I am just back from a family trip to the Tropical Islands resort/theme park, located south of Berlin, Germany. It is built inside what has become the
CargoLifter production hangar in another timeline, branching of somewhen around 2000. The hangar is 360m long, 106m high (granting it a claim to the biggest hall in the world and making it quite a sight to behold!). It should have allowed the simultaneous production of two
CL160, rigid cargo airships, 260m in length, with a cargo payload of 160 tons. While the kids had much fun, I felt always accompanied by the ghosts of all the Zeppelins not being built, with the company going bankupt in 2002 without ever completing one. The economic feasibility of the craft has been disputed all along, although it must have been plausible enough to collect about 100 million Euro from investors.