Can Tatas save the aviation industry
June 26th 2009 05:34
Can Ratan Tata save Air India. The common man may think not but pause for a second. Let us see the pros and cons.
Today Air India does not have money to pay its pilots they say. So tell me something new. The airlines of the world are running into debt and the future looks bleak but what is needed today is a change a technology to make things more fuel efficient and less expensive. Does such a technology exist?
To save the aviation industry the time has come to bring back the zeppelin. A zeppilin unlike an aeroplane is lighter more effective when it comes to cargo and less dependent on passenger traffic. Unlike a cargo aircraft the zeppelin can carry huge amounts use less energy and transport more at desirable speeds, while it may not attain the supersonic speeds passenger aircraft will eventually cargo transport does not require such lightening speed either. Slower passenger transport with luxury liners in the form of skyliners rather than ocean liners could be the future of aviation.
The Zeppelin which was used by the Germans in world war I never really took off again. Since it was filled with helium gas and the world was obsessed with war it was highly inflammable and an easy target. Today there are several super light and superstron metals which could be used to create vacuum based zeppelins which could be given the benefit of modern aerodynamic shapes and modern engines. These ocean liners of the sky could be like gentle whales floating from one country to another ferrying passengers and cargo, so that the aviation industry does not collapse under the burden of its own weight.
For industrial houses like the Tatas where there is no dearth of Research and Development and a desire to do something new for the country the zeppelin is one line they need to investigate thoroughly.
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