The Future of Airships

Mar 8
08:56

2010

Michael John Arnold

Michael John Arnold

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Scientists are now involved in the development of airships that can serve us better. Many research institutions are involved in the research for findi...

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Scientists are now involved in the development of airships that can serve us better. Many research institutions are involved in the research for finding ways to improve airships. These airships will soon replace the airplanes due to its efficiency,The Future of Airships Articles less fuel consumption and other benefits. Airships are featured in many of the latest Hollywood movies. Although, they don’t exist nowadays, these films give new ideas and possibilities to scientists for making of airships.

Currently, airships are serving us for advertisement, defenses, transportation, and many other purposes. However, it still needs improvement in many aspects. One of the major disadvantages is that they use helium gas to lift up and this gas is highly flammable which can cause serious problems. Moreover, they have less speed compared to airplanes. Scientists are dedicated to making airships that can fly at the same or at higher speeds, hoping to replace airplanes.

Airplanes consume a lot of fuel due to their flights moving from one place to another. Additionally, they make a lot noise due to their heavy engines. On the other hand, resources are scarce and can serve us for many other purposes. Most of the researchers are of the opinion that we should think of the other ways so that we can save fuel. The governments of United States, Germany, Australia, and many other countries are also well aware of this problem and they have allocated a special budget for research purposes.

In this situation, the future of airships looks very bright because governments are motivating scientist with grants so that they can properly work out to find a best solution. In the past, airships were only utilized in wars as they played a vital role in the WWI and WWII. Over time, scientists realized that these airships can also be used for many other purposes, such as advertising, defense, etc. However, currently, more emphasis is given to advertisement through these airships. Blue chip organizations are rapidly adopting this mode of advertising because it is cheap and effective.

Scientists are now working on making an airship that could use less fuel and using other alternative. Currently helium gas is used for lifting these airships but scientists are try to use any other gas instead of helium because helium is a highly flammable gas which could be risky for using in the airships. More ever, they are working on both airplanes and blimps in order to make an effective airship, which could be utilized for moving passengers from one place to other with using less fuel consumption and which could be more environments friendly. We hope that soon we will be having an airship with all these qualities.