Given the state of play with helium there may be a challenge there. Hydrogen is too dangerous and helium pretty expensive. I’ve no idea if hot air is even remotely viable (it is less dense than cold air, but not a great deal less) and you have to burn something to keep it hot, and burning stuff is going out of fashion.
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There was a company that was working on an airship that looked like Kirk Douglas’s chin but I don’t think it got off the ground 
here it is, looks like they’re still around
Didn’t Bruce Dickinson invest in this?
My Dad, who always had a nose for a dog of an investment, bought shares in a company called Airship Industries some time in the 80s.
Pretty certain that never got off the drawing board either
You haven’t changed a bit Wayne.
Who is the lad?
Those monkeys must be minted by now.
Probably a pic of me with one at pinner fair somewhere.
Tada Poland 1931
Comfortingly mad picture. Do all those lads fit into those two teensy tanks?
Can anyone explain the thinking behind berets? They don’t protect you from the sun or shrapnel or someone swinging a sword or iron bar. They don’t protect you against the wet. They don’t keep your ears warm in the cold. I kind of get them as a fashion item but for the military? They’re fecking useless.
On this day, 40-odd years ago look what £1.50 bought you!
I want Want WANT a wearable tank! 
Never knew the YMCA were in Poland
Spoonerisms eh?
“I talked him into walking there,” Afshin Shahidi remembers. “It was a beautiful New York day. I don’t think people were able to compute the fact that it was Prince walking by them—they just felt someone special was nearby.”
