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A Ukrainian airship visionary based in California has won further US military funding to develop his miraculous "Aeroscraft" sky-leviathan design. However, some question marks remain over the craft's unique - almost miraculous - buoyancy-control technology. Aeros Aeronautical Systems Corp announced last week that it had been …

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  1. Deryk Barker

    Small historical point

    The Hindenburg was actually designed to use helium, but the USA, which has a virtual monopoly on the supply, refused to supply it to Germany, despite the fact that it has no strategic value and that, in any case, as the Hindenburg lost ~5% on every trip across the Atlantic, anytime the USA had wanted it could have cut off the supply.

    Also worth pointing out that the Hindenburg and its predecessor, the Graf Zeppelin, provided a regularly (weekly?) service between Germany and Brazil.

    Until the disaster not a single passenger had been harmed.

    Had the helium been available...

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  2. Herby

    DARPA stands for

    While I understand English separates our two countries, here where DARPA exists, we call it the DefenSe Advanced Research Projects Agency. I suspect that over in the UK, it might just be called "Q section". Similar end functions.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    224m diameter concrete balloon

    Just to wrap this one up, a 2cm thick concrete vacuum balloon would need to be 224m in diameter to fly.

    Can you imagine it? A 224m diameter sphere of concrete flying in the sky under it's own boyancy, blown about by winds. What a sight that would be.

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