I hope all these new airship designs work out I've always dreamed about going on a cruise in a airship/blimp. With modern technology most of the reasons the old ones failed can be avoided. Modern avionics and weather reports allow you to know wind direction and altitude so if there's bad weather you fly into the wind or against it just like pilots in small planes do. Plus with turbofan or most likely turboprop engines it will be able to go faster and use underside of the rigid hull to create lift which could get it to higher altitudes to avoid storms
to all the Naysayers, this is a completely possible design. This is by far the most complete and beautifully rendered airship I've seen in sometime. The attention to detail for the interior is amazingly inviting.
Yep lol. There is no lifting gas that can carry a load like that. The gas chambers would have to be three or four times the size they showed in the video just to get off the ground, or use engines to complement the lifting power.
I like this idea. I really, really do. I don't know how feasible it'll be and I'm sure the cost of riding one on its day-and-a-half voyage would be astronomical. But part of me just wants to save the money to do it. For real. I mean, the interior alone is worth it. Breathtakingly futuristic.
very awesome like a UFO very very advanced I love it ! your 50 or more years ahead of everyone what a leap in technology! I would love to have a ride in that.
It looks cool and the 3DCG is great, and is very nostalgic for me as well, but this is nothing but a fool's dream. This is about as feasible as the Moon resort on Dubai, which doesn't make it any favors. Would work great for something animated, though! For a movie or something :3
Awesome concept! Hope we get to see something like this in the future. The whole hydrogen thing though... Even I agree it would be the most efficient means of lift and energy production (and could even be generated on the fly, so to speak), and seeing as how helium is quickly being depleted, I still have a hard time getting over the whole idea "flammability". Not saying I wouldn't ride on one, though. It'd only make it that much more of an adventure.
Hotels on the ground.. -check Hotels on air.... -check hotels in space... - in process now all we need is an underground aqua hotel lol, instead of pools you go diving..
If you think about it, the sixties-seventies people who were born in that time frame might see practical immortality for thousands of years, at least in the developed world. The life expectancy will not just rise, but rise faster and faster, leading to a threshold where you're sixty, and your lifespan's seventy. When you're seventy, it'll be 85. When 85, it'll be 110. And with genetic stuff, that'll most likely happen.
Yup. A daring move, considering rather spectacular end of the Hindenburg. Even as it would be engineered to much higher safety level, public fear could prevent it to become very popular. But anyway it is planned more as a luxury toy than a mass transport device, so that probably wouldn,t bothers the investors much.
Solar powered hmm? Cool, but what if there's a bit of light cloud cover? It'd make the Hindenberg look like a minor air incident if this beast came crashing down. Worth pitching to the galactic empire though, Palpatine and Vader could really make a statement in one of these with a few mean ion cannons attached to its sides. That's how seriously this idea should be taken. Cool tho, always good to imagine.
Very ambitious plans - they want to be able to bump into skyscrapers, suspension bridges, you name it. Personally, I would make like a pregnant hippo and give them a wide birth.
What caused the Hindenburg disaster? Static electricity and the skin made of iron oxide and aluminum-impregnated cellulose acetate butyrate (CAB); aka rocket fuel. Nice combo there guys!
Hydrogen is the lightest gas, so it's best for this sort of job. You could probably make sure it was pretty safe, technology is better now than in the 1930'. What killed most airships back then was wind and storms though. Maybe this will be better designed to cope with them or fly above them or something?
@PahangDragonbird It's not "fake" it's a concept, there's a major difference. If development goes how they want, this will be a reality in 2015, but again right now it's just a concept.
I don't know about this. It looks awesome but I think that although lot of people don't mind travelling for a few hours on a plane, though the idea of being suspended in the air for 2 days is a bit scary. And for those saying Germany had already done this in the 40s, yeah right. That's like saying that the modern pc has been around since the abacus was invented.
no really sure how someone could build this when it is at the wim of the wind with no manouvering. it would need a giant hanger in case of wind but how would you ensure it would get back to base. very very unlikely
if you were born between 1960 and now, i can safely say that you will have the chance to go in one in the year 2042, and you will probably live beyond 2100-2200
They could use helium instead of hydrogen. What I see being a problem is that this is a commercial endeavor. It's pretty unrealistic to think that they would waste all this space when they could put on more seats (more money).
@ookland81 They did address the risk - they switched to helium. The only reason the Hindenburg wasn't running on helium in the first place was trade restrictions didn't allow the Germans to buy it. After the Hindenburg disaster no one used hydrogen again - it is too flammable. This has to be a joke, they won't seriously do this.
@patchouligirl2000 If we look at life from the standpoint you mention, the motorcar would have died after its first accident, and we would not be using electricity today as they were sure to have experienced death by electric shock long before our towns attempted to replace gas street lights with electric lights. We learn to manage the risk.
Zero emission? Yea, Nice idea, even being too luxury (and expensive) service for general applications. I believe hidrogen lifting airship is not much more dangerous than a standard commercial jet travelling at 500mph with its wings loaded with aviation kerosene.
It is very nice, but another toy for rich people on the other hand. With 500 people on board this was an alternative for airplanes because it does not need so much fuel and is more kompfortable for everyone. Something between ship and aircraft.
then you would have to heat and pressurise the whole thing. . . lighter than air travel is the way forward (as it was in the past) but they will still look like blimps imo.
Sounds like a good idea but they need to solve problems such as steering, high wind stability and the fact that hydrogen is extremely volatile and not to mention what would happen if the Aircruise were to crash into the sea or land. Good concept but probably unusable in the real world
I hope all these new airship designs work out I've always dreamed about going on a cruise in a airship/blimp. With modern technology most of the reasons the old ones failed can be avoided. Modern avionics and weather reports allow you to know wind direction and altitude so if there's bad weather you fly into the wind or against it just like pilots in small planes do. Plus with turbofan or most likely turboprop engines it will be able to go faster and use underside of the rigid hull to create lift which could get it to higher altitudes to avoid storms
If you can dream, you can realize!
I don't know about others but if you see it with the point of view of science, it's hard to imagine it work.
to all the Naysayers, this is a completely possible design. This is by far the most complete and beautifully rendered airship I've seen in sometime. The attention to detail for the interior is amazingly inviting.
hydrogen, 145km/h... kind of sounds like an easy target... but man I wanna ride in it. Very cool.
"I gotta get myself one of these!"
Beleza, tem todo meu apio esta iniciativa....
I wanna live in it!!
You guys wont be laughing if in 50 years time this becomes common place.
I love the idea of slowing travel down. You could almost not go anywhere or just hang around at your destination untill you next want to be there.
This video puts much more emphasis on interior design than on the huge (and probable unsolvable) technical difficulties of making this concept work.
Yep lol. There is no lifting gas that can carry a load like that. The gas chambers would have to be three or four times the size they showed in the video just to get off the ground, or use engines to complement the lifting power.
It doesn't even look like they've taken into the basics of engineering into account.
heavy weather handling?
I like this idea. I really, really do. I don't know how feasible it'll be and I'm sure the cost of riding one on its day-and-a-half voyage would be astronomical. But part of me just wants to save the money to do it. For real. I mean, the interior alone is worth it. Breathtakingly futuristic.
Okay this is pretty cool. It is unique.
Breath-taking!! And looks like Starship Titanic (if anyone read it, will remember) :)
I have one of these in my garden.
Reminds a little of those imperial Leather ads from the '70's.
This looks magic
As long as a few hundred test flights are conducted with "crash test dummies" and its been a viable enterprise for a good 10-20 years count me in!
Absoulutely amazing!
Brilliant concept!
Thanks!
awesome!!
very awesome like a UFO very very advanced I love it ! your 50 or more years ahead of everyone what a leap in technology! I would love to have a ride in that.
Yes!!!
WOW... if they actually build this i'd be keen to take a cruise. amazing!
It looks cool and the 3DCG is great, and is very nostalgic for me as well, but this is nothing but a fool's dream. This is about as feasible as the Moon resort on Dubai, which doesn't make it any favors.
Would work great for something animated, though! For a movie or something :3
what happens if it hits a bad storm?
Awesome concept! Hope we get to see something like this in the future.
The whole hydrogen thing though... Even I agree it would be the most efficient means of lift and energy production (and could even be generated on the fly, so to speak), and seeing as how helium is quickly being depleted, I still have a hard time getting over the whole idea "flammability".
Not saying I wouldn't ride on one, though. It'd only make it that much more of an adventure.
I want to buy a ticket!
Hotels on the ground.. -check
Hotels on air.... -check
hotels in space... - in process
now all we need is an underground aqua hotel lol, instead of pools you go diving..
If you think about it, the sixties-seventies people who were born in that time frame might see practical immortality for thousands of years, at least in the developed world. The life expectancy will not just rise, but rise faster and faster, leading to a threshold where you're sixty, and your lifespan's seventy. When you're seventy, it'll be 85. When 85, it'll be 110. And with genetic stuff, that'll most likely happen.
Yes we can!! (before 2012 please) XD
Where is the propolsion system? What drives it, steers it, controls it? How is it manouvered into position?
It looks pretty cool, but how does it move?
Great now make a personal transport version.
2:40 HOLY CRAP! Is that an oversized iPad?!
Now ive seen everything....
baš, na koju foru oni zamišljaju da to leti? Oo
i guess this is not being built anymore.
@TheHornet79 Technically it's an oversized iPod Touch if you are drawing that comparison... :P
And what will happend under bad weather conditions? When wind exceed the aircrafts maximum speed and they can't control it?
This is my question too. But until the designers feel like revealing more technical details, all we have is their claims and our doubts :)
어게 언제쯤 나오나요?
wow i wont to go now
Just don't name it the Hindenburg.
It looks like it will be beautiful! I would love to ride in this!
What is the first piece of music used in this presentation? Thanks anyone...
Ya that cool and all..
But will it BLEND???
Oh the humanity.....
I like it a lot, but I think the interior needs to be more colorful.
Fun.
i get that but where is the propulsion system and how could you push a brick like that at 150kph.
Yup. A daring move, considering rather spectacular end of the Hindenburg. Even as it would be engineered to much higher safety level, public fear could prevent it to become very popular. But anyway it is planned more as a luxury toy than a mass transport device, so that probably wouldn,t bothers the investors much.
水素でドッカーンってならないんですかね？
could be the ultimate escape from the horrible mess we left on the surface.
@killabeezle i think it opends in july/june or something
Solar powered hmm? Cool, but what if there's a bit of light cloud cover? It'd make the Hindenberg look like a minor air incident if this beast came crashing down. Worth pitching to the galactic empire though, Palpatine and Vader could really make a statement in one of these with a few mean ion cannons attached to its sides. That's how seriously this idea should be taken. Cool tho, always good to imagine.
The last time they did a hydrogen airship they had the Hindenburg disaster. All aboard!
ヒンデンブルグ号の事故の原因は水素ガスではなく外皮であることが当時も分かっていたようですし最近の研究でも確認されています。ヘリウムで作っても同様の事故は起きたと考えられます。でも、水素はちょっと怖いですよね。
Very ambitious plans - they want to be able to bump into skyscrapers, suspension bridges, you name it.
Personally, I would make like a pregnant hippo and give them a wide birth.
@whowotme
It descends and anchors.
Also before that you take care to avoid the storm as with any other aironautical vehicle.
What caused the Hindenburg disaster? Static electricity and the skin made of iron oxide and aluminum-impregnated cellulose acetate butyrate (CAB); aka rocket fuel. Nice combo there guys!
Hydrogen is the lightest gas, so it's best for this sort of job. You could probably make sure it was pretty safe, technology is better now than in the 1930'. What killed most airships back then was wind and storms though. Maybe this will be better designed to cope with them or fly above them or something?
What is the name of a song that starts in 3:50 ?
@PahangDragonbird
It's not "fake" it's a concept, there's a major difference. If development goes how they want, this will be a reality in 2015, but again right now it's just a concept.
It's 2019 and it is still not reality
I to bi trebalo letjeti?
thinking about it.. how could it be sufficiently powered enough to move at 150mph at least?
magic
whats the likelihood for this to really be in existence?
@threeeels move along old dude...its time for some NEW "timeless sophistication"
@maulik127 i think it is like the Hotel airship
This is an airship, not a balloon. Check the wiki for differences :)
this is not projected to fly for another 35 years, i don't think this world has that much time left.
I don't know about this. It looks awesome but I think that although lot of people don't mind travelling for a few hours on a plane, though the idea of being suspended in the air for 2 days is a bit scary. And for those saying Germany had already done this in the 40s, yeah right. That's like saying that the modern pc has been around since the abacus was invented.
I am puzzled... why the horrendously inefficient shape?
no really sure how someone could build this when it is at the wim of the wind with no manouvering. it would need a giant hanger in case of wind but how would you ensure it would get back to base.
very very unlikely
Its been predicted that these will come into existence in 2043, hmmmm...
its supposed to be safe, but the bad accident early on makes people think that its not
The difference escapes my limited knowledge of English :)
SiIvagunner is that you
あと20年経てばできそうな気がする
@audiavantveesix but it has bigger space and more comfortable yay!
if you were born between 1960 and now, i can safely say that you will have the chance to go in one in the year 2042, and you will probably live beyond 2100-2200
2:41 Giant TV Iphone lol
They could use helium instead of hydrogen. What I see being a problem is that this is a commercial endeavor. It's pretty unrealistic to think that they would waste all this space when they could put on more seats (more money).
@ookland81 They did address the risk - they switched to helium. The only reason the Hindenburg wasn't running on helium in the first place was trade restrictions didn't allow the Germans to buy it. After the Hindenburg disaster no one used hydrogen again - it is too flammable. This has to be a joke, they won't seriously do this.
@black00dice I'd add that if you live beyond 2200 you are also very likely to last thousands of years... millions/billions if you wish.
@black00dice haha a girl can dream right!
本当に作るとしたら、１０億は軽く超えそうなところですねぇ・・・
っつか、落ちてきたりとかはしないのかなぁｗ
@patchouligirl2000
If we look at life from the standpoint you mention, the motorcar would have died after its first accident, and we would not be using electricity today as they were sure to have experienced death by electric shock long before our towns attempted to replace gas street lights with electric lights. We learn to manage the risk.
Good idea but i know that its gonna be so expensive....
@existentialvoid If its big enough, it can be any shape they want.
Zero emission? Yea, Nice idea, even being too luxury (and expensive) service for general applications. I believe hidrogen lifting airship is not much more dangerous than a standard commercial jet travelling at 500mph with its wings loaded with aviation kerosene.
see ya in 2985 for the grand opening...
Im still scaced too fly hehe
It is very nice, but another toy for rich people on the other hand. With 500 people on board this was an alternative for airplanes because it does not need so much fuel and is more kompfortable for everyone. Something between ship and aircraft.
then you would have to heat and pressurise the whole thing. . .
lighter than air travel is the way forward (as it was in the past) but they will still look like blimps imo.
future is now...
40 maybe 30 years
Sounds like a good idea but they need to solve problems such as steering, high wind stability and the fact that hydrogen is extremely volatile and not to mention what would happen if the Aircruise were to crash into the sea or land. Good concept but probably unusable in the real world
but airships r SO slow... jet engines arnt clean... but they are fast...