~~~~~~~~~ Airship ge/n/eral ~~~~~~~~~
Important links:
http://airshipcenter.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airship
Thread video's
Pedal Powered BlimpBike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CAvM13B3bg
Top 10 Largest Airships
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD90GU6e4-Q
Observation balloons, balloon busters, Guys jumping out of blimps with parachutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvpFUiOq-rE
~~~~~~ Airship Ge/n/eral ~~~~~
>>930674
>>930728
haha butts
>>930728
That´s a big ship, but they haven´t attached the cabin yet.
http://lockheedmartin.com/us/products/HybridAirship.html
>And now, ther's something completely different; A man with three buttocks!
But seriously, does it make any sense?
>>932048
>But seriously, does it make any sense?
Nope, none of it does.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/helium-hokum-why-airships-will-never-be-part-of-our-transportation-infrastructure/
ahem...
>>932126
classic
So when will hydrogen become a thing again with airships?
Seriously, the gas bags back then were made of pig bladders.
You could make gasbags out of something thousands of times stronger these days like kevlar or carbon fiber.
>>932191
While the use of cargo airships is debatable (personally I think they would do pretty well delivering cargo to more rugged terrain far from any paved road), cruise airships would be another possible use.
It would be an interesting prospect to have overland cruise flights, although it wouldn't exactly be the most practical thing in the world.
Honestly though, I don't think commercial airships (barring cruises) will ever be successful with present-day technology. If we ever actually want to make it happen, we would need Matrix-like levitation or something along those lines. And at that point. And why not just make large-scale VTOL craft if thats the case?
I will say though, as a counter-example, nobody was really proposing a system like the Hyperloop before 2013 and few thought it would work when it was announced. Now we have 26 university teams designing hyperloop pods and a whole test track being designed.
>>932229
>I will say though, as a counter-example, nobody was really proposing a system like the Hyperloop before 2013 and few thought it would work when it was announced. Now we have 26 university teams designing hyperloop pods and a whole test track being designed.
actually the idea and first concepts of vacuum trains came up about a century ago.
>>932236
Vaccum trains are a little different from what the hyperloop is though, as vaccum trains typically are proposed to go under oceans and reach other continents in like an hour or less. Hyperloops are more localized and are designed to be more competitive towards mid-range airline flights (the distance from Las Vegas to Los Angeles being an example).
And most of the proposals in that regard revolve around High-Speed Trains and in more ambitious proposals Maglev Trains.
>>932236
Actually the original idea came from Jules Verne in a novel written 1863. But it took some decades to get technology ready and to build working prototypes.
>>932257
>Actually the original idea came from Jules Verne in a novel written 1863.
The Victorians had already built actual functioning "pneumatic trains" in prior to that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Pneumatic_Despatch_Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Palace_pneumatic_railway
It wasn't a new idea when Jules Verne wrote about it.
>>932284
>>932183
>Seriously, the gas bags back then were made of pig bladders.
No, they were Goldbeater’s skin or later a synthetic material.
>>932284
I can't recall any concept he would have come totally on his own, most of his writing was highly reactionary and extrapolatory on popular science topics of the time.
Well maybe Hector Servadac ("Off on a Comet" for you filthy Englishmen), that was one weird book.
>>932126
>>932066
SA,,, they sold the soulongago., Spooky rag for GE.
,,,whatif? WHAT IF?? we upgrade?,, vacum lift,,, solar power,, Corinthian leather?,
,, and start, badmouthing jets,,dangerous, radiations,, no chance of parachute,, no scenic,,, timelag,, no piano.
pic> "CAT4" airacer., parachutes on line feed past "Catdrive,, water spray bottles for super pullng power(catshate water!),, mouse fuel,,
,and, likea huming bird and bumbulbee,, ive discovered the secret "Foof-unction!, blured in this pic, for military resons,, not actualy horse snot.
this thing,,, FLEW!!, go back, watchit Again!,
, hes ,In ,the ,AIR! for 2 strokes!!! ,HOTDAM!
,,, a little more power,,, a little liter materials, a thin pilot and better weather.,,
,, steal old ideas, becool,,, ordie.
, Wheres, FLAPPYBOY??
>>934813
how fast, doesit need to flap?,, the idea is sound.
, micro pores, and vibrating wing.
,
,,crash 1 Zepplin,,, none forget., "ooOOOOo,The Humanity?",, SHUTUP! ITS> DAMN YOU TUREROUSTS!, bomb Mexico!
,, build bigger zepplins,, to show VIctory!
>>934813
>>934807
>>937171
Am I too much of a normie to understand these memes?
>>938732
BaconRider Abides
>>938732
None of us really understand BaconRider, but we love him all the same.
remember Dinotopia?
>>938735
>jpg
You goofed. We can never have that moment back
>>938745
Yes, loved it...for some reason not many people know about it
Science fiction becoming science fact
What a time to be alive.
>>932066
How much energy a 40-know ship would use compare to a hybrid airship with same payload?
>>940733
That information is contained in the above linked article.
>>941067
*know=nodes
Regular ships can't reach 40 nodes afaik...
>>930674
There was an article and possibly a video a few years back of an artist that strapped him self to the underside of a helium blimp calibrated to hold them aloft. Then he used large wings attached to their arms to propel him selves around the atrium of a mall. It was said that it was the closest thing to flying like Superman.
I've been searching for the article, but I never found it again.
I have found some similar setups, mostly using a harness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCGmlFrAZ0I
>>930939
For you
https://youtu.be/x1q4Eql81sQ
Solar balloon made from trash bags and inflated with an office fan, reaching 150 metres (about 450 feet in freedom units) in 10 degrees c
Pretty fucking cool.
>>932048
>But seriously, does it make any sense?
Yes, this design improves the dynamic flight capabilities of a given volume.
>>944740
Pretty sure it was for the vent.
He was tethered to the ground the whole time, anyway, not that that would help him if it ripped.
bimp
>>930674
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbAhn7iKLPc
>>947825
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. What a masterpiece.
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=37858
>>947888
Guess my trips confirm. Too bad they weren't 666.
And just like that I'm binging on Iron Maiden.
>>947893
You're welcome. Just bought the vinyl single for Empire of the Clouds also.
>>947893
Also, since the Airlander is also in this thread, Bruce Dickinson is helping with that project.
>>947896
>vinyl
>>>/mu/ you hipster faggot
Na, I have a feeling you've had that turntable for a long time.
I never realized how good the lyrics and story telling are until tonight to be honest
Just thought it was catchy when I heard it on the radio, you know? I'm terrible with lyrics until I read them. Then I read run to the hills, never realized what it was about until now. Powerful stuff.
tl;dr
I have a whole new appreciation for iron maiden.
From a blimp thread no less.
>>947902
It's going to be the only piece of vinyl that I (personally) own, as it was only available for Record Store Day last week. Hopefully I'll get my dad's turntable working again so I can play it, along with all of his old vinyls (he wants to listen to it too). He's had that turntable for ages, probably since I was a baby.
Either way it is an amazing track and it's pretty funny that you now appreciate it because of this thread.
>>947904
If you're having trouble fixing it start a thread on /diy/
Link here if you do and I'll check it out.
And yeah, pretty funny how that worked out. Going to re listen to them tomorrow when I can use my stereo. I'd piss off a few people if I were to do that now lol
Here is the airship the song is about if anyone is interested.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R101
best blimp movie ever
>>947918
yeah, so comfy to watch
fucking helium shortage reeeeeeeeeeeee
>>948042
You can watch it online for free in hd, but I won´t post link before I get banned. It´s a comfy film.
For more realism this one is great too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4jq7oRxw-g
>>947969
Don't worry anon, when fusion sorts itself out we'll have plenty of helium to use.
>>948114
[DESIRE FOR BLIMP-LAUNCHED GLIDERS INTENSIFIES]
I never knew I needed this until now. Probably cheaper than anything but foot-starting, climb as high as you want before detaching, only needing a runway for landing, and barely at that...
>>948333
Hope so. If helium gets cheap airships will be revived. Right now its expensive and uncertain
>>948376
Right now I think it's more important to use in our MRI machines and laboratory research.
I think it's a waste even selling it to the public in a shitty disposable get well balloon.
>>948378
That was pretty damn causal considering the circumstances.
>>948386
>BBC watermark
Any idea what documentary this is?
>>948376
>If helium gets cheap
It won't. Helium is escaping from our atmosphere and is rapidly depleting from frivolous use.
>>948518
There are sustainable sources of helium. What is a finite resource is deposits of cheap helium.
>>948378
this motherfucker…
>>948540
>sustainable sources of a gas that can't be synthesized with anything less hardcore than uranium
????
>>948540
I'm surprised helium even manages to exist here.
What do you mean by sustainable? I don't understand.
>>948518
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4jq7oRxw-g
Airships Arabia to buy 2 Hybrid Airships, with Qatar being one of the worlds largest helium suppliers.
http://www.airshipcenter.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=226
>>948649
Helium is in the same place where natural gas is, inside the earth, where it was created through millions of years of radioactive decay and stored there.
The only way to artificially produce helium is with nuclear fusion, but the amounts you produce are small and you would need a lot of fusion reactors, and +20 years before that comes reality.
>>948715
Thank you
Blimps!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSGjYNBlOmA
>>948767
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayHE2XQOsck
>>948768
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRtE9IStlAk
>>948770
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTdJY9X0hOo
This design is approved by Goodyear engineers and deem it theoretically possible.
>>948964
What are its specs/performance goals etc
Details anon, details!
>>948767
https://youtu.be/jlzQq3nOj5c
>>949199
That aint no blimp! That's a hot air blallalalaon!
