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The return of airships?

 
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:23 am    Post subject: The return of airships? If a post contains some illegal issues you may abuse on it - just click Abuse and fill the form Reply with quote
Back in January I suggested in this folder that

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I think if air-transport companies were at all serious about reducing carbon emissions they ought to just get rid of fuel-powered aviation altogether and bring back Zeppelins.

At the very least Zeppelins ought to be an available option for the air-travelling public alongside trains and planes. It's rather premature to automatically assume they might be unpopular. Almost no-one remembers the Hindenburg disaster these days.


See: Virgin plans world first biofuel flight in Feb (post 2)

These guys are already doing tours above London:

http://www.zeppelintours.com/#/airshipflight/4521248673

What are the chances they'll be operating commercial flights from London to Dublin by 2012?
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:37 pm    Post subject: If a post contains some illegal issues you may abuse on it - just click Abuse and fill the form Reply with quote
More commentary here from Sean Dodson at the Guardian News Service:

New generation of 'hybrid airships'
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