A Flying Luxury Hotel?

[CaptainEd]

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/whatsnew/1 ... drcrd.html


Shades of Das Hindenberg!

I wish them well in this venture.

[stevie]

[fokker_f27]

I have seen this before, but what is actually going to make it fly?

[ElcoB]

See all specs on their website: The Aeroscraft

The word Aeroscraft describes a flying craft that derives its lift partially from lifting gas (helium) and partially from the traditional dynamic lift created by the shape of the body. Aeros has designed a craft that takes advantage of both methods of lift.

[Skyfighter]

now it is not "i missed my plane" but "i missed my bedroom"

Looks really nice,a cruiseship in the sky,like this now already more than the A380 But they should search something else than helium...

greets

[CaptainEd]

I'm wondering about this suggested 4,000' cruising altitude. That puts it in harms way in a CB.

Pax don't like turbulance, and neither do I.

Too much loose gear coming adrift in any turbulence, even Moderate, no less severe.

Any planned route would be subject to storm and turbulence avoidance enroute, instead of an option to fly above it.

The cargo version makes more sense to me, but I doubt if the rates necessary for a profit would be competitive with that of ships and trains.

[SN30952]

I'm wondering about this suggested 4,000' cruising altitude. That puts it in harms way in a CB.
Pax don't like turbulance, and neither do I.

During the flight, passengers would peer at national landmarks just 8,000 feet below.
Aeroscraft will provide more space and better service than the finest first class, at a dramatically lower price.
They say.
What would that price then be?

And I have an other range of questions, Ed.
Imagine such a flight-cruise takes 3days airborn.
How much water should the ship take on board?
They need water for toilets, unless there are chemical ones.
3days is 72hours/ So passengers and crews should preferably have at least a shower of two?
Dishes and glasses would not be reused during the journey? How do they keep that tidy...
And people have to drink.
This means thousends of liters potable and thousends of liters of sanitary water: the load of water alone would be a multiple of the weight of passengers and crew combined.

Transporting water by air is that efficient?

In their cargo version they say they plan a payload of 500T.
In their passenger version, the say the would take some 250 passengers.
But they would need a crew of how much? 50?

Endow 100L per SOB, that makes 300x100 per diem, times 3 = 90T at lift off*

*Of course they can drop used waters.... Cruiseships do that too, they arrive leighter, indeed.

[CaptainEd]

Right - I see no future for this.

Military? WHAT A TARGET!!

[ehamspotter]

Hello;

I would say:keep dreaming!

rgds:Jeroen

[fokker_f27]

If it is lifted by helium, then it will probably never fly, I read that the heleum supply will be used up in 2010-2015. And that uses a LOT of helium.

[CX]

But military airships are hot aren't they? Read on flight global or somewhere else that with a high resting airship they can totally look over a whole country (small one of course)..