The world’s largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley::As dawn breaks over Silicon Valley, the world is getting its first look at Pathfinder 1, a prototype electric airship that its maker LTA Research hopes

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      Ok? You can’t really call it the largest airship when it was never built.

      I propose a new airship design called Cargohauler, it’s basically a Cargolifter but scaled up 2x. Your puny Cargolifter is nothing in comparison to my Cargohauler

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        51 year ago

        This just in, I am proposing a new design called the JumboPumper. It is like your puny Cargohauler, but 4x as large!

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        -31 year ago

        I just stated that there was a more ambitious project that would have worked, but unfortunately ran out of money. I am impressed that Pathfinder 1 was actually built.

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          51 year ago

          One-upping is aggressive. The better way to say it would be: “there was a more ambitious project that would have worked, but unfortunately ran out of money”.

    • @Garbanzo
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      41 year ago

      Pathfinder 1 is only built at 1:10 scale though, so it’s actually much larger than Cargolifter.

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        01 year ago

        The article states Pathfinder 1 is 124 m long, but does not say that its a 1:10 model. However, Cargolifter CL160 would have been 260 m long.