MetaFilter posts tagged with blimp

What Is And What Should Never Be

gman — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:57:58 -0800

The Pentagon plans to spend $400 million to develop a giant blimp that will float 65,000 feet above the Earth for 10 years, providing unblinking and intricate radar surveillance of the vehicles, planes and even people below. I only used that first link because clicking on a 'print version' of an LA Times link reverts back to the original page.

Fin-Fish Airship

Surfin' Bird — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:45:20 -0800

Fin-Fish blimp will alter your perception of flying. Airship Regatta in Friedrichshafen, Germany.

Fly My Pretty!

RokkitNite — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:48:55 -0800

On this day in 1852, Jules Henri Giffard made the first powered and controlled flight in a steam powered airship. His 27km journey from Paris to Trappes predated the Wright Brothers' 12-second flight by over 50 years. Although their low speed and a few high profile catastrophes severely diminished the popularity of dirigibles, they remain, for many, an emblem of scientific endeavour at its romantic, adventurous best. Giffard himself began to go blind in his fifties, and committed suicide in 1882.

Your random audio links of the day.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:24:15 -0800

Today's post of tenuously related audio brings you ten historic radio broadcasts, 529 eternal questions in popular music, and one mildly amusing black metal band prank call.

Oh the huge manatee

Blazecock Pileon — Sun, 27 May 2007 12:03:40 -0800

The Goodyear Blimp: Building, filling, painting, testing. Structure. People. Signage. Flying.

It's not a balloon, it's an airship!

plinth — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:00:31 -0800

You can keep your Skycar , your jet pack, your helium guzzler. Give me a Personal Blimp, floating on hot air and pushed by electricity.

Dynafilter!

mwhybark — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:42:26 -0800

Dynalifter! In a cornfield in Ohio, a pair of IT men live the dream as their 150-foot prototype dirigible (which combines airfoil lifting surfaces with a lighter-than-air central hull) readied for a test flight to come this spring.

...we could handle a shark easily...

mwhybark — Sun, 04 Jul 2004 20:59:35 -0800

Larry's U.S. Navy Airship Picture Book. No longer available in paper, but still with us in bits. Lawrence F. Rodrigues served in the Navy, in Airship Squadron 3, out of Lakehurst NAS, beginning in 1953. This website presents photos and memories of his service days. It's fascinating.

As a bonus, you may wish to read up on the Details of Modern Airship Construction, ca. 1927, or to return to Dannysoar's site to observe the plans for a twelve-foot model helium-lofted rubber-band powered flying stick-and-tissue dirigible (scroll down a bit).

Up Ship!

didn't someone end a post with those words this year? Google didn't raise hide nor hair of it for me...