[HN Gopher] Cargo Airships Are Happening
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       Cargo Airships Are Happening
        
       Author : elidourado
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2024-10-14 16:31 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | oatsandsugar wrote:
       | Time to order a leather hat, goggles and a scarf.
        
       | thecrumb wrote:
       | I see this brought up every few years but nothing ever seems to
       | happen. I used to live not far from the Weeksville station in NC
       | and would occasionally see flights from there. Would love to see
       | these all over. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/weeksville-
       | dirigible-han...
        
       | metalman wrote:
       | Cargo airships will not happen,in any land based area where wind
       | happens,ie :anywhere this has been hammered flat on numerous
       | aviation engineering forums the only way around the guaranteed
       | ground handling debaucle is to engineer mega structur masts for
       | anchoring,which will need to have a circular pad underneath,where
       | the cargo would have to follow the LTA,as it pivots in the wind
       | so back to a debaucle,with lots of smashing stuff one possibility
       | is airship to ocean ship transfers where wind drift can be
       | managed.....sort of could be made to work for passengers snd
       | small cargo that loads through the central pivot in the mast
       | still the anchoring phase will always be very high risk
        
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