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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s Russia’s “flying saucer”
Published: 03 March, 2010, 13:17
Edited: 20 July, 2010, 10:10
Photo from locomosky.ru
TAGS: Russia, SciTech, Travel, Vehicles
Russia has launched a program to build a powerful, multi-purpose airship that will certainly cause many people on the ground to take notice.
The “Locomoskayner” airship takes to the air with nothing more than helium, but will also have special outfitted hot air cells to regulate its buoyancy, RIA Novosti news agency reported.
Vladimir Kremlev, RT. Click to enlarge
Propulsion of the craft is provided by several electric motors, and small wings on the periphery of its disc-shaped hull give the vehicle extra lift in flight. The aircrafts unusual shape, which strikingly resembles an unidentified flying object (UFO) also gives it extra stability, and ability to resist wind currents to hover for extended periods above targets on the ground.
Varying models of the Locomoskayners are expected to be used for the transportation of people and cargo, as well as surveillance and monitoring. The largest version in the works will be able to airlift 600 tons.
The five-year project is based in the city of Ulyanovsk, some 900 km east from Moscow. The project’s developer, LocomoSky, plans to generate $90 million worth of investment.
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I think if the power souce of a spaceship can use the nuclear power,the outspace research can get more benefit for the time staying and flying at the outspace will be longer,See,you have a disc shape spaceship. I think just make the size of a nuclear-reacter as small as a football.
i think air ships are a great idea thank u for working on the modern concept for all us people of our planet earth regards Christ