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- MargotCross, on 07/07/2009, -1/+18This is pretty awesome.. I say bring back the blimps.
- addiggt, on 07/07/2009, -1/+12Great initiative, I hope to see similar projects come to life in the future.
- Nudar, on 07/07/2009, -0/+6High school engineering students? Wow are we behind in the US.
- MikeChino, on 07/07/2009, -1/+6Onwards to the age of airships!
- richard67, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2Let me make sure I got this straight..
A lighter than air craft (which can stay in the air without any power) will fly downwind (http://www.weatherweb.net/eastchannelwindgridbarbs ... at 25MPH, where the prevailing wind is 15knots/17mph (http://www.weatherweb.net/eastchannelwindgrid.htm) and I should be impressed.
If I let a party ballon go at the same time the blimp was launched, it would arrive in Dover only 30 minutes later.
When it makes it across the Pacific from East to West, then I will be impressed. That being said, this is a start. - Nacon, on 07/08/2009, -0/+2"the students hope to fly it across the English Channel at the Strait of Dover, which is the shortest span of ocean between the two continents."
First of all, the Dover Strait is in the North Sea, thats hardly an ocean. Secondly, what 2 continents? It flies from the continent of Europe to the continent of Europe... - Hrodrik, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1When I'm rich I'm gonna have my own pimp blimp and land only for the finest bitches.
And supplies. - jimbo92107, on 07/07/2009, -1/+2They should go back to using hydrogen. Is there a passenger, or is that an unmanned blimp? Can I have one?
- JuanBSU, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1Forecast: Cloudy
:( - everyonegohome, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1It would take forever to cross the English Channel at 25 mph, it could take a good year
- xixphz, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1We should start calling them dirigibles agian.
- Aeroboy, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1There's a pretty substantial problem with hydrogen: it's flammable. You know that business with the Hindenburg? Yeah, since then, people have avoided hydrogen or good reason.
- tugger, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1Yes the french proudly showing the world that CO2-free flight across the english channel is possible....
Except of course for nearly 500 parasailors, baloonists hang-gliders etc that make the crossing every summer.. - borez, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1I remember being 8yrs old at school and the Good Year blimp came flying head on towards us, we all hid around the back of the dustbins because we thought it was aliens coming to get us. When we realised what it was it became an awesome sight.
- zjbird, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1You = Retard
- isunktheship, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1hahaha, GG
- bar10dr, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1I can't believe we use them for more stuff.
Huge blimps could carry heavy goods slow but extremely cheap, excelent for remote airlifts like in the wood industry, military, remote drilling etc.
Just make a lot of chambers and fill it with a self repairing glue like substance and it could even withstand gunfire. - Oatlord, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1Would actually take you closer to two days than one in this thing to travel that distance. Better bring along War and Peace or a knife to gouge your eyeballs out from the boredom.
- zjbird, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1It's not solar powered. It's helium powered. The solar power is for the engine which really doesn't need much electricity at all in the first place.
- govsucks, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1Yeah, well I would still like to see blimps make a comeback. Even if it used solar just to supplement power.
- bitORlogic, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1Quite the achievement. Blimpin' ain't easy.
- govsucks, on 07/07/2009, -1/+2I would rather take a solar powered blimp anyplace in the world than an airplane and I would pay extra to just kick back in front of a window with a book and watch the world pass by. Even it it took a full day to go from Miami to New York, it would be totally worth it.
- C4Aries, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1In high school i was in the engineering tech academy, we did some cool stuff, but nothing like that.
- mriojas, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1A solar-powered blimp? That's the gayest vehicle ever.
- lambchick, on 07/07/2009, -1/+1Hmmm...maybe this can replace airplanes??
- rip5896, on 07/08/2009, -0/+0What's the carbon footprint of a helium manufacturer?
- bwjacket, on 07/07/2009, -1/+1All I accomplished in high school was scribbling the names of my favorite bands onto the various desks I sat at throughout the building.
These cats are making blimps powered by a nuclear furnace 93 million miles away. - skankbowlfight, on 07/08/2009, -0/+0Rather be sitting in a deck chair high up over kansas city, on a geniune authentic old fashioned steam powered aereo plain
- Nacon, on 07/08/2009, -1/+1Ye cos we all know helium as a power source...
- Onlinespot, on 07/07/2009, -0/+0lol thats not a bad idea. I think they are on to something here.
- mandarin, on 07/07/2009, -1/+1'The Aurora' would be a better name
- artwhite, on 07/07/2009, -6/+1"Perhaps propelled by the recent dawn of solar powered airplanes"
Is that a joke?
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