More recently, zeppelins flew - and it was great! Silvery giants, silently hovering in the clouds above the cities, attracted the eye, causing general admiration, for their unreal beauty.
Why did such a promising air transport cease to exist? In aeronautics, there was a fierce struggle for airspace as a sphere of influence over humanity.
How it all started
In March 1936, in Germany, the world's first rigid airship (zeppelin category) was built, 245 meters long, 41.2 meters in diameter.
Zeppelin * Ginderburg *.
He developed a speed of up to 135 kilometers per hour.
The interior of the airship * Ginderburg *. Promenade decks.
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The huge air transport was able to accommodate over three thousand people at the same time, while carrying up to 100 tons of cargo on board.
Comfortable transportation was like a cruise yacht at sea.
Zeppelin internal structure.
The Zeppelin soaring in the clouds was like a huge yacht at sea! In addition to personal cabins with a toilet room and a shower, the airship contained: a comfortable reading room, a restaurant and a stage, promenade decks with observation windows, even a smoking room.
The landing site at the American Empire State Building in New York.
The Empire State Building, New York, with an airship moored to its spire.
It was conceived that the passengers, being in the building on the one hundred and second floor, would be able to board the airship, which was moored at the mast on the roof of the skyscraper. One hundred and second floor served as a landing platform.
Huge advantages over aircraft
The sparkling silver giant, for its further and happy exploitation, needed only helium as fuel. With such fuel, flight safety was so high that no aircraft could compare with it.
Despite the enormous size of this transport, it did not need a runway. The airship could hover above the ground for an amazingly long time.
In the case of unforeseen circumstances on board, the survival rate of passengers would be extremely high. With such flight qualities, this transport had to fly and be in our life!
Official reasons for disaster or deliberate destruction.
Zeppelin * Hindenburg *.
There was a version that a sabotage was committed - an hour bomb, planted in the fuel compartment, exploded near the hydrogen cylinders. The commission of inquiry that investigated the disaster did not come to a consensus about its causes.
Or maybe they got this technology from a previous civilization? She was in a hurry finalized, without having those lost, perfect technologies of air vehicles, which were previously flown. Otherwise, it is impossible to understand why the transport was created if there is no fuel for it. Or relying on allies?
Project closure hypotheses: competition or total control
Here's the most interesting thing - the Americans knew the technology of helium production. After all, they knew - but did not sell! Is this fact not suggestive?
All the wealth that exists on Earth, all spheres of influence - have long been rigidly divided! And, an outsider is not allowed to enter these ruling circles, change, and even more so, take away the sphere of influence.
Other hypotheses: aeronautics on zeppelins could reveal the secrets of the true structure of continents, the structure of the Earth, or other objects invisible from the surface of the Earth.
Or they were scared of the advantages of combat airships, which would inevitably be used for military purposes. This is the secret of the century, known to certain circles involved in it.
Silent airship flight at low altitude.
The advantage of modern airships over aircraft
Now airships fly, but to a limited extent, only for special, research missions, or special excursions. Well, they do not want to introduce this amazing transport for the use of his humanity. Citing low speed and poor maneuverability.
On this airship in 2012, scientists searched for a fallen meteorite off the California coast.
This conclusion is not true: at present, it is possible to build airships that will rise into the stratosphere, and reach speeds of up to 1000 kilometers per hour.
Passengers and cargoes of the airship can descend using a mooring mast, an elevator device, there are many options, given that the airship hovers motionless in the air at any time.
The largest airship in the world today. Its length is 92 meters, carrying capacity is 20 tons. The device can fly without people, at an altitude of 6100 meters, about 2 weeks
The carrying capacity of such air transport is unlimited! Moreover, it is capable of delivering cargo to any hard-to-reach point on the planet, without the need for landing on the ground.
At the conclusion of almost 85 years of history
At the present time, not only in Russia and America, but in many countries of the world, these wonderful aircrafts are being designed and built, in single copies. They are not used on a large scale. Not yet allowed. When and who will be the first to start a scheduled flight - the question remains open.
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