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Not to mention safer than a car or jet. Airships are quite safe, contrary to what people think after what happened to the Hindenburg. I wonder how this hibrid a
by petre 8y ago
Not to mention safer than a car or jet. Airships are quite safe, contrary to what people think after what happened to the Hindenburg. I wonder how this hibrid airship behaves in high winds.
- dsfyu404ed 8y ago>I wonder how this hibrid airship behaves in high winds. Worse than an aircraft of similiar capability and better than an airship of similar capability. So somewhere between "tolerable" and "don't even try"
- bigiain 8y agoI'm not sure I'd classify modern passenger jets as "unsafe".
- petre 8y agoThey aren't unsafe but hybrid airships with the current air passenger transport procedures in place could be even safer. If a HAV goes down with 150 kmh speed and 60% buoyancy there's a better chance the passengers would survive provided there is no pressure loss. Here's a video of the Airlander 10 prototype crashing: https://youtu.be/Mg-RPTiVa_Q https://youtu.be/Mg-RPTiVa_Q