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The world's largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley (techcrunch.com)
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The world's largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley::As dawn breaks over Silicon Valley, the world is getting its first look at Pathfinder 1, a prototype electric airship that its maker LTA Research hopes

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Not as large as the Cargolifter, which has only been built as 1:8 model for testing, but still impressing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ok? You can't really call it the largest airship when it was never built.

I propose a new airship design called Cargohauler, it's basically a Cargolifter but scaled up 2x. Your puny Cargolifter is nothing in comparison to my Cargohauler

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This just in, I am proposing a new design called the JumboPumper. It is like your puny Cargohauler, but 4x as large!

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

I just stated that there was a more ambitious project that would have worked, but unfortunately ran out of money. I am impressed that Pathfinder 1 was actually built.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One-upping is aggressive. The better way to say it would be: "there was a more ambitious project that would have worked, but unfortunately ran out of money".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

OK. I didn't intend to sound aggressive.

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

Pathfinder 1 is only built at 1:10 scale though, so it's actually much larger than Cargolifter.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The article states Pathfinder 1 is 124 m long, but does not say that its a 1:10 model. However, Cargolifter CL160 would have been 260 m long.