Well that's a good start...

I was duped

This is not news in itself, it happens quite a lot and I've never blogged about it before. But then I've never blogged while being duped about the thing I've been duped about.

If you haven't gathered by now there is no such thing as the Aircruise, it was a design exercise by SeymourPowell, a company that has designed vibrators, tampon applicators and the twist-top Lynx cans. In my defence I got it off the news, it's the news's fault, blame the news not me...

Not quite the future I had in mind

When I first heard, I was distraught, the beautiful future was over. But then I realised that what was most beautiful was the concept of majestic hotels floating serenely above our heads. If we all work together we can make this future a reality. There are several problems with the design though:

1. Hydrogen. Mr Hindenburg showed us the innate problems with that particular gas. The best alternative is Helium, however its density's pretty much double Hydrogen's and therefore we'll need twice as much. 
2. Shape. A big diamond with a very big, flat face is the perfect shape if you're a banker trying to make good to your children after their magical nanny made them realise how lacking you are as a father (too obscure?) but not so much for a flying hotel. It'd need massive amounts of thrust to go anywhere and any wind would ruin everything. How about we just turn it on its side though? Then its super thinness becomes its greatest asset. Aerodynamicism was never a strong point of Blimps.
3. The fact we don't have any money... Drugs? Prostitution? We'll find a way.

So, what I'm imagining here is an airship twice the length of Canary Wharf, as thick as the original, with loads more engines, some control surfaces wouldn't go amiss either. But the message stays the same, Travel in The Future can be beautiful, slow and luxurious. Wait a moment, I'll do a mockup.

Gee, that is crude. But you can just imagine how great it'd be...

The dream goes that 2100, when a schoolchild is learning about the History of air travel he'll learn that the Aircruise concept was never supposed to be made but then people loved it so much it was made real.

Now who has 600,000 cubic meters of helium?

Salutations and the Aircruise

This is, or will be at least, a blog about things, Aural Sex, my music blog, is still my main baby, but this is just like one I babysit sometimes.

This will not be a blog about me, I'm not that egotistical brave, it will be a blog about things I see. Today what I see is the Aircruise:

Some very rich people have been thinking about planes. They don't like them that much, they're crowded, they're noisy and there's plebs in them. And then after the plane you have the hassle of checking into your 5 star hotel and relaxing in the hot-tub. This is all far to proletariat for them and so they came up with Aircruise.

What if you went into a hotel and when you came out you were where you wanted to be?

Then you'd have sailed across the Atlantic in an Airship shaped like a kite and taller than Canary Wharf, powered by solar power and hydrogen. You'd have spent your time with 100 other massively rich people in a penthouse apartment with all round views of the open sky. It'll take 36 hours from London to New York and 3 days Chicago to Singapore.



Imagine seeing a couple of them hanging above the London skyline lazing along at 90 miles an hour...
THE FUTURE ARRIVES IN 2015 AND IT IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I HAVE EVER SEEN.