{"id":22143,"date":"2024-03-24T11:45:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T01:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/cargolifter-cl-160-fate\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T11:45:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T01:45:12","slug":"the-heavy-lift-airship-that-wasnt-what-happened-to-the-cargo-lifter-cl-160","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=22143","title":{"rendered":"The Heavy-Lift Airship That Wasn&#8217;t: What Happened To The Cargo Lifter CL 160?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CargoLifter CL160 is one of the greatest <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airships\/\">airships<\/a> never made. It may surprise many, but airships never went extinct &#8211; they were just pushed to the corners of aviation by the development of regular aircraft. Airships retain many advantages over their heavier-than-air counterparts &#8211; including their ability to lift heavy loads over long distances to places almost devoid of infrastructure. The proposed 160-ton capability CargoLifer CL160 was one attempt to bring airships into the modern age. Where it failed, others are continuing to push on (such as <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/cargo-airships-analysis\/\">Russia&#39;s Aerosmena, which is trying to make massive cargo-carrying airships a reality<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the CargoLifter CL160 was not to be, many other cargo-lifting airships are in development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,6025,620,567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airship","category-cargo","category-guides"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22144,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22143\/revisions\/22144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}