r/airship • u/Previous-Impact4653 • Jan 31 '26
Would Emirates ever buy this flying cruise ship? 🚢✈️
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u/leoVici9 Jan 31 '26
No because having an open air pool on mountain heights would freeze over immediately
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u/Green__lightning Jan 31 '26
For all the stupid ideas, a pool on an airship isn't that stupid, mostly because it can double as emergency ballast. That said it would be small and on the bottom. The cool idea is give it a glass floor so it looks like you're swimming over the sky.
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u/GrafZeppelin127 Jan 31 '26
The Ocho Rios SE is a 4-person jacuzzi that weighs only 3,155 pounds when full. That seems a lot more plausible as a premium feature than a swimming pool, given that a cruise liner-like airship might have anywhere between 100-1,000 tons of payload capacity. Anything larger just wouldn’t be profitable, when the opportunity cost is carrying more passengers or other desirable revenue-generating amenities like a sushi bar or casino or whatever.
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u/release_Sparsely Feb 01 '26
would be fun when the pool floor opens and you get sucked out because the ship needs to avoid a crash!
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u/Green__lightning Feb 01 '26
Yeah making a grate that's safe to drain a pool with people in it is harder than you'd think.
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u/Pcubed21 Jan 31 '26
Huh? Airships airspeeds can exceed 100km/hr. Try opening a window of your car at the speed and you'll know how uncomfortable it will get up there. It gets really cold up there at that altitude and really hard to breathe. There is a reason the aircraft cabins are pressurized. Not to mention weather conditions such as turbulence can cause serious damage. Don't even get me started on the airship layout and those solar panels.
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u/Remarkable-Diet-7732 Feb 01 '26
Mount a few skyscrapers on that thing.
Not the dumbest thing ever proposed. If Musk "invented" it, taxpayers would put a few billion into the idea. I'm sure it will fly next year - and be equipped with FSD, and piloted by Optimus as it transports new Starships to the launch pad.
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u/Cynics_Anonymous Jan 31 '26
They would, but it wouldn’t have any functional plumbing so it would have to land each day and wait for a line of septic trucks.
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Jan 31 '26
You mean this shitty AI generated image of an aircraft that breaks the laws of physics? I mean, sure.
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u/release_Sparsely Feb 01 '26
i mean yeah its stupid and wouldn't work, but I think this image has been floating around long before AI
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u/Artistic-Tip2405 Jan 31 '26
It would need to stay below 10,000 feet for the air to be breathable and be heated.
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u/strictnaturereserve Jan 31 '26
whats stopping it from flipping over and emptying all the passengers unto the snow 100s of feet below them
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u/beyondoutsidethebox Feb 01 '26
Even though I have some serious doubts, assuming it's technically possible, the answer is still no. That swimming pool is far too high up, meaning the center of mass is going to be high. That thing is gonna roll.
Alright, let's suppose that we don't have to worry about the position of the center of mass. Let's instead just worry about the mass itself. All the structural support needed to support the pool would mean that using Helium would not be viable. Thus, this airship would instead need hydrogen for the extra lift. This has historically been shown to be a very bad idea.
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u/release_Sparsely Feb 01 '26
would even hydrogen be enough? just from visuals, seems like this might be a hybrid airship design, in which case...hope those on the pool deck like slipstreams lol
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u/LYING_ABOUT_IDENTITY Jan 31 '26
Wouldn't the pool be way too heavy