No cigarettes
I fucking love Archer
I still haven’t seen the series-ending movie because I was so underwhelmed by the final season.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airship_accidents
Apart from the 80% of the entries that are basically “Crashed during bad weather” - my personal highlights:
… breaks loose from its mooring during a storm and is blown over the English Channel; after sightings in Wales and Ireland and a brief touchdown in Belfast, the airship was blown out over the Atlantic Ocean and is never seen again.
Zeppelin LZ 8 Deutschland II (brand new) is caught by a wind gust while being walked out of its hangar and damaged beyond repair after it smashes on the roof of the hangar.
… the airship, weighed down with gold and burgundy paint, reached 600 feet altitude before beginning an unplanned right descending turn, making a “controlled descent” into a garbage dump, impaling the blimp on a pine tree, coming down just a quarter-mile from the site of the Hindenburg’s 1937 demise.
… suffers an intentional mid-air collision with a radio-controlled airplane.
the airship was blown out over the Atlantic Ocean and is never seen again.
Hastily stuffing “Ghost zeppelin” into my horror idea bag
lol, the gilded blimp crashing into a junkyard
Let’s put a billion birthday balloons worth of MRI gas in a terminally slow aircraft and inexplicably fly it over sports stadiums.
Modern airship designs can go hundreds of km per hour.
With modern technology we also can contain fire into pockets.
This isn’t much different than criticising a plane because petrol is flammable.
Yeah, no. I’m back at a real computer and thought about this so I went and looked.
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-speed-for-an-airship
Guinness World Record is 115 km/h, a blistering 72 miles per hour.
That’s a stripped down machine made for “speed”. Anything made for “work” is going to be considerably slower. Don’t get me wrong, airships were an important stepping stone for aviation but none of them can compete with an airplane for utility.
they were abandoned because commercial airliners were faster, safer, more durable, and could carry more people.
…and they don’t fuck up our limited helium reserves en masse.
EDIT: they might fuck up other things, but it would be some serious waste, because there are much more important applications to our limited helium.
Well, the Nazis were stupid and used hydrogen instead of helium. The Hindenburg, pride of Nazi Germany, was full of rich people when it blew up in New Jersey, so who really cares anyway?
It’s also worth noting that it wasn’t the hydrogen that caused the fire. The Hindenburg had an aluminium skin. It began having degradation issues, so they painted it. The paint was iron oxide based. Aluminium and iron oxide are the 2 main ingredients in thermite.
Analysis of the video shows that it was the skin burning off. It would have gone up almost as badly, even if filled with helium.
Helium is very finite and very leaky. If you want flying ships you need something else.
Big ass vacuum
A gigantic maid with a vacuum cleaner
And a big ass.
