Zeppelins Set for Comeback
From RT.com: ” Exactly a century ago, in 1908, the first Russian airship blasted off in the then capital St Petersburg. Today, after successfully building scaled-down zeppelins, the Russian company RosAeroSistemy is planing to realize the ideas of the rocket scientist – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. The Russian pioneer of space theory predicted that airships with hard shells could be highly reliable and maneuverable once the right technology was developed.
The DT-N1 (Dirizhabl (zeppelin) Tsiolkovsky – #1) project is about building an airship 268 meters long, 64 meters wide, capable of carrying a 180-tonne cargo. Its maximum speed will be 179 km/h, with a cruising speed of 120 km/h. It will have a range of 5,000km.” Zeppelins set for comeback
