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what's up everyone John retina from TechnoBuffalo here most days we're bringing you up-to-the-minute news on phones tablets and gaming today though we've got something special we are in Tustin California at the arrows craft hangar taking a look at what the company is hoping is the future this is their LCA or lighter-than-air airship Zeppelin whatever you want to call but make sure you call it the future companies hoping this is gonna have tremendous civilian military and government applications as a way to get a to places where helicopters and planes can't get to in land we just got a tremendous tour of the airship and we've got some technical information let me walk you guys through what this is and what you might see out your window over the next few years why I do believe that this is a historical moment in aviation history and why this is a unique vehicle is basically because as you said and as I told you before this is literally a flying submarine and it's never been proven before so in one hand you have airships which are pressurized balloons basically full of helium that use that that a lightness of the helium to lift away and then on on the other side you have the back history of the Hindenburg which is a which is a rigid airship so this vehicle it's combining the airship world with the rigid structure of the past and bringing the technologies of the submarines which allows to compress and decompress helium to control the buoyancy let's say you have a bag a plastic bag full of air pull of air in front of you and you suck the air inside of it so now the air goes into your lungs this is what we do when we compress right we put that into lunch this goes into this machines and it into this envelope now the back of the bag goes like smaller like that like collapses yeah but this this aircraft cannot collapse because it's rigid right is a rigid thing so what we do is we have this wide air bag together the air has to get in and that is actually this what you see it the wide bags that you here those are like the key technologies because it's not about how much you can compress but it's about the air that you can put in like in the Supermarine it's not about it's about the water that can get into the tanks to make it go down yes all right so it's the same thing so actually the key point is trying to get as much air as you can into this bag to make the aircraft heavy and then when you release the helium releases expands and pushes the air out of the bag and now you have less air you have more helium you become more like the problem is like it's never been feasible from the engineering point of view always when you talk about compression or the compression you talk about like rigid metallic cylinders way too heavy for any aircraft to to even think about the math and that this vehicle here is 270 feet long 100 feet tall and 75 feet wide it's envelope volume is roughly 700 thousand cubic feet the dry the dry weight of this vehicle with no gas no helium in it weighs roughly 36,000 pounds it's a multi-layered fabric there's there's a couple different materials on this aircraft on the outside the main one that you see there is the silver shiny stuff that is one seven layers fabrics and then you got helium barriers UV protection and other other stuff that we're incorporating this for testing this this vehicle is gonna solve a big niche that we have in the market today of getting to locations around the world that aren't accessible right now or you need to build the runways landing system stuff like this this vehicle could fly in it's got vertical takeoff at full maximum payload that means we can just offload the payload directly down we don't even have to land we could hover the vehicle offload it directly down and then just take off and return to the destination from the engineering perspective we see plenty of applications because we know what's the cap ability the capability of this vehicle is heavy cargo transportation so when you think about cargo transportation you are not limited to anything what do you want to transport we'll be able to transfer them now what I see is a unlimited uses depending on our society needs for instance somebody brought up the idea of FedEx being maybe interested in that because they handle a lot of the mail in this planet and this is such a good idea me from the engineering perspective I wasn't thinking about that I think more of a I would say more of a social benefit I'm thinking about fire fighting like a instead of a especially here in California where we have fires in doing some are very very damaging instead of having like sixteen helicopters going back and forth to the sea picking up the water and doing that you have a 60 tons of water or Regina retardant that can be dropped in one spot very slowly you don't have to go fly way you have to do you can you can choose your target perfectly so you know firefighters I mean but then we have like in the wind industry or the pipe industry where you want to build windmill farms or when you want to bring the oil from Alaska and you don't have the ground is the structure to take your trucks with it with whatever you have to build you have something big enough that transport enough weight that doesn't need infrastructure in the ground you don't have to build the roads for the actual construction to have it so you can do the deliveries in a very very efficient way for instead this one goes down an opera so so I can go this up like that right make sure that it's not touching and then I go here then I go like this that's okay and I can and I can be you know if my aircraft has to be flying this way I can be targeting you know I'm following some on a vehicle or I'm I'm just trying to deliver something towards this side and I mean I'm looking at what those are exactly actually the advantages like you can you can have no limited view around you whether whether the aircraft has to be pointing to some direction or not like you have an advantage of that now after after you see my enthusiasm you understand why I say that this is a this is truly an historical moment because even if it's not something major still is still is a little dot on the aviation history because nobody has ever done something like that and we try and actually no we're not trying to to take anyone out of business because all what exists already it does what it's supposed to do and it serves a purpose it's just there's a gap that nobody has been able to fill and this is what we're doing is filling the gap off of being cheap at the same time as getting a lot of cargo up with nobody can do there's an aircraft has to have you know how to have a huge rail you know like one way to to land and all that so you can you can have aircraft that can lift a lot of weight but can you lift a lot of weight and at the same time be hovering at the same time you can't very important for this people it's the fact that it can take top vertically and you know vertical takeoff and landing is a is a key point in this vehicle the fact that people sometimes don't pay too much attention to that and that they should is because one of the major problems that for instance today as this vehicle has been sponsored by the military from a military point of view you are restricted where you where you going you restrict it to where you can land so having this vehicle being able to offer or not even not even doesn't have to do any it doesn't have to have any infrastructure in the ground keeps all the doors open for delivery for the US military it's like completely unlimited especially when we're talking about like countries like Afghanistan with a very complicated orography on the terrain and if you don't want to have a specific target on the ground which is your Airport where where's where's your aircraft is gonna go then this vehicle is at total solution so we've had a lot of incredible opportunity to TechnoBuffalo we've interviewed heads of companies and taking a look at some of the most cutting-edge products the world has to offer this though today at the aircraft hangar might take the cake is one of the most incredible things that we've seen I hope that the video displays the scale and the technology of this airship and what went into it it's absolutely incredible experience to be in that cockpit stand outside the hangar and see the size see the scope and here the application we really might be looking at the future of transport and the future of hopefully getting care to those that need it in places where airplanes or helicopters are unable to land hope you guys enjoyed this really incredible tour of the aircraft behind me thank you to the aircraft people I'm John render from TechnoBuffalo and I'll see you guys you know it's an old idea but it takes a lot of imagination and a lot of you know I would say like brainstorming to make things happen and make it look like it's a simple way you know how they say like oh they always say that in science and engineering they say the simple stuff is there is the most beautiful one is the one that really shows you know how successful the idea could be you