Airship Question

"SHARPSPEED" (SHARPSPEED) 12/30/2016 at 19:11 • Filed to: None

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These airships would make no damn sense, right? You can’t have stuff and walk around in the business part of these, right?

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > SHARPSPEED 12/30/2016 at 19:24

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Some of them just had a bunch of bladders of lightweight gasses. It made for less catastrophic leaks. But yes, there’s way too much going on up there. In most cases as well you wouldn’t want much going on because hydrogen leaks like to go whoomph under the wrong circumstances, and I don’t imagine you’d have as much space for regular air and stuff on a helium balloon with less lift/volume.

Although if they relied on HUGE volumes of warm air, I suppose it could work out.

ttyymmnn > SHARPSPEED 12/30/2016 at 19:30

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Lots of room inside.

zachaput > ttyymmnn 12/30/2016 at 19:48

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SHARPSPEED > ttyymmnn 12/30/2016 at 19:54

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But does it have a labratory going right through the center of it?

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > SHARPSPEED 12/30/2016 at 20:01

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Yes and no. The Zeppelins actually had a lot of maintenance access inside of them. There were catwalks running all over inside the envelope to give mechanics access to the engines and other running gear while in flight.

ETA: call it a lot of artistic license based on actual reality.

facw > SHARPSPEED 12/30/2016 at 20:10

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USS Macon had a five plane hangar:

Also note that all crew areas were within the main body of the airship. Only the bridge protruded.

WRXforScience > facw 12/30/2016 at 20:18

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This is the difference between a rigid airship and a blimp. Sharpspeed, you are thinking about the more common blimp instead of the bad-ass dirigible.

-Edited for clarity.

facw > WRXforScience 12/30/2016 at 20:25

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? I’m clearly thinking about rigid airships, since I posted one?

WRXforScience > facw 12/30/2016 at 20:27

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Sorry, I meant the original poster was confusing the two. I meant to add support to your reply. I really liked your diagram.