Wind resistance is another problem - the constructors have yet to prove that crew and cargo would not be exposed to serious risk in a real gale - and supply of helium could prove difficult.
Because of their size - each craft will be 260 metres long - CargoLifter is not certain that German or international air transport authorities will grant them permission to fly. It says that being able to fly heavy machinery around the world quickly and at minimum cost will solve a perennial problem.Ī prototype has been constructed, but technical and bureaucratic problems may prevent them from taking off at all. The company believes the key to the airships' eventual success will be their ability to pick up and unload cargoes without touching down. Der Konzernabschluss und der Jahresabschluss der CargoLifter AG zum 31.August 2001 sind von der Ernst & Young Deutsche Allgemeine Tr euhand AG Wirtschaftsprüfungs-gesellschaft, Berlin, geprüft und mit einem uneinge-schränkten Bestätigungsvermerk versehen. Zudem als Open-Access-Version verfügbar unter: FU-Berlin: Dissertationen Online. Mandate als Vorstand der CargoLifter AG für die nächsten fünf J ahre wahrnehmen. The company, which envisages a fleet of up to 200 craft, says its airships will have a range of some 6,000 miles, enabling them to cross the Atlantic. Philipp Hermanns: Organizational Hubris Aufstieg und Fall einer Celebrity Firm am Beispiel der CargoLifter AG. That tragedy ended the further development of airships as a serious form of commercial air transport.ĬargoLifter plans to avoid the dangers inherent to the original Zeppelins by filling its airships with inert helium gas instead of highly flammable hydrogen. The stock market launch came 63 years after one of the original Zeppelins, the Hindenburg, burst into flames while landing in New Jersey and crashed, killing 36 passengers and crew. The German company, whose headquarters are on a former Soviet airfield outside Berlin, raised £75m from the launch.ĬargoLifter's managing director, Carl von Gablenz, said yesterday that the planned airship amounted to a technical wonder that would put German engineering at the forefront of air transport innovation. CargoLifter AG's airship, which is scheduled to be airborne by 2003, will be capable of lifting the equivalent of 10 fully loaded trucks.
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