Sun Nov 19, 2017 12:40 am
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Agreed, it's a bit of a setback, but, hey, aren't you all forgetting something?- it's his JOB! Yes! it affords him a comfortable living, -As posted by the man himself, he's quite happy to sell his skills elsewhere, if the offer ticks enough of his boxes.
Sorry, I'm also in the doubter's camp. The fact that the "tear open and deflate" mechanism is a built-in design- feature, does nothing to persuade me of it's plusses i just see a serious potential failure-mode.
Terrafugia, Moller, and others have made a living spending other-peoples' money, having fun, building great machines that, for practical and legislative reasons are not going to be a commercial reality in our lifetime...Apart from anything, Drone technology has rendered all the legacy designs obsolete.
No doubt Airlander will have/develop a Molecular Sieve to filter out it's own Helium , or is BOC or Air Products doing them a special deal? I hate to think how much that deflation has cost.
As a younger man, I would have loved to be involved in something like that, and be paid handsomely for it, to boot. Alas, the nearest I came, was helping to build the prototype C-Class catamaran aerofoil mast, which enabled the craft to sail upwind with no sails set...that, too, tended to try and break away from it's moorings.
Sorry, I'm also in the doubter's camp. The fact that the "tear open and deflate" mechanism is a built-in design- feature, does nothing to persuade me of it's plusses i just see a serious potential failure-mode.
Terrafugia, Moller, and others have made a living spending other-peoples' money, having fun, building great machines that, for practical and legislative reasons are not going to be a commercial reality in our lifetime...Apart from anything, Drone technology has rendered all the legacy designs obsolete.
No doubt Airlander will have/develop a Molecular Sieve to filter out it's own Helium , or is BOC or Air Products doing them a special deal? I hate to think how much that deflation has cost.
As a younger man, I would have loved to be involved in something like that, and be paid handsomely for it, to boot. Alas, the nearest I came, was helping to build the prototype C-Class catamaran aerofoil mast, which enabled the craft to sail upwind with no sails set...that, too, tended to try and break away from it's moorings.