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Bit odd to shorten the future tense "to be built" in the article to the past tense "built" in the headline. Also, "largest built in the US since the 1930s" rea
by eterm 4y ago
Bit odd to shorten the future tense "to be built" in the article to the past tense "built" in the headline.
Also, "largest built in the US since the 1930s" really isn't saying too much, how much manufacturing of airships does the US do?
- rsynnott 4y agoThe US built a couple of very large rigid military airships in the 30s (intended to carry small airplanes!) and then never built any large airships of significance again. So, yeah, kind of a meaningless claim. The proposed airship is 180m long; USS Akron was 239m.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoDoing a little googling, we might have built three (Shenandoah, Akron, and the Macon), a fourth one (the Los Angeles) was built by Germans.
- WalterBright 4y agoI thought their construction was done by the Zeppelin factory.
- johnnymorgan 4y agoI'm only aware of the one company in the UK. Pretty cool tech tbh and it feels like pairing up with self-flying drones is the next step. Seems like the economics for 100ton lift is looking better now. Trucks were cheaper but I'm not sure if that still holds today
- billbrown 4y agoHybrid Air Vehicles is the British company - https://www.hybridairvehicles.com/ https://www.hybridairvehicles.com/
- johnnymorgan 4y agoThat's the one!
- samatman 4y agoAirship includes blimps, so, since the 1930s? A reasonable number, small but not zero, single-digit-per-decade it looks like. I don't understand your objection to the sentence even if it said "zeppelin" frankly.