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Ladies & gents, I give you the future of luxury air travel...

post #1 of 17
2/5/10 at 12:08am
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Design company Seymourpowell has unveiled a new transport concept, the Aircruise - a giant, vertical airship powered by natural energy and designed to carry travellers in style and luxury...

...The Aircruise craft stands over 265 metres high and is filled with 330,000 cubic metres of hydrogen gas...

...Aircruise is the concept design for a hotel in the sky, with low passenger numbers and huge internal spaces offering room for living, dining and relaxing, as well as scope for dramatic and inspirational public spaces...

...Originally a self-generated project by the designers, Samsung Construction and Trading have embraced the idea and appointed Seymourpowell to refine the concept.










I kinda adore the Our Man Flint retro design in the interior.

More pics here
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post #2 of 17
2/5/10 at 1:03am
I guess Hindenburg II was a bad name...
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post #3 of 17
2/5/10 at 1:28am
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Originally Posted by Nick Nunziata View Post
I guess Hindenburg II was a bad name...
Well it wasn't just the hydrogen that made the Hindenburg flammable, The fact that it was make out of fabric painted with a paint, which was basically thermite, in order to retain the hydrogen gas, did add to the intensity of the flames.
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post #4 of 17
2/5/10 at 1:31am
This won't end well...

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post #5 of 17
2/5/10 at 1:35am
Seems like someone's head is filled with lighter than air gas.
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post #6 of 17
2/5/10 at 11:40am
This is another one of those things they're talking about for Dubai, right? Because I can't see this thing making shit hovering over Chicago or something.

I *can* see it being used as an ark out of Detroit, though.
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post #7 of 17
2/5/10 at 11:52am
This thing looks like it belongs on Bespin.
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post #8 of 17
2/5/10 at 12:00pm
It'll all be fun and games until a giant tree shows up and eats it.
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post #9 of 17
2/5/10 at 12:02pm
Thats the kind of thing I expect to be seeing in the 21st century.

I still feel cheated by the lack of flying cars when we hit the year 2000.
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post #10 of 17
2/5/10 at 12:24pm
In all honesty I think it's phenomenal and I would love to see it happen. But you want to talk about an easy target...

SLOW. HUGE. FILLED WITH EXPLOSIVE GAS.

What could go wrong?
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post #11 of 17
2/5/10 at 3:28pm
Well the views would certainly beat the ones on ocean cruises...
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post #12 of 17
2/5/10 at 3:38pm
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Originally Posted by Nick Nunziata View Post
In all honesty I think it's phenomenal and I would love to see it happen. But you want to talk about an easy target...

SLOW. HUGE. FILLED WITH EXPLOSIVE GAS.
Oh come on now Nick, that just a ludicrous hyperbole. You just described a good 1/3 of all Americans.
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post #13 of 17
2/5/10 at 4:02pm
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Originally Posted by Nick Nunziata View Post
In all honesty I think it's phenomenal and I would love to see it happen. But you want to talk about an easy target...

SLOW. HUGE. FILLED WITH EXPLOSIVE GAS.

What could go wrong?
I really doubt it would go up like the Hindenburg, people have been arguing for years what was more flammable the Hindenburg or the hydrogen gas.
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post #14 of 17
2/5/10 at 4:05pm
I sense the making of a great Mythbusters episode.
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post #15 of 17
2/5/10 at 4:38pm


The Monarch does not approve of this blatant thievery of the design of his secret cocoon lair.
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post #16 of 17
2/5/10 at 4:39pm
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I sense the making of a great Mythbusters episode.
Nova beat them to it
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post #17 of 17
2/5/10 at 4:54pm
Mythbusters already did an episode on the Hindenburg.
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