Found on Slashdot: Plans for a "fuelless" airship...

[Patrick Salsbury <salsbury at sculptors dot com>]

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Some interesting links and discussion at:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/27/1837223&mode=thread

	"Fuelless Flight with Air Submarine?"
	Posted by michael on 03:57 PM February 27th, 2004
	from the in-this-house,-we-obey-the-laws-of-thermodynamics dept.

	An anonymous reader writes "Using the same physics principles as submarines, a
	new company is planning a fuelless air ship. Recent advances in ultra light
	and strong materials are making this concept a practical reality." There's no
	question that changes in buoyancy can be used to propel a vehicle, but
	"fuelless" is going to be tricky.

Here are a couple of the links in question, but check the Slashdot page for 
other cool ones:
http://www.fuellessflight.com/
http://tinyurl.com/2ypdp

Someone in the discussion threads also posted a link to 
http://www.lastexiledvd.com/ which apparently is an Anime series set in a 
world where airships large & small are part of daily life and work. 

There are also discussions in the comments that touch on various aspects of 
airship history, dynamics, and their place in historical society of the early 
20th Century.

It's worth having a skim through, or even a deeper dig. And the "Last Exile" 
Flash demo thingie is cute, and gives a bit of a view into the airship 
designs, etc. (Although I have the feeling that the ships are there more 
to provide backdrop and narrative plot, rather than being a centerpiece 
of the series, such as a documentary might.)


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Pat


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