A LinkedIn conversation: http://lnkd.in/bynwF7S
For more personal and leisurely travels, helium balloons with solar arrays and electric propulsion and attitude adjustment would seem obvious.
I’d like to see the skies filled with vacationing aerial nomads.
Personally I’d love to see more LTA craft out there. I’m a fan of sailing and a personal dirigible appeals to that sense of “We’ll get there, eventually”
In fact, that’s the advertising campaign – An unfeasibly attractive couple and their 2.4 kids lounges on a sunbathing platform. Looks like they’re on a cruise ship. Camera pans up and out and they’re 1000 ft up, where the air is clear, sparkling seas beneath them.
We’ll get you there. Eventually.
I love the concept.
Apparently we’ve passed peak helium though – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/7959624/World-helium-reserves-are-running-out-Nobel-laureate-claims.html
I’ll accept a electric turboprop 😉