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Rather than these noisy jet-powered stunt planes shattering the peace, introduce airshow crowds to the underappreciated art of lighter than air flight.
"Feel your adrenalin surge as the airships roll slowly in perfect sych. Thrill as the pilots hover in a tricky cross-wind. Gasp at their death-defying
close formations..."
The shows could be set to classical music for added cultural value.
Another Daring Display Team
http://www.722sqnatc.org.uk/barrows/
The Red Barrows need to be seen to be believed. [Aristotle, Aug 16 2000, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Production due to start on Airships
http://www.ananova....tory/sm_273622.html
Get those acrobatics ready! [Aristotle, Aug 16 2000, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Bill Beaty's Science Stuff
http://www.amasci.c...rg/ideas.html#blimp
Or build the dueling blimps like this... [StarChaser, Mar 21 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
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Can airships fly upside down? |
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It depends. Traditional blimps or
zeppelins have a gondola on the
bottom, which (because it's
heavier than the rest of the
craft) will always stay on the bottom. |
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There's no reason a specially
designed airship couldn't rotate
any which way it wants, however. |
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I was thinking "synchronized water ballet," but whales'll do.
Perhaps airship demolition derby . . . |
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Would be wonderfully amusing, but not very destructive...<grin> Picture 200 foot airships going 'Bwoing!' every couple of minutes... |
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They'd have to cage the propellers or they'd be going 'Bwoing! Rip!'
Maybe Boeing could sponsor the spectacles: The Boeing Bwoings |
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Great idea, seeing them move slowly but gracefully makes it look more magical. Yes not very destructive but much more dramatic. |
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Blimps don't always move slowly or gracefully. I've seen one flying so erratically, it was porpoiseing. No, I was not at a Pink Floyd concert at the time. |
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I`m afraid that idea isn`t so hot. Hot air blimps need fuel which pollutes the atmosphere. You should put your efforts more toward a wind up blimp motor which doesn`t take the energy and expense of fuel to operate. |
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A wind-up blimp motor? There are two ways to make that work: |
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1. wind it up by hand with a bunch of reduction gears - should take a few years to wind it up for a typical flight |
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2. wind it up by power - requires fuel |
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not a good idea... solar power might work, but that's expensive |
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[jimbo6]: Blimps don't use hot air. Hot air balloons use hot air. |
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Oh good, another excuse to link to Bill Beaty's site... |
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Build them like the link shows, with electric motors inside, no propellors. |
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Dust off that old copy of Strauss's "Blue Danube" waltz... |
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You could spice up the show by attaching light displays to the blimps, or if you really wanted to go all-out, the show could end with a cathartic display of all the participating blimps going out Hindenburg-style. There would be a few safety issues to consider, however. |
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Of course, for safety issues one would have to introduce the full-body BlimpBelt (tm), so as to avoid people falling on the ceiling as the blimp slooooooowly overturns.......or maybe that could just be part of the fun? <grin> |
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That also raises another question; would the blimp take so long to overturn that the passengers would experience redout from excess blood in the brain, or does that only happen when blood is forced into the brain quickly? |
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This is, of course, assuming we DO have passengers. |
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Great idea, Acrobadirigibles. [Acrobadigibles is better?, ok
Acrodigibles!] |
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If these show performers do come into reality it will be
most likely if they also have other useful functions and
are only modified for acrobatics. On the fuel consumption
pollution issue, anything we humans do that consumes /
pollutes will of course have a longer life if pollution &
renewable friendly. Any particular machine will likely be
able to use most parts of the evolutionary tech spectrum.
On LTA thought, buoyancy does reduce fuel consumption
a lot but mostly in low speeds and hover while using more
for higher speeds fighting wind forces. The acrobatics
would open up a whole new choreography potential not
very possible with dynamic lift means. |
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