was more than the company could immediately muster, HAV business development director Hardy Giesler told InsideDefense.com.

     HAV countered by proposing a down payment of more than $10 million, followed by installment payments. That offer, however, was deemed [sic] "high risk" and "unacceptable to the government," according to John Cummings, spokesman for Army Space and Missile Defense Command, which managed the LEMV acquisition effort."

I'm surprised I missed this article, obviously not good news, especially for HAV, and when we consider that $400,000 worth of helium was probably just dumped into the atmosphere, it just keeps getting worse.

This is however not the end of airships, or a tragic end to the 2ed coming Airship Revolution. The government is still interested in Hybrid Airships for cargo and is making noises that they plan to acquire a few 66 Ton carrying Aeroscrafts for logistics. This is however probably the end of the Government's attempts to build Hybrid Airship ISR platforms, which is probably for the best.

Aero's "Might" Get More Money From Congrees.

In the latest NDAA, both congresses agreed in their bills to "[direct] U.S. Transportation Command and the Air Force Mobility Command to monitor progress in this area and report to the congressional defense committees no later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act on the status of developments in the commercial sector regarding hybrid airships that could be used to provide the capability identified by General Fraser, and to what extent the DOD could benefit from them."

Nobody is denying that the Aeroscraft was a success, and nobody in congress is willing to make a fuse about a technology that clearly represents the future of green aviation, This is good because it shows that any political pressure to stop airship developments, if there ever was any, has all but dried up.

No, now the only problem is that congress is in debt up to their eyeballs. The underlying cause being that the country has been robbed by offshore mega banks. Too bad we didn't spend any of that 26 Trillion the Fed gave to bailout the criminal banking mafia on airships, or jobs, or infrastructure, because now it looks like all congress can do is say, airships are a good idea, but we don't have any money to invest in the effort.

Hopefully the commercial sector will pick up where congress has left off, as congress is basically criminally negligent these days. It's almost surprising they even got this much right.

So we will see if there will be any money going to building airships for cargo transport. Fingers crossed.

Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/7/prweb10948326.htm

Airship Update! (playlist)

I made a playlist of airship related videos on YouTube, I figure it's something nice to play when I walk away from my computer.

3rd Cargo Airships for Northern Operations Workshop kicks off

So the 3ed Annual workshop for Cargo Airships kicks off tomorrow, and it looks like there might be some revaluations about Lockheed's Sky Tug. Last year not much happened other then the usual suspects came together and all agreed airships was a good idea. Lets hope this year with Aeros having completed it's prototype, and Lockheed still working on their own design that we will get some good news out of the workshop this year.

Hers is a link to their website:
http://event.arc.nasa.gov/airships/2013Workshop

Oh where has my Sky Tug gone?

So, a while back, I got banned from X-Plane.Org for being a 9-11Truther, and with it, all my files for the stuff I had worked on are no longer on the Org and nobody can download them.

I had thought of starting my own website, but I realized I don't really wanna deal with the hassle unless I got something that's good to put up. Trying to find a place to host my files I realized today I can upload them to Mega, the new encrypted FTP server from Kim Dot Com and share the files from there.

So here they are, they include Version 0.4 of my Lockheed Martin Sky Tug, the resource files used to build the Sky Tug, and KMRY Monetary (Originally created by Eric McCloud for FSX.) You can download them here:

Edit: I forgot to mention the Sky Tug works with both X-plane Version 9 and 10, KMRY I made for X-plane 10 but it might work in Version 9.

Sky Tug Download.

Sky Tug Resource Files Download.

KMRY Monterey Download.

I have heard that the Sky Tug is sill under construction at Lockheed, maybe we will see it fly by the end of the year?


Edit: The Sky Tug now has it's own website www.skytug.webs.com get the latest version there.

Gage Road chnaged name to Aeros way

There has been some big news in the world of Airships. Aeros has announced it plans to build a fleet of 24 airships in the 66 to 250 ton range, and today they are currently at the Air Cargo Europe Convention looking for customers. Aeros isn't planning to sell their airships yet, as the support networks needed to keep these airships running is somewhat complex. But they will be leasing these 24 airships to clients, with Aeros supplying the crew and maintenance crews needed to keep these boats afloat.

In other news the Monticello City Council has voted to rename Gage Road to Aeros Way, which is a nice symbolic jest. Maybe 20 years from now Aeros Way will be a hot spot for Airship culture and innovation.

It's great to see that the Aeroscraft is really taking off as a future airship platform, they are clearly the best competitor. HAV and Lockheed are lacking behind now and Aeros is probably on a crash course with destiny at this point. HAV might pull itself back together and get back into the race, but I wonder if Lockheed is even building the Sky Tug anymore, at this point? It's hard to say with Lockheed because everything they do is super-secret and they could have unofficially canceled the Hybrid Airship program when they realized they couldn't get any customers and Aeros was far ahead of them, but last news I head was that the Sky Tug is still under construction. So we will see.

I think it would be a mistake for any of these airship companies to pull out of the race at this point, even Lockheed. As the problem with lake of customers has very little to do with the actual market that exists and needs this technology. The lack of customers is because the vast majority of people don't know a lot about airships, and as a result everything they ever heard about airships is usually bad. Hindenburg, Macon, Akron, etc. It's all bad, and most people don't understand the complexities that contributed to why these airships went down.

When I talk to people about airships, very few are aware that most airships don't have VTOL capabilities, and hardly anyone knows about the complex nature of buoyancy management. They've never even heard the term pressure altitude, and they have no idea what types of these issues are solved with the Hybrid Airship design.

So the customer base, most of which exist in the 3ed world, still believe that airships are inherently dangerous, and are less willing to invest because of their belief these new airships will ultimately end in failure. They would rather stick with helicopters or airplanes even though these new airships are arguably more safe. As a result the real market to sell airships to is huge!

Once people realize how much better these new airships are over the airships of yesteryear, they will see the potential and there will be an absolutely gigantic market that will open up. Bigger I believe then the current aviation market, as once people realize these new airships are safer then airplanes people who are afraid to fly will want to fly in airships. Airships will become the new stranded in luxury air travel and they will explode in popularity like someone had just invented the first ever sea going boat.

Companies like HAV, Lockheed, Solarship, and Aeros all stand to benefit from this coming airship revolution and their is more then enough market to be shared between all of them. It's just going to be initially hard to get there, but well worth it. But it's a catch 22, one of these companies needs to prove airships work to build investor confidence in order to get the investor capitol to build the airships. That's really the hardest part and it's why airships haven't gotten off the ground in that past.

Lockheed defiantly has the sex appeal factor when it comes to their Skytug and I believe that would give them an initial boost, but they need to be willing to risk it big and build the thing to prove it works in order to get their market to open it's eyes. That's what Aeros has done and now they are naming a street after them!

So we shall see.

I just wanna add that it's been hard to keep up with airships as there has been so much happening the conspiracy world it's been overwhelming. I mean just check out what's going on in free energy. Not to mention the IRS and the Boston Bombing. It's been really hard to focus on just airships.

"Other disposal options for the LEMV also exist" -U.S. army Space and Missile Defense

According to The Montreal Gazette their is still a possibility that LEMV will be sold back to HAV for use in Canada's north as a cargo demonstration platform.

"We can probably carry four or five tons." Hardy Giesler, HAV's business development director, said yesterday in a telephone interview with Gazette.

This is good news,  I had assumed that at this point LEMV was probably already deflated and put into storage. But perhaps that's not the case.

Releasing that much helium into the atmosphere is grossly wasteful in my opinion, and to not use LEMV for something else after it has already been constructed just shows that our military no longer has the creative intelligence that it once did. It's like saying back in the stone age "Well we built the worlds first ship, but we don't know what to use it for, so we are just going to take it apart and throw it away."

I mean, I'm sure anyone of my readers could think of a more productive use for LEMV then dismantling and dumping. What happened to the time when the US government was pioneering the concept of an airship-aircraft carrier? No one else could do it, not even the Germans. Yet, we did it, and we didn't care that it was dangerous.

It seems the U.S. Government is in sorry shape these days, it has more or less broken it's contract with the people and no longer stands for the ideals upon which it was founded.  In all real measure we are teetering on the brink of collapse. The fact that HAV, the manufacture, had to be the one to point out that they could use LEMV for cargo operations is a testament that our government is no longer thinking long term about anything, it's now starting to just react to it's economic disposition with nee-jerk budget saving measures.

Proof to that, is when FAA cuts hit and flights were delayed for 3 hours, congress passed a bill fully funding the FAA. Of course the problem with that is that they now need to take away more funds from other programs, which in turn means it's only a matter of time before another budget crisis hits, or multiple budget crisis hit at the same time, and congress reacts with the same nee-jerk reaction.

There is only a few places this kinda behavior can take us, all of which are bad. What's most likely to happen here is that we are just simply going to default on our debt, which might cause hyper-inflation and total economic collapse but it might not as well. Barring that, the other most likely possibility I see is that congress is going to keep on funding programs that they consider "necessitates" by cutting all social services, which will lead to an armed revolution by the lower class.

I'm interested to see how this situation turns out for the FAA, which Senator Jey Rockefeller claim's has "no room" for budget cuts. What's going to happen at the end of the year when the FAAs budget concerns pop back up again? For that matter, what is going to become of air traffic control in a future without government? I think what's really going on here is that the middle and upper classes might actually think about revolting if they are forced to deal with any more flight delays at the hands of government, so congress passed a bill funding the FAA to try and keep a revolt by the upper class at bay.

So consider this, dose the FAA really make us safer? What would the world be like without any regulation over human powered flight? Would it really be so much more dangerous? Or is it more dangerous to have blind faith in a dying institution that dose everything in the name of our safety and yet has no future?

I see a world after the government completely collapses where flying becomes the ultimate expression of libertarian adventurism. A world where you no longer need to fallow any government regulation and pay bureaucrats to certify you and your airplane to be able to fly. Instead flying becomes anarchistic and IFR standards are more or less eradicated.

If we lived in that kind of world already, the Aeroscraft wouldn't be sitting in some hanger in southern California waiting for the FAA to say it's ok to fly, and neither would LEMV. Maybe you believe the FAA makes us safer, but how can you be sure that people would not keep the same level of safety if there was no regulations at all? I think a common misconception is that if there was no law to make sure that airplanes are flight worthy, everyone would forgo flight inspections. Similarly some people believe that if it was not a crime to smoke marijuana that everyone would suddenly smoke weed. This logic a been proven to be false, and I think this applies to the FAA as well.

Regardless of what you think, the FAA needs to become more efficient and less restrictive, or in the very near future their wont be an FAA anymore, or a US Government for that matter.

Middle Eastern Sovereign Wealth Fund Looking to Finance Network of Airship Services

This article just makes my head hurt.

Apparently, a sovereign wealth found of the middle eastern type, is looking at starting the first network of airship services aimed at transporting passengers around the UK.

They sound rather ambitious, claiming that they will have their first services ready by the end of the year. With a 100 passenger airship making all day trips between South Wales and London at speeds of 150 Miles per hour.

Yeah, uhm, good luck with that.

Not to sound pessimistic, this idea I admit is a really good one, and the market is most defiantly there. The UK is in dire need of some new type of transportation system, and Airships are perfect for their situation. Yet, I don't see any real possibility of this happening in 9 months. The Airship they are talking about using doesn't even exist yet, which means that no matter how much money you have it is going to take at lest 12 mouths to build this airship, and then their will be all the regulatory issues with certification, and the regulatory roadblocks that will inevitably show up because they are trying to do this in the UK.

It's far more likely that, if they are legitimate, they will be up and running by as early as 2015-2017, rather then by the end of this year.

I have a lot of questions, not lest of which is who is this middle eastern sovereign wealth fund and how much money are they going to invest? The way they are talking this must be one of those billionaire oil sheiks looking to create his own airship empire. Which makes sense as even if everything goes belly up with this UK transportation deal, they can just re-purpose their airships for oil work on their oil fields.

Usually I'm not a huge fan of what the super rich wast their money on, but in this case, I'm obviously biased. If they are investing more then a billion dollars then I do believe they will be successful with at lest launching their service. But if they are planing to build an airship empire, they would really need to be investing about 30 billion to get a small fleet of passenger airships.

The return on investment will be at lest 10 years down the road on a project like this, so whoever is doing this, they must be doing it because they really love Airships, to be willing to spend so much to get so little in return. In 40 years the return on investment will be rather high, but most investors are not willing to wait around that long. So someone is looking to put a lot of their life into this, and whoever they are they are gonna need a lot of money to do it, and they just might have that money, but we don't know.

My other big question is weather or not these will be hybrid airships from HAV. It's logical to assume that they will be hybrid airships as that makes the most logical sense, but with big money, it's never safe to assume anything. They could be considering using regular LTAs which would mean a lot less cargo and a lot more trouble on the ground. Hybrids just make sense for transportation of cargo and people from point to point trips, LTAs are better for surveillance and staying still for a long time.

Whatever the case is, I sure hope this doesn't turn out to be some type of inverter scam as that's the last thing the Airship business needs right now. But, if this is the real deal, then it looks like the middle east will be the first to capitalize on revolution in airships. This will probably lead to an entire new industries developing as airlines will dump their routs of 500 miles or less in favor of airships that will be much more economical for short trips with frequent stops.

I feel like this is a good thing.

Solarship to Conquer Canada's North, 2.2M Funded!

I missed this 5 days ago, but I found out about it on Solarship's facebook page.

It seems Solarship has gotten 2.2 million in funding to develop Canada's North. This is excellent news, as Solarship takes the concept of Hybrid to a whole new level compared to other Hybrid Airships that all run on some type of fuel, usually diesel. This sets the stage for Solarship to have a very prominent presence in the hybrid airship market in the future. Not only that, but with technological development in the next 20 years, Solarship has the potential to be a sort of a free energy technology.

The largest Solarship on their website, called a Nanuq, has a Max range of "unlimited" when powered by only solar power with 12 tons of cargo. You can in theory take 12 tons of cargo anywhere in the world without needing to land, ever, and all you need to pay for is maintenance costs and supplies.

That has very world changing implications. Solarship's could become the worlds first practical free energy transportation solution. Even the smallest Solarships can travel 310 miles without any fuel, per day, and with fuel can go 1500 miles for nice global reach. That is if we go by hopping from place to place and land to camp for the night, traveling only by day. But in time technology will make it so even the little solarships have unlimited range, and the bigger airships can take more cargo without fuel.

This will cause northern economies to boom in the next 20 years, places like Anchorage Alaska will become a hot spots for Airship spotting and Airship culture, I predict. Because the economy will be so supercharged by Airships, that the Airships will become something of popular cultural phenomenon up their in the north.

Which will create a whole new generation of Northern Airship People.

Which makes me wonder if I already know what they'll look like?

Investors unwilling to bet on airships?

It's clear that any airship project currently has a huge upfront cost for production. This and the fact no airship company has built a production prototype for a cargo airship is what is currently holding investors at bay. Hybrid Air Vehicles is currently looking to secure funding for it's Airlander 50 production prototype, while the Canadian government is kicking it's heels as to what to do about setting up cargo airships for Canada's North.

The current feeling is that because no one is willing to invest in airship development, the government should wait before investing itself. This doesn't take into consideration the globule down turn thanks to the 2008 banker bailouts that was shown to accomplish nothing for GDP growth, and it also doesn't take into consideration the fact that there has never been a production ready hybrid-airship in the history of the world, so of course initial investment costs are high and investors are weary. They are not willing to risk investment money because they don't have that much money to invest or the time to wait around.

We are talking hundreds of millions of dollars, which is something very few people have handy in the United States in 2013. If it was the 80s or 90s, there might be billions of dollars of available capitol willing to invest in hybrid-airships, unfortunately thanks to De-industrialization, we no longer have these types of investors willing take these types of risks, instead investors are buying more proven air platforms as they present less risk and are built on production lines, so they have a much lower initial investment cost.

Helicopter sales are up some 21% in 2012, which clearly shows the market for VTOL capable air platforms is in high demand. The only reason they are going for Helicopters over hybrid airships here has little to do with the capabilities and more to do with the cheap price of helicopters compared to hybrids.  Helicopters might also be able to do air crane jobs in tighter spaces, but hybrid airships are far safer and could probably do 99% of those air crane jobs that helicopters are taking up on a mass scale. And that's with the added benefit of being 10 times cheaper to operate, and having 10 times the range. On top of this Hybrid Airships are Worlds easier to fly then Helicopters, which should translate into training costs significantly lower then that to train a helicopter pilot. 

So why aren't investors buying hybrids like crazy? Well, it comes down to the fact that currently it will take decades for investors to get back their investments on any hybrid designs. Even if they had them working every day producing $25,000 of net worth per day, it would take 44 years to make $400 million, which is about how much it would cost to build one Hybrid Airship from HAV right now.

Helicopters cost something like 3 to 10 million dollars for a nice one. And if we imagine it fulfilling the same $25,000 per day job, it can pay itself off in less then a year. It will burn more fuel and be more expensive in the long run but it's a lot better to start making a profit in a year, instead of 44 years. Which is what is attracting investors to buy so meany helicopters in the first place.

Obviously the price of hybrid airships needs to come down before investors will be interested, but how much can the price come down? If Hybrid Airships cost 10 million a pop, the Airship revolution would happen tomorrow. But that's unlikely unless these hybrid airships are put on assembly lines, and that can happen only after going into commercial production. Hopefully when these hybrid airship go into production, costs will be cut by as much as 75% which is really what is needed before they can compete with helicopters for world dominance of the markets sling load operations. As then we are looking at 10 year return on investment, with exponentially greater profits then helicopters, after that 10 year decade is up. These are the kind of numbers investors would be willing to wait around for, but until they can expect a reasonable return on investment within the next decade, they will remain uninterested.

LEMV is dead, at lest that's what they want you to think!

I have a bad feeling about this. There is little doubt the nation is in a lot of trouble, and it's understandable that these airship programs are getting axed because there is little political will now to continue these programs with no budget. But if you look at my profile, you'll notice I have another blog called Upreising: End of The Illuminati, where I talk about the shadow government getting exposed in mainstream media. It's time I told you all about Airships the Illuminati and the New World Oder and how they are all tied together.

I have been trying to keep these two blogs unconnected to each other as I don't want to alienate those who don't believe in conspiracy theories when all they are interested in is airships. But unfortunately with another civil war growing in this country and with the timing of these cancellations: Blue Devil and LEMV are both conveniently caned when they are just about finished and ready to be deployed on the American people. I am morally obligated to inform my readers of what I think is going on.

If you don't believe in the Illuminati or the shadow government, let me get you up to speed. In 2009, a Swedish scientific study proved the existence of the Illuminati, they didn't say the Illuminati was real, but the evidence is clear. The finical institutions of the world: Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Bank of America, City Bank, UBS, etc, have indirect control of 80% of the worlds gross domestic product. What's more, when we tie in the facts about the LIBOR scandal the US department of justice has declared that bankers are above the law and cannot be prosecuted even when they launder billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels and Al-Qaeda, it's literately mass murder! And the JD claims it's because "they are too systemically important" which if that's even true (It isn't),  it is even more true after the bailouts of 2008 which was supported fully by our congressman in government.

The cracks in the armor are there for anyone to see, if you still don't think the illuminati (Or at lest something like it) dose not exist, you must have your eyes closed at this point. These bankers are all getting exposed left and right as lairs and frauds! And don't even get me started on the Vatican! If you wanna know more about this I suggest you watch Thrive, which basically covers the subject with facts.

So getting back to airships, what's the Illuminati got to do with airships? Well if you watched Thrive you know the Illuminati kill anybody who makes a free energy machine. Why? Because with free energy they are no longer in control of the lives of the population. The root of the Illuminati's power is the purchasing power of the US dollar. Our belief (mind control) that the dollar has value, is what gives it valve. Objectively, money is worthless, it has no real world value save it's use as scrap paper. With free energy, money would need to become something that has real value like batteries or gold.

The same is true for airships, which is why I believe the Illuminati blew up the Hindenburg. Airships are too much of a liberating technology. With an airship, you have a mobile home that can travel anywhere in the world, delivering goods, or be used as a sky crane. They can be used for any job you would use a boat, a helicopter and a airplane to accomplish. They are probably the most liberating technology second only to spaceships. This is why the Illuminati cannot allow people to have uncontrolled access to airships.

So when the Hindenburg blew up, not only did it kill off airships future as a weapon of world peace, but it also killed off the idea of using hydrogen as fuel. Any gasoline engine can run on hydrogen, but engineers won't use it because storing the hydrogen fuel is too dangerous. Why is it too Dangerous you ask? The Hindenburg.

This is like saying we cannot build buildings with steel because building 7 was taken down by "fire damage", the only high-rise building EVER to come down due to fires damage I should mention.

The Illuminati wanna take over the world, they control your life already, and they wanna keep everything pleasurable to themselves. They have insured that the only fuel used is patrol based by controlling a monopoly on energy distribution. And they keep this monopoly going by killing anyone who gets in their way. We don't use Coal, Natural Gas and Nuclear Energy because they are the most efficient energy systems. We use these energy source because they are intentionally inefficient. Coal and Nuclear Energy need massive infrastructure and industries to support and use. Natural gas is used primarily because it's there. The last thing the Illuminati wants is something like Cold Fusion or over unity motors, that can produce electricity for almost nothing, and can be deployed anywhere in the world. It completely obliterates their web of control that they have been weaving in secret for the last 100 years.

When you realize this fact. Ask yourself what could the world do with airships and how would it effect this Cartel? Airships would insure an uninterruptible flow of supplies that could not be controled by any one person or group. It's nothing the illuminati want or need, and thus just like with free energy they are insuring airships don't make it to commercial markets, so that "they" remain mostly in control of the worlds distribution of supplies network.

Thus, because of what I have stated above the military is mostly uninterested in airships for cargo operations. They are more interested in airships for spying because spying on the American people is what they are going to turn their eyes to now. LEMV is not a good platform for spying, this was known even before the contract was awarded. But Hybrid airships offer too much benefit. You can see by the Army's actions what the Illuminati is planing, they want to use airships and hybrid airships for spying only. Which is why all these airships are drones, because they don't want humans in control of them. They wanna keep the airships for themselves while the rest of us get spied on and treated like surfs from their blimps which we have no control over.

So I don't trust the government at all when they say they have canceled LEMV. They built the thing in the first place to spy on the Amarican people for the upcoming civil war between the Amarican people and the Illuminati, that's what these Spy Blimps are really all about.

CBS News: "Airships to lift off again? Firm engineers comeback"

CBS news gets to go for a quick test flight of the Aeroscraft, and has a well written commentary about the past and future of airships. This report has the possibility of going viral, I hope the fact the Vatican has a lightning machine doesn't top this story.

The future of passenger air travel?

What if you could fly at 32,000ft, going 750 mph for as long as the sun is up, using solar energy to power massive turbofan engines?

It's sounds in impossible, but the concept being put forwerd by French industrial designer Daphnis Fournier is not just possible, it's actually practical thanks in part to hybrid airship design principles.

In this case, the designer is essentially talking about building a scaled up version of the same concept as that of the Solarship, but it would be used for high altitude, high speed passenger air travel instead of humanitarian relief. There is really nothing technically speaking that says this cannot be done, the only issue I see is the claimed 750 mph, I imagine the turbofans on this thing would need to be massive and power hungry to achieve that kind of speed, but even if it get's half that speed it's still worthwhile investment for the airline industry.

What would make it even better is if the 4 turbofan engine's thrust could be vectored down to give the craft true VTOL capabilities like other hybrid airship designs out there. Maybe Daphnis isn't aware of the other hybrid airship projects out there, or he just believes it's impractical to give this thing VTOL capabilities, which may be true for all I know. It might not have enough helium in it's cell to lift the craft even with the thrust of those massive turbofans vectored down. Most hybrids are built to have the helium support most if not all of their empty weight. This one might not generate enough combined lifting power to takeoff vertically. It could still have engines vectoring up to 60 degrees in that case for a slower stall/takeoff speed, but would mean it would still need a runway.

Do you believe the Aeroscraft will have full VTOL at max payload?

Now that I feel a little silly after LEMV failed to deliver near it's capabilities in terms of endurance, I have felt somewhat skeptical of airship designers claims lately. One such claim by currently trending worldwide Aeros corporation is that their Aeroscraft will be able to takeoff vertically with maximum payload on all versions. I can tell you already this is one claim I would not relay on, it's probably an embellishment of the facts, a little white lie to sell the Aerocraft to investors. Like maybe it can take off vertically with max payload, but only under the condition of little or no fuel, which is probably closer to the case I'm thinking.

The claim on their website that the Aeroscraft could takeoff vertically with 500 tons is the one that sounds really fantastic, I just can't imagine them putting an engine on it that's powerful enough to lift that much weight without being too heavy itself. According to what I have read in the media, the Pelican's (Dragon Dream) internal bouncy system is only able to displace 2,000- 4,000 pounds of lifting capability. That indeed dose make it revolutionary in terms of airship technology, but I have now learned from Russia Today that the Pelican only has 365 horsepower engines for a combined total of 1095 horsepower. If the Pelican is indeed only half the size of the ML866 and has a maximum lifting capacity of 10 tons, this makes it possible to take off vertically but just barely. The ML866 and ML868 could take off with maximum payload and some fuel, but the ML86X taking off with Max payload would need 54,740 combined horsepower.

That's just about half the horsepower of this diesel engine which weighs in at 2,300 tons. So if the engines are diesel which makes sense for airships, that's about 1,150 TONS of engine! Twice what the specification's claim it's cargo capacity is, and we are not factoring in the weight of fuel or the weight of the frame. the Pelican's weighs about 16 tons including engine weight. So scaling that up by 50, the ML86X should weigh in at 800 tons with engines. Now aviation diesel engines are lighter then marine diesel engines. The best diesel aviation engine I have heard about can give 500 horsepower and only weighs 800 pounds, so if we scale that up to meet the demands of the ML86X that gives us only 44 tons of engine now, which makes the job very double, but what are the complications in making an aviation diesel engine that can deliver 18,247 Horsepower and only weighs 6 tons? Can it even be done today? This dose not sound like an easy engine to make, and realistically I imagine the real weight of the engine will come in somewhere between these two extremes. So the average of these two numbers is 597 tons, and taking into consideration that the engine will fall more into aviation diesel category rather then the marine diesel category, lets say the engine weight of all engines will come in at around 300 tons.

With this weight we figure the frame weighs about 500 tons, the engines weighs 300 tons, and it can take off vertically with 500 tons. That is again, very difficult, but possible. However now the problem is fuel. These engines are going to consume huge amounts of fuel, especially in a maximum throttle vertical takeoff, or hover. So while it's all well and good if you want to hover for 3 minutes with 500 tons, but how much fuel are you going to need to hover for 20 minutes? An hour? Even if we imagine that it's getting the great rate as that diesel engine I posted above, that gives us 1696.94 gallons of diesel fuel consumed per hour, or 6 tons of fuel per hour at 75%. Now in a hover the engines will need to be at or very close to maximum output. That means we can estimate an extra 66% fuel consumption rate or 9.1 tons of fuel consumed per hour in a hover. That's not a deal breaker, yes it will be able to hover with 500 tons, but how much of the weight is going to need to be fuel?

The claim on their page is that the ML86X will be able to take 500 tons, 5,300 nautical miles at a speed of 100 knots. That means the ML86x will spend 53 hours to get there and use 318 tons of fuel! There is no way it's going to be able to take of vertically with that and 500 tons, and 800 tons of airship, it's just not possible. It might be able to take off, but it will need to take off conventionally, without VTOL. Which is probably where the embellishment of the facts rests.

This page makes it seem like the Aeroscraft can take off with full VTOL, at full payload and go maximum range, which unless the engines do come in at 44 tons, this is simply untrue. You can ether take 500 tons, 5,300 nautical miles without VTOL, or you can hover 500 tons of cargo for a few hours, not both.

Ultimately I'm sure this also applies to the ML866 and 868, but to a lessor degree as smaller airships benefit more from aerodynamic lift.

Petition to RECOMMISSION THE RIGID AIRSHIP AIRCRAFT CARRIER PROGRAM.

I have started a petition to recommission the Airship Aircraft Carrier program:
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Sign it, if it's not too much trouble.

Best photo of Aeroscraft Prototype

It's not every day an Airship is born, this photo captures the moment better then any I have seen so far, and also reminds me of those old photos we would see of airships being built during the first age of airships around the turn of the 20th century.

Thinking about it now, this airship has an uncanny resemblance to that of the Hindenburg. It looks like it's made out of the same materials and it even has the same red color on the lettering "Dragon Dream" which I assume is the crafts name, although I have been told that is not the case.

Maybe this is because airship technology has been stuck in 1936 for so long that when it got picked up again that's all they had to work with; The Technology really got hindered by the Hindenburg (chuckle ^_^)! Thus, maybe it's not surprising that the technology in 2013 looks the same as that of where it left off in history in 1936.