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Forum: Military Aviation
30th Jan 2019, 11:42
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

The Corporal is not being entirely negative. ...

The Corporal is not being entirely negative.

After all, he's promoting an opportunity to invest in a start-up company. One that's proposing to develop a family of all-new high-performance military...
Forum: Military Aviation
29th Jan 2019, 21:35
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

"Poised" is a very useful and flexible word. ...

"Poised" is a very useful and flexible word.

Mind you, I always thought that nighttime airborne s--g* cruises around the world's scenic wonders would be a good choice as an early accessible...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Apr 2016, 11:51
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

How about a moratorium on the use of "gas bag"...

How about a moratorium on the use of "gas bag" and "snake oil"?

Or even a recognition that the hybrid idea (endorsed so far by LM and Selex-ES) might be worth exploring to see if it has value for...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Apr 2016, 23:38
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

How long did it take you to count them? ...

How long did it take you to count them?

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1d/7c/e6/1d7ce681f377d0fc09be2813864610f7.jpg

If you read the posts on the other thread you may find that the...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Apr 2016, 01:21
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

Please, LJ, stop for your own sake. Do you really...

Please, LJ, stop for your own sake. Do you really expect HAV employees, or anyone working for a crowdfunded venture, to work for nothing? That's not how these things work. The funding is THERE to pay...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Apr 2016, 18:48
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

Tourist - Exactly. From the earliest days the...

Tourist - Exactly. From the earliest days the bane of LTA was the idea that first-of-class ships were not experimental aircraft. (See R.101, unfortunate end of.) There have been exactly two large...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Apr 2016, 13:39
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

Chaps - You're missing an important point. The...

Chaps - You're missing an important point. The ability to fly an airplane automatically endows you with universal knowledge, not only of how all airplanes work and how they are designed, but of how...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Mar 2016, 11:31
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

Point-to-point travel? Doubt it. A gentle...

Point-to-point travel? Doubt it.

A gentle amble over the Grand Canyon or the Serengeti, with big picture windows and not a sound to disturb the wildlife or the hikers? Sounds more interesting.
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Mar 2016, 21:43
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

Glad you agree with LJ, Beags. You may be...

Glad you agree with LJ, Beags.

You may be right. On the other hand, a couple of major defense contractors (LockMart and Selex-ES) are investing in hybrid/LTA at the moment, and they may be right...
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Mar 2016, 20:58
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

Indeed, Rigga. Also, consider this: ...

Indeed, Rigga. Also, consider this:

http://graphics.latimes.com/missile-defense-jlens/

JLENS has eaten $2.7 billion - almost 30 times the sum that LJ is mad about - in two decades of...
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Mar 2016, 19:04
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

One of the real problems with LTA/hybrid - and...

One of the real problems with LTA/hybrid - and HAV themselves walked into it with the LEM-V go-around - is that for some reason, everyone forgets that every such aircraft that isn't a repro-Goodyear...
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Mar 2016, 13:29
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

Tell us how you really feel, LJ. Maybe you...

Tell us how you really feel, LJ.

Maybe you can console yourself with the realization that, over the decades, the entire neo-LTA/hybrid community has consumed a relatively tiny amount of...
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Dec 2015, 02:41
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSc4gNwyTWE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSc4gNwyTWE
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Nov 2015, 14:41
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

I can hear the LockMart CEO now... ...

I can hear the LockMart CEO now...

"Commercial aviation - wow, that's a big market. But wait a minute - who pays the bills when we deliver seven years late? How do we generate revenue and margin...
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Sep 2015, 23:09
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

In the military transport regime, you wouldn't...

In the military transport regime, you wouldn't get an LTA within range of a hostile SAM or in an area with an active fighter threat, but then nor would you do that with a C-17 or a C-5. You would...
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Sep 2015, 13:32
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

Right you are, txxxxx. And not just places with...

Right you are, txxxxx. And not just places with few roads, I should think. Turbine blades for a lot of the U.S. Midwest come across the Atlantic on specialized cargo ships, up the St Lawrence,...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Sep 2015, 23:30
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

You missed LockMart's airship announcement at...

You missed LockMart's airship announcement at Paris.

Lockheed Martin Launches Worldwide Hybrid Airship Sales With Hybrid Enterprises · Lockheed Martin...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Sep 2015, 21:36
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

The website is out of date in that respect. The...

The website is out of date in that respect. The 50 is some way off.

Nobody ever expected "weeks and weeks of manned surveillance". The US Army wanted 21 days unmanned. I am not sure why,...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Sep 2015, 07:00
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

LJ - I don't know where you get "a lot of real...

LJ - I don't know where you get "a lot of real estate" from. It needs about twice its own length to get airborne, most of which can be any flat surface. Mooring (using two trailer-mounted pieces of...
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Sep 2015, 17:29
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

You've got three months, Mr J. ...

You've got three months, Mr J.

http://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/463101-new-gen-airships-hybrid-air-vehicles-uk-7.html#post8345297

As it happens I saw the beast today. A bit of rebuild...
Forum: Military Aviation
13th May 2015, 10:24
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

So you know the difference between Rush Limbaugh...

So you know the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg?
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Feb 2015, 18:16
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

I keep my billions in Krugerrands under the...

I keep my billions in Krugerrands under the mattress. Also, ethics rules.
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Feb 2015, 17:08
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

Generally speaking, when someone goes from...

Generally speaking, when someone goes from "co-founder" to firing off vitriolic attacks (I should add "allegedly" since I can't trace this back any farther than a comment on an Air & Space article),...
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Feb 2015, 16:13
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

What I see in that chart is a company supporting...

What I see in that chart is a company supporting itself with small conventional airships (which everyone agrees are niche devices, no arguments there) while it tries, mostly with very little outside...
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Feb 2015, 12:43
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

The way some people talk, you'd think that a...

The way some people talk, you'd think that a relative of theirs had gone down on the R.101.

Had a reasonably large-scale, modern LTA/hybrid been built, tested and flopped operationally or...
Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Oct 2014, 23:05
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

I would not like to do that last recovery, with...

I would not like to do that last recovery, with no landing gear. As in "none" - the F9C did not have a retractable gear. They just removed it for routine airship ops. I guess if you were 1000 miles...
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Sep 2014, 19:56
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

LJ - I think you have made your views known...

LJ - I think you have made your views known before.

You have a point on the ISR side, although Mr Wood overlooks the fact that heavier-than-air UAVs undergo a startling increase in price as the...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Sep 2014, 11:50
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

Thanks Txxxx.... What will it take to do the...

Thanks Txxxx....

What will it take to do the second Airlander 10, in terms of money and time? (I'm guessing that the first "Airlander 10" is the ex-LEMV.)

As for the 50 - many sillier ideas...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Aug 2014, 22:06
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

ER? Neutron bomb? Napalm? If we are talking...

ER? Neutron bomb?

Napalm? If we are talking airstrike, how well does an A400M withstand a cluster bomb?
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Aug 2014, 12:50
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

If airships or hybrids had failed after receiving...

If airships or hybrids had failed after receiving one-tenth of one percent of the R&D investment lavished on tilt-rotors or STOVL one might be justified in writing them off. As it is, the technology...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Aug 2014, 16:22
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

I don't think anyone is talking about flying...

I don't think anyone is talking about flying these things into any environment worse than the risk of small arms (disperse your redundant systems and a bit of Dyneema around the soft pink bits) and...
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Oct 2013, 17:56
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

There may be more to this story to come.

There may be more to this story to come.
Forum: Military Aviation
15th Oct 2011, 14:26
Replies: 535
Views: 291,199
Posted By LowObservable

NorthGrum cancelled its LEMV press conference at...

NorthGrum cancelled its LEMV press conference at the AUVSI show in August at the last moment, and did not brief at the Association of the US Army show this week in DC.

So what we have is a...
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