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Video would be much more impressive if it showed loading the cargo package -- can it pick up autonomously or does it need to be loaded by a ground crew? -- and
by fernly 5y ago
Video would be much more impressive if it showed loading the cargo package -- can it pick up autonomously or does it need to be loaded by a ground crew? -- and also dropping it off within a designated space marked by cones.
Will the full-size model be able to lift a standard 40-foot shipping container? That would be very cool indeed, to have the blimp pick up from a truck or from a container ship.
- tempestn 5y agoThe full size blimp is only 60ft long, and is intended to carry 650lb, so not anywhere near a shipping container. Also I'm not sure it's important that it be able to pick up or even drop off autonomously. It's getting the cargo from point A to point B that's the hard part. If they can do that cost effectively, that's plenty to have a very viable business.
- wombatpm 5y agoTare weight for a shipping container is 8000lbs, so no.