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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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"Om te kunnen vliegen moest Panamarenko materiaal kiezen dat licht en stevig was", zegt Van Oosten. "Hij had polyetheen of polypropeen kunnen gebruiken, maar die plastics zijn niet transparant en hij wilde graag een doorzichtige ballon. Daarom koos hij voor 0,35 millimeter dik pvc, dat stevig is en ook transparant." | "Om te kunnen vliegen moest Panamarenko materiaal kiezen dat licht en stevig was", zegt Van Oosten. "Hij had polyetheen of polypropeen kunnen gebruiken, maar die plastics zijn niet transparant en hij wilde graag een doorzichtige ballon. Daarom koos hij voor 0,35 millimeter dik pvc, dat stevig is en ook transparant." | ||
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- | LZ 129 Hindenburg was a German zeppelin. Along with its sister-ship LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II, it was the largest aircraft ever built. During its second year of service, it went up in flames | + | \\ |
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+ | -Unknown Air-oared airship | ||
+ | -Air-oared airship ~ 1905. Airship build by Captain Thomas C. Baldwin was flown by l. Guy Mecklem | ||
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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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- | {{white-diamond-3.jpg? | + | {{white-diamond-3.jpg? |
- | In 1995, Graham Dorrington (see links) flew a helium-filled airship (" | + | In 1995, Graham Dorrington (see links) flew a helium-filled airship (" |
- | 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" | + | source: http:// |
- | The White-Diamond: | + | |
- | Dr. Graham Dorrington, as he explores above the treetops | + | |
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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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