AIRSHIPS: DESIGNED FOR GREATNESS

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Cst zeppelins are shit
Avoid at all cost

Even go schwalbe if you want a "baloon tire"

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Notice room at the tail section.
This airship was armed with 13 .30 cal machine guns by the way, as a safety measure.

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Soaring through the sky, 3.15 times the length of a 747

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Comfy beds, you don't see that on an airliner.

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Even the crew bunks were comfier then modern passenger airliner seats

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Walking through the internal hull of the airship.

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Captain

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>>944995

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Planning out the route.

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At the steering wheel

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>>945000
>>944999
All these trips and dubs >>944988
>>944977

This thread is blessed.

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Chilling out with the mates

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Dining in an airship while soaring through the sky at 900 feet.

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Nice view downwards, cruising at 80 mph

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Muh 30 deaths

>>944977
>>944986
>>944990
Moffet field? Pretty sure that's Hangar 1 under construction in the background.

I didn't know that they where so spacious inside.

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My great grandfather took these.

>>945343
nice

>>945348
Can read more here http://www.afn.org/~afn42211/genealog/sterner/hindenburg/

I would book a cross Atlantic trip on one of these in an instant, depending on the cost. I'd pay what, $3,000 a seat?

>>945351

Your dad seems like he's got a lot of time on his hands.

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http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2016-04-12/royal-naming-for-flying-bum-airship/

>>945634
Not my dad

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No thread is safe-

But to also contribute-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbvqXXr-w94

>>944997
>>945001
I love the holes drilled into every piece of steel to save weight. It's a purely structural feature but it looks like a deliberate piece of decoration.

>>945738
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>>945632
I think my favourite spot would be the lower fin tai
comfy
Also the safest place in a crash
(all 4 crewmen there survived the Hindenburg crash)

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http://www.thedreamengine.co.uk/heliosphere/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6UDny87LeQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOWhcIBjYf0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kBEQPWOROE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0a8t_VVE4k

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open this image in a new tab and observe closely, tell me what you see

>>947611
Holy shit!

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>>944977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbAhn7iKLPc

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Aeroscraft officially has its prototype flying.

Will they succeed?

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>>949122

>>945000
Actually, I'm pretty sure that's the wheel for the elevators...not exactly what most would consider "steering"

>>947611
What exactly am I supposed to be seeing?