Solar blimp to fly from NYC to Paris, Rests on Land or Water


	Solar blimp to fly from NYC to Paris, Rests on Land or Water

disenchantedcitizen

8-5-2009 8:34 AM

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solar power, blimp, air travel

disenchantedcitizen says:

The folks at Turtle Airships don’t like calling their aircraft a ‘blimp’: “It is a rigid shelled, amphibious, solar powered, all weather, FAST aircraft that is lifted by helium, but it is not a blimp.”

Even so, it's a blimp.

Nasty memories of the Hindenburg aside, it may not be long before passengers are flying comfortably from New York to Paris– and beyond– aboard Turtle Airships.

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8-6-2009 2:34 AM

darkeforce

Very futuristic to see some of those things floating in the sky.

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