Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Whatever happened to the mile-long Freedom Ship?


From ALL VIEWS web site...
By Dave Stancliff
It would make the Queen Elizabeth II look like a peanut shell bobbing in the ocean. It was to be a floating city with condominium housing for 50,000 people. Projected to be a mile long, with an airstrip to accommodate turboprop aircraft, it would have a duty-free and rapid transit.
What would have been the largest unconventional ship (more like a series of linked barges) in the world, the Freedom Ship, is still confined to blueprints, blustering, and the hovering specter of lawsuits.

Read the rest of this story here.

No comments:

When is a War, not a War?

As the families of the six dead service members who were killed by Iranian drones and bombs are mourning their loss Republicans are claiming...