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British designers are aiming to bring back the age of luxury air travel. With an ultra-modern, environmentally friendly take on the zeppelins of the early 20th century, these gigantic flying hotels could send travelers soaring quietly - and comfortably - to destinations around the world by 2015.

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[radardetectormissile]

With outstanding view in the luxurious flying hotel should be one of most popular dream in the world.Specially,people who dreamed of futuristic life style might be ambitious about this kind of project.

Unfortunately,I am one of them.

It's so G~~~~~~ReaT!

What about my project(?)? See railgunmissile.blogg.no

[methanepower]

what whales? they will all be dead by the hands of the japanese by the time this gets airborne

[Bio360Hazard]

Having sex in a floating diamond, 1000 feet above the Serengeti desert.....sounds a hell of a lot better than an airplane bathroom lol

[GreatWallStr1]

@drmartyn I agree-- I'm surprised they didn't lean more towards Helium. :O

[drmartyn]

Nice concept, but highly flammable HYDROGEN as fuel? The Hindenberg springs to mind....Not a good idea....

[PsYcHoXgothXchick]

i like this idea i would totally pay for this seriously

[triumph209]

Great project. Now where can I throw up?

[genefury75]

very nice it's about time

[mookins45]

Wow, thanks for shining a light on the subject! And, right: contollability- it looks like it'd blow around like a leaf in the wind. Reliability: it'd be a long march to make the helium cells as reliable as today's jet engines. Liability- the thing's going to hit turbulence sometimes, and then people are going to fall over unless you make them sit and then it's not a hotel anymore. Maybe a little too blue-sky a design. And a network of docking installations would cost a fortune.

[derekf900]

@mookins45 One could say, it will be just like Cruise Line and in theory that's true. As a flying hotel, it's covered under completely different regulations. Operating in the sea of air is similar yet vastly different to the sea of water. Look back to the U.S. Zeppelins that were used by the Navy in the 1930's, they used helium. With new technologies some of those hazards could be avoided but the manufacturer will need to prove everything works well beyond the controlling agencies expectations.