Airship looks like our Transport?

[JDW]

Is it just me, or does the concept Airship from Northrop Grumman look like our Transport?

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/nort ... endurance/

[Roux Le Corps]

time to update transport look? hahaha

[Saberuneko]

Nah, I think it's completely different. Just to start, looks like a dirigible, not like a VTOL aircraft.

[JDW]

Saberuneko: i think you are right, it looks like a modified dirigible...

[Wisler]

ok first off the US military has already copied our vtol designs...and now our transport design....too bad its open source, or we cud take legal action, they also have laser in research

[Roux Le Corps]

maybe if we ask them nicely and bluff legal action they'll let us have some? rofl

[Kacen]

I've always been under the impression that the WZ Transport was partially a dirigible.

It looks too big for the propellers to lift it by itself, plus note what looks like containers for helium or hydrogen on the outside.

[JDW]

It looks too big for the propellers to lift it by itself...

I agree. But since it's the year 2100, we can't compare it to the technology of our time. It wouldn't be fair, and the possibilities are endless. It could even be using Magnetic Levitation technology, who knows..

Imagine if Steve Jobs went back in time a century back and said that it is possible to communicate with someone through tiny brick like instruments (iPhone, for anyone who didn't get that). I bet those people would have laughed their asses off and called him a crazy.

[Kacen]

It looks too big for the propellers to lift it by itself...

I agree. But since it's the year 2100, we can't compare it to the technology of our time. It wouldn't be fair, and the possibilities are endless. It could even be using Magnetic Levitation technology, who knows..

Dude.

If it had magnetic lift technology then why by T3 don't you even have that?

Oh, then again, one would assume you'd have VTOL from the get-go...reverse engineer the transport!

I still think it's partially a balloon.

[JDW]

Kacen, I'm just saying it can be anything you would like it to be. Since there are no specifications available on it's design..

Regards,
j0shdrunk0nwar.