Military and Civilian Airships

[slash12799]

You know the first ship you showed us was a hotwheels blimp...

[keithwhisman]

I love it when people with zero aeronautical knowledge claim everything that doesn't look like an Airplane, helicopter, or airship must be an alien space craft from Naboo, Tantuin, or Vulcan. It's military or experimental and if you believe anything other wise then you are a fool that is falling for the cover up expainations. Of course the government wants you to believe you are seeing aliens instead of the latest top secret technology.

[crazyryan]

be interesting if they made the starshiip from star wars lol

[homicyclops]

You see the crashed one in PA? Can stay up for indefinite length of time....well almost.

[PatheticHero]

The arrogance of the airline industry is real culprit in stopping airship development. After WWll the airship could've ruled the sky but the Jet airliner took over. Everything became focused on speed so the airship was abandoned. And people still believe that the Hindenburg was brought down because of the Hydrogen and not the very flammable doping on the outer shell of the ship. The tell is that Hydrogen has invisible flame, but the burning Hindenburg was very visible.

[3089280288]

Aeros Airship=Thunderbird 2

[hassans111]

low cost satellite



[YFLOInternational]

Phantom Works

[mookins45]

Aviation Week had little articles about two new ones: the first was from Siemens, made to transport big heavy hydroelectric dam equipment to remote areas- otherwise they'd have to build a really big highway to nowhere just to get it to the site. That thing was going to be absolutely enormous. And U.S. Airforce had gotten some designs for both blimp and dirigible versions of a thing like a giant V22 Osprey- the cargo capacity of a ship and the speed of a plane, most of it anyway.

[Archer7Tadayoshi]

I think these aircraft will be created so that people will gradually get used to the presence of Alien Spacecraft in the sky. It's a gradual disclosure project, started by the government, suggested by Alien beings.

[skarlos67]

what is the maxflyer?

[sethkazzim]

The last un-named airship ( the 3rd one) is a stratocruiser by NAU.

It's only a concept, but they have over interesting things on thier website and more pictures of the airship.

[jradetzky]

these things are called Zeppelins and have been around for 100 years

[CrunchyF123]

@jradetzky

no you are wrong,

zeppelin was a german manufacturer of airships ...go look at wikipedia for "graf zeppelin".

the graf zeppelin was named after the German pioneer of airships, Ferdinand von Zeppelin (graf= count)

they are still airships.

[jradetzky]

@CrunchyF123 sure, Ferdinand von Zeppelin was the inventor of those rigid frame dirigibles. Do a wikipedia search for some of the big Zeppelins like the Hindenburg or the USS Los Angeles and you will see that they look like the "new" futuristic aircraft designs

[jradetzky]

there nothing new with these things, they're just variations of the old Zeppelin

[nofranchise]

@jradetzky You're just talking out of your ass. Most of the are hybrid designs that have almost nothing in common with WW1 era Zeppelins - other than they are lighter than air vehicles (or almost lighter than air).

[jradetzky]

@nofranchise whatever, get a life

[FrostbitexP]

@jradetzky

are you retarted? get a life.

[ProChoiceJesus]

When I was a teen or perhaps earlier, I remember seeing an article, perhaps in some aviation or science magazine, about a company that had built the structure, or maybe part of the structure, of a large rigid airship similar in planform to the zeppelins of old. Does anybody know anything about this? It was maybe the late 70s or early 80s. Their plan was to fly the thing but I believe they ran into the obvious financial woes & the company folded. This I would love to see...a real zeppelin.

[ProChoiceJesus]

Sanswire...hmmm...has to be the ugliest thing that could fly I've ever seen in my life. And WHY the segmented (ie; broken) design? Strange.

[TheCrapoo]

Like if you liked the aeros just because it looks like thunderbird 2 :)

[danich45]

i'd like to see one built in the shape of the star trek voyager space craft, why not?

[roxthefury]

chissà quanti di questi prototipi li abbiamo da sempre (ignorantemente!) scambiati x degli UFO!!!!!!!

[rozzville]

nice video. I'm just getting into the airships because it was rumored that Boeing was producing one, but I found a article on GeekWire that explained that the project has been scrapped. Sucks. I hate when good ideas go no where. I guess I will just design my own.

[skydragon4ever]

1:38 Crap, I want one!

[benjamindesecond]

the ufo sightings are not the spaceship of an alien,the militaries are making these ships and testing it.

[TheHandiQuack]

I like the bullet airship, it looks like a spaceship :P

[778Nata]

they look like overweight airplanes

[mark12130]

these look like the ufo people see in the skys

[mark12130]

the stealth blimp looks spooky if you look at it

[utdw001]

1:38 the V are here

[117ReApEr324]

2:10 Death Star!!

[heliumblimp]

Interesting collection, but the only serious hybrid that is set to make it's first flight later this year is the HAV 304 from Hybrid Air Vehicles in England, that is being built as part of the LEMV program for the US Army. Regards JB (Airship & Blimp Consultant 3w hybridairship dott net and Gasbags comedy 3w airship.me )

[CrunchyF123]

@heliumblimp the p791 is now being promoter to interested buyers.... see video description for a link to a reuters video report.

[StellarGaGaTV]

I have read about many UFO sightings which mention familiar shaped ships to these. Perhaps these ships are the explanation?

[theboomersmom]

thanks crunchyf123

and they would explain some of the sightings

[theboomersmom]

are these proto type are these already flying

[CrunchyF123]

@theboomersmom

some are some are not, some images are consept drawings

i have yet to really look in depth but as a possible explination for some ufo

sightings, these do fit the bill especially the sa60 orb