[Elecraft] Airships...

[J F]

The US Navy had a number of disaterous episodes with
LTA vehicles (USS Macon & USS Akron) and they were
using helium. Too bad the US and Germany were at odds,
the combined engineering skills might have left us
with a more elegant means of travel. 

All the accounts I've read of the Graf or Hindenburg
have them as the prefered means to travel the Atlantic
(if you could afford it).

It's amazing how the Hindenburg (perhaps the Nazi
ties) has killed the airship travel industry for
decades, even tho' the lose of life in HTA vehicles
was, even at that time, much higher.

There is a move in Europe to reintroduce tourist
flights on these elegant airships, hopefully it will
catch on. I'd jump on the opportunity to fly in one.
Of course, I'd love to fly a Saturn V as well ;o) One
may be possible some day soon...

Can you imagine 160M Air Mobile? 

Cheers,
Julius
n2wn

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I suspect that airships, like Morse code, "shortwave"
radio and a lot of other technology some folks assume
are obsolete will be with us for a long, long time
yet. Maybe we'll even get to work an aircraft mobile
aboard a real dirigible again one day! Using CW of
course...

Ron AC7AC