Breaking news, suitcases and other debris was found by Greek oil tanker Elka Athina in the Malakka Strait.

It actually crashed yesterday (or earlier). The image at below site was posted at another forum yesterday at 11:10 in the morning Dutch time.

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Not the largest lessor by far, but not a small one either. Their portfolio consists of:

4 x A319-100, Germania, Syphax
2 x A320-200, Air Asia
1 x A330-200, Air Mauritius
2 x A340-600, Virgin Atlantic
22 x A380-800, Emirates, Singapore Airlines
1 x B777-200LR, Emirates
5 x B777-300ER, Cathay Pacific, Emirates

So 37 aircraft, of which two thirds is already A380!

http://www.doric.com/fileadmin/Doric_Asset_Finance/Downloads/doric_asset_management_brochure.pdf

It’s definately a 146 or ARJ. As for which one, your guess is as good as mine.

Volkel, Ramex Delta, 16/04/2013
Bit of a lucky shot. Some guy stood right at the fence on a step ladder wearing a light hat. This hat got in frame while the plane passed, making it seem as though the Mirage broke through the clouds. Not surprisingly the other shots where this guy blocked the view, and there where a lot, did not work out. Ladders should be banned from the first row at airshows!

Den Bosch, ANWB Traumaheli, 29/07/2013

Kecskemet, Ukrainian Air Force, 02/08/2013 (arrivals day)

GLV-V, 25/09/2013
These two photos where made at a military low-flying area for helicopters. It’s just north of Eindhoven airport (Oirschotse Heide) and is open to the public. You need to be lucky here. Sometimes there are several helicopters at once, sometimes days can pass between visits. Having foreign helicopters is extremely rare, usually only the Netherlands air force and occaisionally the Netherlands police practise here. When visiting here, please keep to the tree line for your own safety, as alongside the helicopters there are also armoured vehicles and other military heavy equipment operating here.

Let me get this straight. You went from a solar powered plane that folds down to about twice the size of a two-seater Smart car, to a practical interplanetary vessel. And all it took was 16 posts / 2 weeks.

You might want to start drinking your Vodka per bottle, instead of drinking it per crate. 😉

with a 98 m span and large lifting body mid section.

In order to fit at existing airports the plane’s wingspan should be no more then 80 metres, unless you intend to add folding / pivoting wings which will increase the weight and maintenance costs dramatically.

but only 25 kg / m2 wing loading fully laden

For that to work you either need giant wings which, again, do not fit in the 80×80 metres box airports are designed for. An alternative is a flying wing, which existing airport infrastructure is ill-equiped to handle as well (gates, airbridges).

It has 3 hp per passenger power for cruise

I do not know if that will be enough or not, might be. However, to get the thing of the ground you will need more then that.

and 1/3 of the frontal area per person compared to small DuckHawk glider.

Where do you want the 180some people to sit while still maintaining such a small frontal area?

more efficient solar panels than on the wings

Solar panels are still too heavy to be practical in aviation. In the future they might be interesting to supplement other power sources, and who knows in the far future perhaps
they will be light enough for what you have in mind. But that won’t be anytime soon. Also, no solar panels have been approved for use in commercial aviation. Just on experimental kit.

Last bit, if you want to replace zeppelins, you are running some 60 years behind. Except for some novelty and promotional zeppelins and dirrigibles they have already gone the way of the dodo.