Timeline for Additional applications for advanced airships in my earth-like world
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| Sep 4, 2021 at 17:29 | comment | added | JuimyTheHyena | Ligament As I mentioned it's an hybrid design in which the lifting power of the bubble is combined with the lifting power of thrusters and propellers, see? | |
| Sep 4, 2021 at 17:25 | comment | added | Ligament | That's very different. It's not a lighter-than-air craft. To have a craft loaded with the weight of several military fighter planes and a total average density lower than that of air is gonna require a stupendous size of bubble. | |
| Sep 2, 2021 at 17:41 | comment | added | JuimyTheHyena | Ligament Excellent suggestion, though about military applications allow me to direct you to this: youtube.com/watch?v=d7KgjObskvM This video illustrates the concept of a nuclear powered flying aircraft carrier designed to be capable of continous flight, holding fighther jets and even of vertical lift off. In this context I believe it would make it plausible to have an airship with hybrid design capable of additional lift thanks to electric jet thrusters, specifically a rotastat design. | |
| Sep 2, 2021 at 16:17 | comment | added | Ligament | Found this regarding defense: worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/229/… | |
| Sep 2, 2021 at 15:59 | comment | added | Ligament | A carrier that carries some one-man gliders might be possible: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(sailplane) or en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(aircraft) – it looks like the sailplanes weigh a few hundred kg, so an airship in the 60-ton-lifter class (like the ML866 and LCAT60T models IRL) could carry maybe about 50 of them that would unload, glide about unleashing hell with one gun (and a flamethrower because flamethrowers are fun) and return to the mothership | |
| Sep 2, 2021 at 15:32 | comment | added | JuimyTheHyena | Ligament Oh excellent point about the water! Yeah they'd absolutely use that. Good to know about the metal-clad airship possibility, especially considering the availablity of materials that are meant to substitute metals for protection (carbon based mainly). About the carrier concept...yeah the added weight would be a problem, but consider that we are dealing with an hybrid design so it would be capable of offsetting extra weight with the usage of thrusters and ducted rotors. | |
| Sep 2, 2021 at 15:16 | comment | added | Ligament | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal-clad_airship – it's been tried and is not beyond the bounds of possibility. A flying aircraft CARRIER isn't a good application of lighter-than-air ships, as they just can't carry much weight without becoming heavier than air. | |
| Sep 2, 2021 at 15:13 | comment | added | Ligament | Clouds too: everybody needs water and how do you get water in the sky? Imagine sailing through a cloud with a fine net like this: yewtu.be/watch?v=G4GHGBov15U | |
| Sep 2, 2021 at 15:01 | comment | added | JuimyTheHyena | Hmmm not bad suggestions, though I never envisoned these settlements as ever being able to achieve anything close to true self-sufficiency from the surface, though the idea of them relying on airborne creatures for sustenance is pretty good is quite good. Thank you. For the military applications, consider that they'd be able to reach rather high in the sky and have advanced self defense systems and protective materials (think like a flying aircraft carrier), you sure they'd be that easy to attack/take down? | |
| Sep 2, 2021 at 14:24 | history | answered | Ligament | CC BY-SA 4.0 |