Two nuclear airship projects: original Danish-Dutch 1969 and Russian reprint 1971

[russiafareast1972]

Two color projects from youth magazines. The project on the right - Russian 1971 - has been very famous in social networks and on websites since 2011. White and red nuclear airship of the future. Soviet magazine TM 8 1971 Atomic lord of the sky. But in 2022 a German portal of retrofuturism published the second project, it is on the left. He is unknown and forgotten. Danish-Dutch children's comic magazine Pep 1969 13 September. Compare these two projects. They are absolutely identical. Twins. But the Danish-Dutch is the original 1969. Our Russian is published two years after. Reasonable conclusion: the famous Russian project is reprint? But why is there no link to the original in the TM magazine? Because the USSR signed the copyright convention in 1973.

 

[aerocrat]

Atomic- , Solar- and Vacuum-Powered Airport-Laden Dirigibles and Other Wide Ideas of Future Flight

JF Ptak Science Books A post ("Nuclear Everything") over at Dark Roasted Blend that featured a magnificent and stodgy atomic-powered zeppelin pushed me into this short visual note on differentially-powered airships, and then in general about airships with airports on...

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[russiafareast1972]

I know. The very first project is American. Mechanics Illustrated Frank Tinsley 1956.

 

[Nicknick]

In reality airships use estimated 98% of internal volume to transort helium or hydrogen, none of those futuristic layouts could fly in our athmosphere...

 

[publiusr]

Not our planet of course.

If an airship did have an atomic plant—and ion wind propulsion…how fast could it go maxed out? WWII fighter speeds? The ion drive could turn drag into thrust if the rigid frame blades passed through the envelope—an air-warp nacelle.