If you could do whatever you wanted to do. (Continued)
I would find a large abandoned strip mine. Essentially a strip mine is a giant hole in
the ground where for years a company just removed the earth and harvested what they
want from the dirt.
I would build a large structure over one end or a section of
the mine for the purpose of covering it as well as installing large cranes that
would be attached to rails to move in two directions, across the length of the
structure as well as across the width of the clover.
We would use this structure to build giant hard shelled
airships. Initially I want to build
giant airships with five really large tanks approximately 900 feet long with a
diameter of 360 feet in the middle that tapers to a smaller oval shapes at the
end of the tanks. The entire structure
would be covered with a hard aluminum shell shaped in a aerodynamic design.
The tanks within the airship structure will be built and reinforced from the inside out with outer shell parts of the tank designed so
that as the external pressure builds on the outside of the tank it pushes
pieces together tighter and helps to seal and strengthen the entire
structure. Lastly we would spray the entire
tank structure with a rubberized pliable air tight coating.
Somewhere in the ships will be a series of vacuum pumps in
order to pump out a smaller vacuum tank that will control the primary ballast
of the overall craft. The difference of
this tank being full of air would mean the craft would weigh several hundred
pounds and when the tank was empty and at 95% vacuum the ship would be lighter
than air, or buoyant! Each ship would
have small jet engines which really would look quite silly for such a large craft
but it is all that would be needed for a lighter-than-air craft that
essentially would float upward and coast with the wind like a cloud unless
powered to do something different.
I
would build the first ones to be designed to haul freight containers and arrange
to fly empty containers overseas until we can build the contacts and
arrangements to fly container freight from overseas into the United
States. I envision creating a an
enormous landing zone between Kansas City, Missouri and Omaha, Nebraska
alongside Interstate I-29 for the unloading of the these enormous airships for
container freight.
We would build a school to train pilots and crews to fly and
operate the aspects of the airships and hire the best of the students who
graduate our classes. After our initial
fleet is created for hauling container freight we would sell surplus ships to
companies like FED EX, UPS, USPS, and the military. Later we would build passenger ship versions
for flying general freight and passengers to various other countries of the
world. I envision seeing towers on top
of parking garages where people could board a large airship for a two hour
flight around a city to enjoy gambling, a five star seven course dinner, or
drink and enjoy the view out of the bottom of the ship which will be designed
as a observation lounge.
Where I went a few weeks ago on vacation in the Yucatan peninsula they could build a tower onto one of the resorts and load up a airship
to fly people around to the different Mayan archaeological sites and other sites
of interest in a slow moving air conditioned airship where you could provide
lunch, entertainment, sightseeing with tour guides explaining the significance
of what your viewing below.
Ultimately other uses of these these airships could be to provide
communications centers tethered over major cities to take the place of cell
towers. These would have line of sight
contact with each other and each one could provide cell coverage for a cone of
area under the communication ships.
If the ships were made with seal able cabins, thrusters, and
the means of safely coming back into the atmosphere you could easily use them
to transport large quantities of stuff repeatedly into outer space. The building of large space stations, capable
of building large space ships, or even building the large airships in the
vacuum of space would be very feasible.
Combined where one company is building airships, a school is
training flight crews and associated workers for the ships. A shipping company is buying the ships and
growing the container freight company moving freight from door to door for the
same price as today just within a week instead of weeks. Selling ships to other companies. Building restaurants, casinos, and other
entertainment versions of the ships.
Finding unique opportunities for tourism like the Grand Canyon and the
multitude of other places where slow viewing from above would be magnificent. Lastly the holding company
would have a airline to use for company services like nobody else would have to
transport their people anywhere they needed or wanted to go on the planet for
business or recreation.
Like I said yesterday, if you are going to dream – DREAM BIG!
Has this post spurred any creative ideas?
Of all these posts have you had any inklings of what you
what to start, build, work at?
If you could do anything you want what would you do?
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I have written a fictional (fantasy) story about an airship adventure. I would like to use one of your pictures at the heading of the story. Who do I have to contact to get permission to use the picture? Please advise. Thanks.
tomperrin@cox.net
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