posted 10-29- 10:08 PM
From that site...CargoLifter's first products will be semi-rigid, dirigible-type airships called CL 160s; and they will be utterly huge. They will be 853 feet long and 216 in diameter. That's roughly the size of a World War II Iowa-class battleship, and is significantly bigger than any of the giant airships of the Thirties. The Graf Zeppelin, for instance, was 770 feet long and 100 feet in diameter. America's Akron was 785 feet long, while the infamous Hindenburg was 800 feet long and 135 feet in diameter.
Non-flammable helium will be used as the lifting medium in these new dirigibles, rather than the highly volatile hydrogen that was used by many early 20th century airships. The CL 160s will contain 550,000 cubic meters of helium, which is more than 19,423,000 cu. ft. By comparison, the Akron contained 6,850,000 cu. ft., and the Hindenburg, an even seven million.
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