MEANWHILE, ON THE /co/ DIRIGIBLE...
>>84109219
corigible?
>>84109242
would that mean we are in corrigible?
Crashing this airship...
>>84109219
Why did Nazis invent a floating disaster waiting to happen?
>>84109315
WITH NO SURVIVORS
>>84109219
New Samurai Jack is gonna be great!
>>84109322
predates nazisim by like 30, maybe 50 years. Airships aren't even that dangerous if you do stuff like mix in gasbags with neutral gas with the volatile lifting gas so the expolsive stuff gets diluted
Guttentag, I vill be your captain for zis voyage.
>>84109322
Hubris, basically. It's also why they suppressed any news of the Hindenberg's explosion within the Reich for years.
brb, just going to go out on deck and have a smoke
>>84109219
Shit, I forgot my ticket!
So where's this dirigible goi-
Oh. OH.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH shit.
>>84109219
not sure which would be a bigger waste, leading a calvary of your best men armed with sabers and pistols in to enemy firing range or flying this into a middle of a dog fight
>>84111533
It's a shame both the Akron and Macon crashed. Flying aircraft carriers was a neat idea.
>>84109322
United States built two armed with machine guns and designed to be Aerial Carriers launching a wing of biplanes each. USS Akron and the USS Macon.
Unfortunately they still crashed due to weather conditions.
care for a cigarette /co/?
https://www.hybridairvehicles.com/aircraft/airlander-10
The Airlander is the current state of the art in airship technology.
>>84111721
She thicc
>>84109262
>>84111721
>>84111533
They were technically almost impossible to shoot down until incendiary ammo became a thing. Even after that you still could have used Helium but Germany didn't have a really viable source of that.
However, eventually bombers got better and fighters got longer engagement ranges so they lost their niche (being able to shit around at high altitude and engage at their leisure.)
>>84111678
They're still probably safer than a Shield Helicarrier.
>>84111762
Yeah I'm still confused about how they managed to bomb cities with them though... wouldn't having the hull punctured by artillery at least make them lose altitude real quick?
>>84109322
>implying you don't want to live in a world of airships and sky pirates
>>84111800
>>84111777
The difference between them and a simple flying balloon is that they have lots of these internal gas cells. Not only that but they also have a supportive skeleton so when they are punctured they don't just lose their shape and all the gasses rush out.
Instead the gasses would slowly leak out... and you just patch up the holes. Like how stabbing an orange through with a pencil doesn't cause a cup of orange juice to leak out.
Hell if you were really ballsy you might carry extra gas sacks and replace heavily damaged ones on the fly, like replacing a tire.
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>>84111721
God damn...
>>84111871
That's pretty cool, I wish I'd learned this kind of stuff in school instead of hearing about Molly Pitcher.
>>84111858
>>84111881
Every time I remember Talespin, I remember that Disney made an official AU where Baloo and friends fought against honest-to-god diesel-punkish sky pirates on a regular basis.
I wanted Bageera to show up piloting a spy jet so badly as a child.
>>84111881
>Firing the whole bullet/shell
70% EXTRA BULLET FOR YOUR MONEY!
>>84111925
There is also the fact that the gas cells would be fairly close to atmospheric pressure, further restricting the loss of lifting gasses. The downfall of the zeppelin as a weapons system was its extreme dependency on good weather and abysmal accuracy as a bomber. Despite that the USA used airships quite successfully in anti-submarine reconnaissance and warfare during WW2.
>>84109335
plenty of people survived that, though.
>>84111645
the sad part is that the designer urged the second ship to come in to correct the design flaw that crashed the first one. But the pilot and the navy wanted to see it fly around for longer. And it only happened in the first place due to meddeling and last minute design changes during the development process in the first place. Just sad.
>>84109219
No Ticket.
>>84113899
Goddamit fuck Bryan and Mike for pretending they could ever book Lin in the wrong
How fucking dare they book Toph like an asshole
>>84109477
100 to 150 years, if you want to split hairs.
>>84109322
The Americans refused to sell the them helium
>>84109795
The Hindenburg did infact have s smoking deck
>>84111768
Being naked woman in India is safer than SHIELD helicarrier.
>>84111881
>firing the entire round
that's not how it works, god damnit.
>>84111645
>>84113748
think about it, if this was deemed a success we could have shit like the aigaion today.
>>84113649
True and most of those that did die were ground crew hit by falling debris
Anyone know any good /co/-related World War 1 or 2 material? I mean animations about them not animations produced during them.
>>84116575
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley%27s_War
>>84112209
>nd abysmal accuracy as a bomber.
That didn't improve in aircrafts and didn't stop bombers at any point though.
>doesn't even have a face on it
