Thanks, Ed. If their software suite says that pretty thing can fly, I
wouldn't trust it...
I've seen some pretty weird ads in the aviation press. There was a crazy,
"we rule everything" ad from the Rosocopter or whoever, and then an
article about somebody's aviation experience where the illo is a radial
engine with a big mirror in front of the cylinders. Sure, it's pretty,
reflecting the sunset and all that, but the engine won't work. So much for
all their aviation experience.
> The image is being used to flog Dassault's product lifecycle management
> software suite, rather than any proposed hardware:
> http://www.3ds.com/industries/aerospace-defense/if-we/
>
> Best copy I've found:
> http://i.imgur.com/DKfwMgf.jpg
>
> Artist/photographer is Erik Almås:
> http://www.yatzer.com/Erik-Almas-Dassault-Systemes
> http://www.erikalmas.com/
>
>
>
> On 2015-01-24 12:46, [Traveller_TNE] wrote:
>>
>> Yikes. That pictures scares the hell out of me. It's a gorgeous picture,
>> and good Traveller fodder, but the reference to Dassault requires me to
>> think of it real-world, and that makes me very unhappy. The CG (center
>> of
>> gravity, not contra-gravity) on that thing is way out of whack, and if
>> it
>> isn't, the envelope is way too small. Zeps all carry water ballast, but
>> they never carry up at the very top as it would be too unstable. So to
>> get
>> the CG far enough down they've got a lot more ballast at the bottom, and
>> that envelope can't carry enough hydrogen, let alone helium, to float
>> it.
>> Unless Dassault is advertising its new CG (contra-gravity, not center of
>> gravity) invention, that sucker is going to roll and all that water and
>> all those nice tourists are going to get dumped. It's probably also
>> pretty
>> cold up there to be strolling around the Promenade Deck.
>>
>> I found three links below (and by the way, the first one has a much
>> larger
>> version of the picture in DED's link, which I like) all in Norwegian, so
>> maybe Roger can tell us if it's just happy retro wool-gathering (like
>> Doc
>> Savage climbing aboard his Zep attached to the Empire State Building
>> mooring mast--that didn't work out either) or if Dassault figures that
>> Richard Branson is having too much fun killing people and they want in
>> on
>> the fun.
>>
>> http://www.vg.no/forbruker/reise/luftfart/luftens-fremtidige-cruiseskip/a/23269543/
>>
>> http://travelnews.no/2014/08/10/fly/fremtidens-cruiseskip-luften/
>>
>> http://travelnews.no/tag/luftskip/
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I stumbled across this ad for Dassault Systemes recently and my first
>> > thought was Traveller! The link brings you to a picture of the cruise
>> > ship without all the distracting text.
>> >
>> > http://static.travelnews.no/uploads/2014/08/Luftskip.jpg
>> >
>> > \_/
>> > DED
>> > TNE @ Yahoo ml Admin
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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wouldn't trust it...
I've seen some pretty weird ads in the aviation press. There was a crazy,
"we rule everything" ad from the Rosocopter or whoever, and then an
article about somebody's aviation experience where the illo is a radial
engine with a big mirror in front of the cylinders. Sure, it's pretty,
reflecting the sunset and all that, but the engine won't work. So much for
all their aviation experience.
> The image is being used to flog Dassault's product lifecycle management
> software suite, rather than any proposed hardware:
> http://www.3ds.com/industries/aerospace-defense/if-we/
>
> Best copy I've found:
> http://i.imgur.com/DKfwMgf.jpg
>
> Artist/photographer is Erik Almås:
> http://www.yatzer.com/Erik-Almas-Dassault-Systemes
> http://www.erikalmas.com/
>
>
>
> On 2015-01-24 12:46, [Traveller_TNE] wrote:
>>
>> Yikes. That pictures scares the hell out of me. It's a gorgeous picture,
>> and good Traveller fodder, but the reference to Dassault requires me to
>> think of it real-world, and that makes me very unhappy. The CG (center
>> of
>> gravity, not contra-gravity) on that thing is way out of whack, and if
>> it
>> isn't, the envelope is way too small. Zeps all carry water ballast, but
>> they never carry up at the very top as it would be too unstable. So to
>> get
>> the CG far enough down they've got a lot more ballast at the bottom, and
>> that envelope can't carry enough hydrogen, let alone helium, to float
>> it.
>> Unless Dassault is advertising its new CG (contra-gravity, not center of
>> gravity) invention, that sucker is going to roll and all that water and
>> all those nice tourists are going to get dumped. It's probably also
>> pretty
>> cold up there to be strolling around the Promenade Deck.
>>
>> I found three links below (and by the way, the first one has a much
>> larger
>> version of the picture in DED's link, which I like) all in Norwegian, so
>> maybe Roger can tell us if it's just happy retro wool-gathering (like
>> Doc
>> Savage climbing aboard his Zep attached to the Empire State Building
>> mooring mast--that didn't work out either) or if Dassault figures that
>> Richard Branson is having too much fun killing people and they want in
>> on
>> the fun.
>>
>> http://www.vg.no/forbruker/reise/luftfart/luftens-fremtidige-cruiseskip/a/23269543/
>>
>> http://travelnews.no/2014/08/10/fly/fremtidens-cruiseskip-luften/
>>
>> http://travelnews.no/tag/luftskip/
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I stumbled across this ad for Dassault Systemes recently and my first
>> > thought was Traveller! The link brings you to a picture of the cruise
>> > ship without all the distracting text.
>> >
>> > http://static.travelnews.no/uploads/2014/08/Luftskip.jpg
>> >
>> > \_/
>> > DED
>> > TNE @ Yahoo ml Admin
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
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> Edward Swatschek -
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> ------------------------------------
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo Groups Links
>
>
>
>