From: Adam Starchild (starchild_at_cyberhaven.com)
Date: 04/21/98
Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980422004105.006870a0@mail.hway.net> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 00:41:05 +0200 From: Adam Starchild <starchild_at_cyberhaven.com> Subject: Wired article on airships
The April 1998 issue of Wired has a brief note on airships by Ian Christe
titled "Luftblimp" on page 6:
"The dirigible was once seen as the future of transportation. Post
Hindenburg, the aircraft were reborn as mobile billboards. Now the blimp
has been reborn again, courtesy of a German cargo company. Cargo-Lifter's
helium airships can haul up to 160 tons -- around the weight of a Boeing
747 -- for a fraction of the cost of air freight and 10 times faster than
the land and sea alternatives. When its prototype launches this summer,
CargoLifter aims to fly off with a share of the US$9 billion-a-year market
in oversize cargo.
"The scheme may sound a bit light-headed, but consider the following:
blimps require little infrastructure costs and helium is cheap, inert, and
reusable. Looks like the transportation of the future has a future again."
Posted to the airships list by:
Adam Starchild
http://www.cyberhaven.com/starchild/