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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.\\ | |
| 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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| -Unknown Air-oared airship and aeronaut at unknown location (baseball park) circa 1905\\ | 1. Unknown Air-oared airship and aeronaut at unknown location (baseball park) circa 1905\\ |
| -Air-oared airship ~ 1905. Airship build by Captain Thomas C. Baldwin was flown by l. Guy Mecklem for balwin at Washington Gardens (commonly known as Chutes Park)Los Angelas. Propelled by two air-oares operated by the pilot who "rowed" the airshio throught the air. Note inflatation valve at the aft end of the airbag.\\ | 2. Air-oared airship ~ 1905. Airship build by Captain Thomas C. Baldwin was flown by l. Guy Mecklem for balwin at Washington Gardens (commonly known as Chutes Park)Los Angelas. Propelled by two air-oares operated by the pilot who "rowed" the airshio throught the air. Note inflatation valve at the aft end of the airbag.\\ |
| source: http://www.earlyaviator.com/ note; at this site one can find a most wonderfull early airships and captive balloon collection. | source: http://www.earlyaviator.com/ note; at this site one can find a most wonderfull early airships and captive balloon collection. |
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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.\\ |
| | 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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| -Silver Inflatable,Photographer:Phillipe Glade, Burningman 2001\\ | {{:1910_ville_de_lucerne_transaerien.jpg?452}}{{:1906villedeparisastraairship1jpl.jpg?310}}{{:1908_ville_d_bordeaux_1909_nancy.jpg?300}}\\ |
| | 1.Compagnie generale Transaerienne 9 (Paris) - ASTRA airship Ville-de -Lucerne (Transaerienne II). The airship served a commercial sightseeing tours. Its enveloppe is 4500m3 and 60 m long to alow operating at the high Swiss elevations.\\ |
| | 2. The first version of the ASTRA- dirigeable Ville de Paris - 1906 in its Aerostation - courtesy Jean-Pierre Lauwers\\ |
| | 3. The war dirigable Ville-de-Bordeuax. First shown to the public (as future military airship) during the 1908 Exposition de l'Aviation at the Grand Palais in Paris. - courtesy Jean Pierre Lauwers\\ |
| | source: http://www.earlyaviator.com/ |
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| | Silver Inflatable,Photographer:Phillipe Glade, Burningman 2001\\ |
| source: http://topweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html\\ | source: http://topweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html\\ |
| -Joel Tauber, Searching for the Impossible: The Flying Project 2003\\ | |
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| | 1.COPYWRIGHT_FOTOT_PAOLO_OGGIONI_FEst:The Upside-Down balloon from Festo appears at first glance to be standing on its head. In actual fact, there is a concealed cabin on the underside and a further dummy cabin on the top. The engineers of the manufacturing company Cameron Balloons worked with great enthusiasm to produce this "special shape" balloon, which is unique throughout the world.\\ |
| | 2.Joel Tauber, Searching for the Impossible: The Flying Project 2003\\ |
| source: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.artnet.de | source: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.artnet.de |
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| COPYWRIGHT_FOTOT_PAOLO_OGGIONI_FEst:The Upside-Down balloon from Festo appears at first glance to be standing on its head. In actual fact, there is a concealed cabin on the underside and a further dummy cabin on the top. The engineers of the manufacturing company Cameron Balloons worked with great enthusiasm to produce this "special shape" balloon, which is unique throughout the world.\\ | |
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| In 1995, Graham Dorrington (see links) flew a helium-filled airship ("Dirigible-4" with a helium capacity of 380 cubic metres) over Borneo's tropical rain forest. The dirigible was especially designed to have low noise to minimize wildlife disturbance and hence was powered by electric motors rather than using a noisy internal combustion engine. It was flown successfully thirty times and used usefully to collect pollinating insects as well as to count orang-utan nests in a forest area of about one square kilometer (see picture gallery). These pioneering efforts proved that controlled movement close to the forest canopy is in fact viable. On its penultimate flight the dirigible was soft-landed atop a flowering Merbau tree and rested there for twenty minutes, further demonstrating the effectiveness of similar platforms for canopy research. 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" by Werner Herzog, 2004. Herzog filmed aswell the Nasa balloon project above in his documentary; Encounters at the end of the World, 2007.\\ | {{:gallery-prints-light_stuff-130_ls_.jpg.jpg?780}}\\ |
| | In 1995, Graham Dorrington flew a helium-filled airship "Dirigible-4" over Borneo's tropical rain forest. The dirigible was especially designed to have low noise to minimize wildlife disturbance and hence was powered by electric motors rather than using a noisy internal combustion engine. It was flown successfully thirty times and used usefully to collect pollinating insects as well as to count orang-utan nests in a forest area of about one square kilometer. These pioneering efforts proved that controlled movement close to the forest canopy is in fact viable. On its penultimate flight the dirigible was soft-landed atop a flowering Merbau tree and rested there for twenty minutes, further demonstrating the effectiveness of similar platforms for canopy research.\\ |
| | 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" by Werner Herzog, 2004. Herzog filmed aswell the Nasa balloon project above in his documentary; Encounters at the end of the World, 2007.\\ |
| source: http://www.dendronautics.org/page4.htm http://www.thewhitediamond.de/fotosdreh.htm | source: http://www.dendronautics.org/page4.htm http://www.thewhitediamond.de/fotosdreh.htm |
| | pictures: http://lenaherzog.com/gallery.asp?action=vie |
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