Football and Aviation

gizmag Article: The Walrus: the US Army contemplates building an aircraft the size of a football field

"Whilst this would completely rewrite the way that war is conducted, the Walrus - a massive lozenge-shaped blimp the size of a football field capable of transporting 500 tons at a time - could offer solutions to myriad peacetime problems, opening land-locked countries to trade, enabling heavy construction materials to be delivered into urban centres with minimum disruption, freeing our highways of high volume, heavy loads, offering a more robust and agile air transportation network capable of absorbing disruptions due to weather or attack."

This is especially big news because the NFL has just announced the "Walrus" as the site of Super Bowl L.