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==== Lighter Than Air ==== | ==== Lighter Than Air ==== | ||
- | **"In an airship, one does not fly, one does not drive. Instead, one travels in a most beautiful way that gives meaning to the word journey." | + | |
+ | ===== "In an airship, one does not fly, one does not drive. Instead, one travels in a most beautiful way that gives meaning to the word journey." | ||
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"The Little Japan" vehicle was developed so that its creator Kazuya Kanemaru and any volunteer could travel to towns and villages on it.\\ | "The Little Japan" vehicle was developed so that its creator Kazuya Kanemaru and any volunteer could travel to towns and villages on it.\\ | ||
- | They were searching for a place to launch the attached balloon that was shaped like Little Boy, the nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945. | + | They were searching for a place to launch the attached balloon that was shaped like Little Boy, the nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945.\\ |
+ | source: via www.we-make-money-not-art.com | ||
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NASA's Dryden Flight Research center Photo Collection. | NASA's Dryden Flight Research center Photo Collection. | ||
photo ED01-0209-3, | photo ED01-0209-3, | ||
- | The Helios Prototype wing is shown over the Pacific Ocean during its first testflight on solar-power. | + | The Helios Prototype wing is shown over the Pacific Ocean during its first testflight on solar-power.\\ |
source: www.dfrc.nasa.gov/ | source: www.dfrc.nasa.gov/ | ||
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- | In 1995, Graham Dorrington (see links) flew a helium-filled airship (" | + | {{white-diamond-3.jpg? |
- | In 2004, Dorrington flew another electric powered dirigible (with a helium capacity of 480 cubic metres and powered by a state-of-the-art rechargable lithium battery) over the Kaieteur National Park, Guyana, while filming the documentary "The White Diamond" | + | In 1995, Graham Dorrington (see links) flew a helium-filled airship (" |
- | The White-Diamond: | + | source: http:// |
- | Dr. Graham Dorrington, as he explores above the treetops | + | |
- | source http:// | + | |
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Prospective Concepts, a Swiss company developed the Flying Stingray an ultralight lifting body in the shape of a stingray but still using propellers as propulsion.\\ | Prospective Concepts, a Swiss company developed the Flying Stingray an ultralight lifting body in the shape of a stingray but still using propellers as propulsion.\\ | ||
+ | source: via www.myairship.com/ | ||
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