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02/15/06 05:52 AM: Interesting Air-Hotel
So check this out:
It’s the flying hotel of the future. Yeah, here at WWU we are also betting it’s never going to be built, and it looks rather ridiculous. But all of that aside, it’s kind of interesting to consider an air-hotel/air-cruise ship that could travel the world at a whopping 176 mph at 8,000 feet. Yeah, I think already tried something like this before.
From the article:
This two-football-fields-long concept airship is the brainchild of Igor Pasternak, whose privately-funded California firm, Worldwide Aeros Corporation, is in the early stages of developing a prototype and expects to have one completed by 2010. Pasternak says several cruise ship companies have expressed interest in the project, and for good reason: The craft would have a range of several thousand miles and, with an estimated top speed of 174 mph, could traverse the continental U.S. in about 18 hours. During the flight, passengers would peer at national landmarks just 8,000 feet below or, if they weren’t captivated by the view, the cavernous interior would easily accommodate such amenities as luxury staterooms, restaurants, even a casino.
Sweet. So what we’ll have is a bunch of these hovering just outside of U.S. airspace with their airborne casinos.
Personally, I’m more of a fan of the Airbus A380. Well, I’m not a huge fan of Airbus in general (Boeing will always have a place in my American heart), but the A380 is pretty damn awesome.
