A few thoughts about airships and their future...
1) Airship or helicopter?
I think on short range flights airships are already the better solutions because of the following:
a) Helicopters are kept in the air by a difficult technology - of which many parts can fail...
b) Helicopters are loud...
c) Helicopters consume much fuel as they don't sail at all...
However:
a) Airships fly by a simple and reliable technology - if they are filled with Helium...
b) Airships are silent...
c) Airships don't use any fuel to remain in the air - they must be environmentally friendly and cost-efficient, too...
So if you want to connect an airport and a hotel over the city I think airships are the much better choice...
2) As the pictures below show there are concepts of luxurious and long-range airships, too that combine helium-filled airships with hot-air-based aerostats... Ingenious engineers must have found out that the warm cabin air also provides with much uplift - if you have a great volume of the warm cabin air... That means: the bigger the passenger cabin, the bigger the uplift...
I only don't know how you can reach higher speeds by these giant combined airships? I see: the designers only wanted to float over landscapes calmly like an ocean going vessel crosses the seas majesticly - or a little bit faster...
3) My "flying wing airship concept" has got the following advantages:
a) the helium is stored in not only one huge but several smaller compartments - which reduces the air resistance that allows higher speeds and which means more security, too;
b) the helium compartments alligned next to each other compose a "devay" - on which uplift can be created at higher speeds, just like on flying wing airplanes;
c) the passenger cabin is still supposed to be large because of the uplift of the warm cabin air...
Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team
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