Vacuum airship

A vacuum airship, also known as a vacuum balloon, is a hypothetical airship that is evacuated rather than filled with a lighter-than-air gas such as hydrogen or helium. This would be the ultimate expression of lifting power per volume displaced. The pressure difference across the wall of the balloon presents major engineering problems, and this has resulted in no practical applications.

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