Airship Programme

Hi Sam,

Just a quick post about brief. We spoke last week about the potential for an airship terminal which would allow for activity at Farnborough Aerodrome outside of current restrictions, with an additional idea that it would provide essentially a sleeper service. I have been looking at the speed of airships, and although here is an airship which travels at 300kmh it achieves this at high altitudes and would be unsuitable for my purposes. From looking at various airships it seems that 80mph would be a conservative/realistic estimate.

I have also managed to rip some CAD drawings of the Hindenburg from a PDF, and with a bit of work they have turned out pretty good. The accommodation is all contained within the rigid structure of the airship along with crew's quarters etc. The gondola suspended underneath is purely for the pilot navigating the airship.

So with this information I think the program works best for destinations between 8 and 14 hours away, and would be seen as a more luxury way to travel. You could be provided with a bedroom making the experience much more like a cruise than current airline travel. Potentially a reaction to the fact that flying is seen as more of chore now compared to previously when it was more of a novelty? With the sleeper airship programme the flight itself becomes less of an event with the focus being on arriving refreshed as if you haven't just made a long journey.

EDIT: here is a quick image with 3 airships based upon the hindenburg imposed over a potential site.