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The world's largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley (techcrunch.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

The market for this must be literally dozens of people.

Maybe cargo, not people.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Not a chance. If you're paying for air freight it's because you need something delivered now. If you don't need it fast, then train/truck shipping is more cost effective.

While Pathfinder 1 can carry about four tons of cargo in addition to its crew, water ballast and fuel, future humanitarian airships will need much larger capacities.

By comparison, the Airbus A350-900 has a payload capacity of 53 tons, and the newer A350F version can carry 111 tons.

Even if they manage to triple the payload capacity, the A350F can carry 10x the weight.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If they send a bunch of them and they replace container ship traffic, however- how much less pollution is that?

Not saying they don’t face an extremely uphill battle to scale enough for that to make sense (we all know the green angle alone won’t be enough even if it should be…)