CHEAP AIR TRAVEL - Designer's dream
Why travel the conventional way, expensive, fast, hurried, full of hassels, and arrive at your destination, tired, behind time or ahead of your clock time ?
The other way to travel is to CRUISE along in the air just like you criuse on the ocean waters in a gigantic ship. You guessed it right, I am hinting at the Air Ship. A helium filled gigantic air ship with modern technology to compress the gas at the press of a button to bring down the air ship on land, load her up, and to expand the helium gas for lift off and criuse away.
The chambers for the passengers and crew would be totally seperate from the helium chambes, which could be located on the upper decks. The lower decks would house all the liveable quarters for the passengers, crew and their ammenities required for long travel times.
If we can build and fly Dream liners weighing thousands of tonnes then slow moving feather light Air ships is a sure possibility too.
It is proposed to accend to the height, just below the clouds to take advantage of the high winds in this region to move forward towards our destination. It is further suggested to take the help of the weather network to plan the flights / cruises so that we could take the maximum benefit from the freely blowing winds at no cost to us.
Since the surface area of our Air ship is bound to be pretty large one, we must additionally plan for Solar power for on board needs & useage.
Because the planet Earth is rotating in one particular direction - from west to east we must invariably plan for travel in the opposite direction and look for the winds which move from east to west to get additional advantage of the relative speeds: the Earth at 1000 km/hr. in one direction and the Air ship at maximum of 70km/hr in the other direction. We will get to our destination much faster and cheaper this way. I do realise that the power of gravity is always pushing us in the wrong direction, but at the cloud level its effect is mitigated to a large extent.
Rohit Khanna - Industrial Engineer.
Why travel the conventional way, expensive, fast, hurried, full of hassels, and arrive at your destination, tired, behind time or ahead of your clock time ?
The other way to travel is to CRUISE along in the air just like you criuse on the ocean waters in a gigantic ship. You guessed it right, I am hinting at the Air Ship. A helium filled gigantic air ship with modern technology to compress the gas at the press of a button to bring down the air ship on land, load her up, and to expand the helium gas for lift off and criuse away.
The chambers for the passengers and crew would be totally seperate from the helium chambes, which could be located on the upper decks. The lower decks would house all the liveable quarters for the passengers, crew and their ammenities required for long travel times.
If we can build and fly Dream liners weighing thousands of tonnes then slow moving feather light Air ships is a sure possibility too.
It is proposed to accend to the height, just below the clouds to take advantage of the high winds in this region to move forward towards our destination. It is further suggested to take the help of the weather network to plan the flights / cruises so that we could take the maximum benefit from the freely blowing winds at no cost to us.
Since the surface area of our Air ship is bound to be pretty large one, we must additionally plan for Solar power for on board needs & useage.
Because the planet Earth is rotating in one particular direction - from west to east we must invariably plan for travel in the opposite direction and look for the winds which move from east to west to get additional advantage of the relative speeds: the Earth at 1000 km/hr. in one direction and the Air ship at maximum of 70km/hr in the other direction. We will get to our destination much faster and cheaper this way. I do realise that the power of gravity is always pushing us in the wrong direction, but at the cloud level its effect is mitigated to a large extent.
Rohit Khanna - Industrial Engineer.
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