From: joshua geller (dclxvi_at_best.com)
Date: 04/21/98
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:34:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804212334.QAA25914@shell5.ba.best.com> From: joshua geller <dclxvi_at_best.com> Subject: Wired article on airships
Adam Starchild writes:
> 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.
this summer?
cool, if true.
I was at their website just a little while ago and didn't see anything
about this. source?
josh