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We wrote on our website that the airships at the beginning of the last century made serious competition to airplanes, that is, these giants aeronautics could well defeat this confrontation, and then we would fly on these, in general, much more comfortable and promising, as many scientists say, air apparatuses.
Aircraft won not because they were better then, rather on the contrary, their manufacturers simply had more money and opportunities to influence politics, economics, public opinion and etc.
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But the airships have not sunk completely and irrevocably into oblivion, Today, interest in them is returning again. Suffice it to recall the construction in the UK of the air giant “Airlander”, why some independent researchers talked about the fact that the century of airships will return, and perhaps thanks to Russia.
The information presented to your attention is about this – about airships and about Russia. The fact is that the team of Russian engineers and scientists of the Moscow MAI, Tomsk TUSUR and Russian geographical society is currently preparing for Travel around the world on an airship. Moreover, this flight will be unique, it will pass through the North and South poles.
About this incredible adventure that awaits the brave balloonists of Russia, told at the V International Forum “The Arctic – Territory of Dialogue” Vera Pudkova – Leading Engineer TUSUR:
Imagine this will be the first such flight on airship – immediately through two poles! The main goal of this round the world, of course, not propaganda of airships, but various research tasks along with testing the latest equipment in extreme conditions. So everyone who wants to test their technical news at the level of such extreme, you are welcome.
MAI specialists prepare the airship, flight equipment – TUSUR scientists, but everything related to the choice of route and faultless forecasting of the flight itself – they are responsible for this employees of the Russian Geographical Society. The start of the round-the-world flight on the airship is scheduled for beginning of 2021.
No one knows, maybe the era of airships from this historic moment and begin? And it is quite possible that the most important equipment on this expedition, which requires verification in extreme conditions, there will be an airship itself. And he must to prove their worth and development prospects …
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