This ai n’t no blimp . The first new airship in nearly a half C to birth the the iconic Goodyear logotype is actually a strict dirigible — a good , more efficient , far less explodey var. of gentle wind locomotion than conventional blimps .
Though parliamentary procedure of order of magnitude safer than the ill - fated Hindenberg — switch over the lifting agent from explosive hydrogen helped to nonexplosive He — previous Goodyear blimps have traditionally used the same canonical designing as they did when the company first introduce the fleet in 1925 . Goodyear ’s unexampled Zeppelin NT dirigible , which was unveiled to begin with today , is a basal departure from that figure .
Instead of a soft gasbag that operates as a elephantine helium balloon , the new vas is far more akin to theAeroscraft dirigiblebuilt by Aeros Corp. work up at Goodyear ’s Wingfoot Lake facility near Akron , Ohio and measure out 246 feet in length ( 50 foot longer than its predecessors ) , the Zeppelin NT incorporate a inflexible human body to help support the gasbag . It is also packed with state - of - the - art avionics and a computerized escape control organization rather than the legacy manual controls of current good example .
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What ’s more , the Zeppelin NT is equipped with three engines that leave it to do something the current , dual desexualise - engine figure can not : oscillate in office . So rather than unendingly circling over an event only provide the best shoot angles intermittently , the new poke vectoring NT will be able to stay in plaza for however long the broadcast ’s film director call for . Plus , these buirdly new engine allow for a top speed of 75 miles per hour , 50 percentage quicker than the current models , and are situated higher on the dirigible ’s frame drastically concentrate randomness levels within the passenger gondola .
The first three new airships will roll out out the Wingfoot manufactory later this class and will enroll religious service in the skies above Florida near the start of 2015 . Two more Zeppelin NT ’s are expected to be completed by 2018 . [ GoodyearviaCNet ]
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