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Why aren't airships more common for airlift and replenishment?
They cost a hell of a lot less, more can be supported with a similar amount of people, they carry more and are more economical.
I understand planes when used for fast response. But continuous replenishment should be an airship only job.
>>30138542
>they carry more
I'm calling bullshit on that. Then again, I know jack shit about airships.
It looks like ass
>>30138560
Fucking good.
You'd rather it look like a cock, like a C-17?
>>30138542
I LIKE BIG BUTTS AND I CANNOT LIE!
>>30138542
Besides being incredibly slow and low altitude they have significant logistical issues. Mainly that that helium is incredibly good at not staying contained so modern airships require constant refilling.
>>30138542
big and slow as fuck even compared to things like the C17
>>30138577
ALL YOU OTHER PILOTS CAN'T DENY
>>30138542
That's a nice ass
>>30138542
Did you see a buttock or a penis?
>>30138560
Ayy
>>30138542
*Unzips*
>>30138573
only if its a feminine cock
>>30138542
HIGH TEST
>>30138599
What kind of dick looks like an ass?
>>30138580
Fucking this. My great great grandfather died in one of these monstrosities. Just really unprakjtical
>>30138599
It reminded me of this
>>30138632
did he fall out of it during WW2?
>>30138650
He ha heart attack. fucking helium im sure of it
>>30138542
>tfw got hard looking at an airship
Feels good
>>30138542
Is that your mom's ass or dildo OP, I can't tell.
>>30138648
This thread is now about mikasa's glorious ass.
>>30138795
its his mom's ass dildo
>>30138823
>>30138883
>>30138823
fuck off
>>30138933
No Mikasa's ass demands worship.
>>30138962
fuc off with your pathetic fantasies
>>30138542
>shtf scenario
>find an airship and customize it
>travel the world in an airship that has current technology with 1910/20s furnishings and luxury
>>30139011
just miserable
>>30138542
>oh boy an airship thread
>sees mikasa booty
>fuck it, /thread
>>30139011
Mikasa or gtfo
>>30138542
>>30139015
>a couple dickheads see your airship
>shoot your balloon full of holes
>can't stop and get it patched and refilled because nobody has a few thousand tanks of helium or hydrogen lying around.
>>30139440
Bullet holes are incredibly inefficient at causing leaks because the pressures involved are pretty damn low. I bet a single bullet hole would be indistinguishable from the average background loss of helium through diffusion. You'd probably need a few before you saw a spike in the data.
Plus if you knew you had a hole you can just send a drone out to patch that shit. Sure no-one does that now but I bet if it was a problem someone would just make a little robot that could crawl or fly along the ship and spray some fix-a-flat on a hole.
It looks like a thick ass, that just happens to be full of gas.
>>30139011
>Imizu
Yes
>>30138554
Depends entirely on their size, but there are airship designs that can carry more than any aircraft (including the C-5M and AN-225).
>>30139015
>use crane like the USS Macon/Akron
>fuck landing, fly small aircraft for resupply
We Crimson Skies now!
>>30138542
dat ass
>>30139518
>>30139975
>airship designs
>designs
The Hindenburg was as long as the fucking Titanic and STILL only had half the useful load the F-16 does. Dynamic lift >>>> buoyancy for anything other than loitering in one spot for a long period of time.
>>30140363
>fuel efficiency isn't a thing
>burn a shit load of jet fuel for 20,000 lbs
>retrofit solar panels and electric engines, lift 70 people for no fuel cost
>>30138542
THICK
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>>30140363
Hybrid airships like I'm talking about and what OP posted a pic of aren't designed to float with their max payload, but use VTOL or STOL, using vertical thrust for takeoff / landing and using aerodynamic lift during flight to assist the buoyancy.
The ML86X from Worldwide Aeros is the 500t concept; it'd be massive.
The one that they're actually going to build soon is a 66 ton payload 137m long airship.
Lockheed's also advertised a 50t payload airship.
>>30138542
Completely not feasible soon because we won't have any helium.
>>30138758
noone uses helium in airships
>>30138542
Cant tell if Tracer's ass or zeppelin.
>>30140515
You're right. They use much more stable hydrogen.
>>30138542
Can't handle rough weather, too slow to get around it, and can't go above it while carrying a useful payload. Airships suck.
>>30138542
>Why aren't airships more common for airlift and replenishment?
>They cost a hell of a lot less, more can be supported with a similar amount of people, they carry more and are more economical.
Uh because they are basically a giant ass bomb waiting to be set off by any incendiary round, lightning, or even the slightest amount of static
>>30141751
HELIUM
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>>30138542
>Let's use our dwindling and soon to be gone helium supply for something we don't really need
>>30140421
>fuel efficiency isn't a thing
It is a thing, and aerodynes are better at that too -- WAY better - while going almost ten times faster, at that.
Hindenburg:
>11 tons payload
>163 gal/hr @ 76 mph
>Fuel economy: 5.1 ton-miles per gallon
C-17:
>85 tons payload
>3,000 gal/hr @ 500 mph
>Fuel economy: 14.1 ton-miles per gallon
>>30140461
>Hybrid airships like I'm talking about and what OP posted a pic of aren't designed to float with their max payload, but use . . . aerodynamic lift during flight to assist the buoyancy.
Exactly. They're barely aerostats at all. In effect, they're just gigantic inflatable airplanes.
>>30138542
>Why aren't airships more common for airlift and replenishment?
Because all of this:
>They cost a hell of a lot less, more can be supported with a similar amount of people, they carry more and are more economical.
Is bullshit.
>>30141843
>What is no more national Helium reserve?
Helium will be prohibitively expensive to use for balloons and lift gas within our lifetime.
Fixed wing aircraft are actually more fuel efficient because they don't have to deal with the huge amount of drag that lighter than air aircraft do.
>>30138823
>>30138883
what does her butt smell like
>>30138542
>>30142020
>Hindenburg
Holy shit that's like comparing a fucking horse drawn wagon to a semi truck
>>30138542
If she a blimp I'm a blimp
they are slow?
>>30138542
Needs a bomb bay between the cheeks for maximum effect.
>>30138542
>They cost a hell of a lot less, more can be supported with a similar amount of people, they carry more and are more economical.
>sources: my ass
>I know more about military logistics than those working in military logistics
t. layman with severe delusions of grandeur
>>30141843
>Not getting the joke.
It's like you don't want to watch quality adult animated TV shows.
>>30138542
I... I am aroused...
>>30138573
>>30138585
I wont have you badmouthing the glorious C-17
>>30141751
I think about that episode everytime I see anything about airships
>>30138542
I can say without any regret I masturbated to that zeppelin
>>30144260
That's offset by the fact that drag increases quadraticly with airspeed.
http://nypost.com/2015/10/28/unmanned-military-blimp-on-the-loose-drifting-over-pennsylvania/
My buddy got hit on by a gay state trooper while he was out cleaning this up.
#Justnationalguardthings.
>>30138542
Because downcurrents during storms have killed almost every airship fielded by the US military
Because they're as slower than a plane and more vulnerable than a ship
Because transports don't need high idle times
Because that drone blimp that shit the bed and had to be shot down on it's cross country trek breaking shit with a mile of 3" steel mooring cable
>>30145197
that is the joke you fuckwit, the captain always corrects him by saying its helium
>>30144250
Yep. I would be interested to see nuclear tests that produced alpha particles in the form of helium. That's the only way I know of that we could get more helium, alpha decay.
>>30140515
The USS Akkron and Macon used helium, dumbass.
>>30144250
Methane is also usable lifting gas.
Paint the skin black and you can just use air.
I know why you made this thread, anon.
>>30138542
They use them for recon and spying you stupid fuck theyve used them since the 1800s non stop, they are used today in the middle east for that exact reason. Recon and spying
>>30138542
Too much ass
>>30141878
You're fucking retarded, helium doesn't just disappear in an airship, it goes back into the atmosphere and we can use it again
>>30138542
H I G H T E S T
>>30151724
>We can use it again
>Doesn't understand how ruinously expensive helium reclamation is
>Doesn't know helium is struck like natural gas in underground pockets
>>30138585
THAT WHEN A PLANE FLY IN WITH THAT ITTY BITTY SPACE AND THOSE LOUD PROPS IN YO FACE
YOU
TAKE
OFF
>>30151834
Also, solar radiation depletes the atmosphere of helium, with particles literally getting knocked away into space.
>>30138573
>not liking cock
What are you, gay?
>>30138542
:O
>>30148586
>Because that drone blimp that shit the bed and had to be shot down on it's cross country trek breaking shit with a mile of 3" steel mooring cable
That rules. What if you just released one of those in a hostile territory?
>Look, guys, just cut it out with the anti-american terrorism, and we'll get rid of that drone that keeps dragging a line through your town and breaking things. Maybe. To be honest, we can't really control it. It's just kinda there now.
>>30149253
Actually, what if you made a hot air balloon that does that, but uses engine heat to keep the air from cooling? I imagine a big ol' airship would need big honkin' engines for whatever props it uses to move, and for electricity generation for other things. Recycle the heat into keeping it aloft!
>>30138615
The kind not meant for this world, but one of dreams and splendor
