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I've sadly neglected my Helium heads for far too long now, and I hope this makes up for my absence a bit?

This is the Sentinel 1000, Westinghouse's hopes of salvaging Roger Munk's failed dream of making a very large, modern radar blimp similar to the K and M class ships made by Goodyear back in the 50's. In truth, Roger Munk of Airship Industries of the U.K. actually wanted to make far larger ships than even this 220 foot, 67 meter long monster with Roger's dream project being called the Sentinel 5000 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airship_… but financial issues meant the collapse of Airship Industries, and after a few changes of hands, ownership of existing 500 and 600 model blimps along with the Sentinel 1000 proof of concept ship came into possession by Westinghouse of the United States.

Westinghouse tired to keep the project alive in the minds of the U.S. Navy by taking further upgrades available to the 600 model ships and incorporating them into the S-1000 hoping to push for what Westinghouse execs believe to be a more viable and attainable goal, turning the concept ship into the production model rather than the massive S-5000, however even this was not enough to keep things aloft. Budget cutbacks, other competing projects within the US-Navy, and other factors finally shut the project down, so sadly in the end S-1000 became much a One-Off ship as Goodyear's GZ-22 had.

The whereabouts and condition of S-1000 remains a mystery except to Westinghouse and Naval officials. It's not certain if Westinghouse had plans of marking what examples of the S-1000 remained in inventory to interested parties other than the Navy, for use as large commercial ships for advertising, and or tourist flights, but considering how easy in concept turning a model 600 into the larger 1000 was, had the market been favorable for Westinghouse it's likely all existing model 600s been converted to their larger sibling once the last holdings by Airship Industries been absorbed by Westinghouse.

It this had happened it's likely the S-1000 ships would be flying along side Goodyear's new partnership with old time ally Zeppelin's new NT ships in today's skies. At least one can speculate and dream!

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This is in the process of becoming a publicly available model once error checking is completed. Also beauty and comparative images of what the S-1000 looks like beside a model 600 are in the works, and in the interest of soothing curiosity, I'll even toss in some profiles of the Zeppelin NT101 along with these ships, and perhaps include a legacy Goodyear in the bunch for chuckles.

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Sentinel 1000 originally created by Airship Industries of the U.K. Roger Munk and John Wood~
All holdings then became property of Westinghouse U.S.~
All remaining flyable 600 ships are now part of Airship Management Services U.S.

SketchUp works by moi

Description
I've sadly neglected my Helium heads for far too long now, and I hope this makes up for my absence a bit?

This is the Sentinel 1000, Westinghouse's hopes of salvaging Roger Munk's failed dream of making a very large, modern radar blimp similar to the K and M class ships made by Goodyear back in the 50's. In truth, Roger Munk of Airship Industries of the U.K. actually wanted to make far larger ships than even this 220 foot, 67 meter long monster with Roger's dream project being called the Sentinel 5000 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airship_… but financial issues meant the collapse of Airship Industries, and after a few changes of hands, ownership of existing 500 and 600 model blimps along with the Sentinel 1000 proof of concept ship came into possession by Westinghouse of the United States.

Westinghouse tired to keep the project alive in the minds of the U.S. Navy by taking further upgrades available to the 600 model ships and incorporating them into the S-1000 hoping to push for what Westinghouse execs believe to be a more viable and attainable goal, turning the concept ship into the production model rather than the massive S-5000, however even this was not enough to keep things aloft. Budget cutbacks, other competing projects within the US-Navy, and other factors finally shut the project down, so sadly in the end S-1000 became much a One-Off ship as Goodyear's GZ-22 had.

The whereabouts and condition of S-1000 remains a mystery except to Westinghouse and Naval officials. It's not certain if Westinghouse had plans of marking what examples of the S-1000 remained in inventory to interested parties other than the Navy, for use as large commercial ships for advertising, and or tourist flights, but considering how easy in concept turning a model 600 into the larger 1000 was, had the market been favorable for Westinghouse it's likely all existing model 600s been converted to their larger sibling once the last holdings by Airship Industries been absorbed by Westinghouse.

It this had happened it's likely the S-1000 ships would be flying along side Goodyear's new partnership with old time ally Zeppelin's new NT ships in today's skies. At least one can speculate and dream!

*******

This is in the process of becoming a publicly available model once error checking is completed. Also beauty and comparative images of what the S-1000 looks like beside a model 600 are in the works, and in the interest of soothing curiosity, I'll even toss in some profiles of the Zeppelin NT101 along with these ships, and perhaps include a legacy Goodyear in the bunch for chuckles.

*******

Sentinel 1000 originally created by Airship Industries of the U.K. Roger Munk and John Wood~
All holdings then became property of Westinghouse U.S.~
All remaining flyable 600 ships are now part of Airship Management Services U.S.

SketchUp works by moi