Airship Altitude Record Broken: 95,085 feet

Oct
24

We steamfolk just love our airships.

JP Aerospace ultimately plans to put one in orbit, preceeded by crewed stratospheric sky stations beginning very soon.

 

In the meantime, they did this over the weekend:

 

http://jpaerospace.com/blog/?p=3742

Absolutely incredible. Verne, Santos Dumont, and others would be happy right now, I think.

 

2 comments

Avariel Falcon's picture
Reply by Avariel Falcon | Mon, 24 October - 9:19 am SLT

Oh, this is an airship in that RL game. Most impressive!

Little Mystery's picture
Reply by Little Mystery | Tue, 25 October - 3:57 pm SLT

Wow, What a view!