Skyship 5000

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What do you guys think about this?

Length 423ft
Diameter 105ft
Height 150ft
Speed 70mph (est.)
Volume 250, 000cft

>The idea was that the military version be produced first, then a commercial varient, the Skyship 5000 be constructed. The Skyship 5000 was planned to have a 140 seater twin deck gondola.

>Inital specifications were of course to change as with all plans, the contract being for the largest non rigid airship ever produced. An envelope of over 400ft long compared to the 193ft of the Skyship 600. The Volume being of a huge 2,500,000cft (half as much as the R100). The concept was to life a gondola of some 80 ft long comprising of 3 decks, crew accommodation, operations centre and a flight deck. The gondola was made of a modular construction comprising of 3 modules running fore to aft, foreward modules being the pressurised crew compartment, operationals and flight controles. A second module was adapted to carry the fuel and a winching system and the third to house the engines, accessible in flight for servicing. A crew of 15 was to run the ship, mostly to operate the surveillance equipment.

>On 5th June 1987 Westinghouse/Airship Industries were awarded a 170 million dollar contract to design an Operational

>The commercial viability of the Skyship/ Sentinel 5000 never proved as it was the only airship which was planned and almost produced to construction by Airship Industries, yet never flown. From the 10 years which Airship Industries flew their first ship, the company was nearly to the point of producing the first large scale airship which had been seen since the R101.