From: enrique_at_perez.tc
Date: 04/29/00
From: enrique_at_perez.tc Date: 30 Apr 2000 05:45:55 -0000 Message-ID: <20000430054555.8947.qmail@www.nameplanet.com> Subject: Current airship project
Hello,
Patrick Salsbury <salsbury_at_sculptors.com> wrote:
>Are any other list members currently working on projects, or even reading
>anything along these lines?
I'm currently testing a square / diamond shaped airship. It's made of two square
sheets of polyethylene bonded together at the edges. It flies with the corners
forward, back and at either side. A cardboard square was cut in half along its
diagonal and placed in each side corner to flatten it. When inflated, the side
corners turn into airfoils with the cardboard for the flatter bottom surface and
the inflated polyethylene for the curved upper surface. There is a ring
stabilizer at the back of the ship, glued to the back corner. The airship is a
square 1.5 m on a side, since it is oriented on the diagonal, it has a wingspan
of 1.5 m * sqrt( 2 ) = 2.1 m
I am testing this in Vancouver, BC, Canada and everyone is welcome to see it. If
anyone is interested in this airship concept, I'll write up a better
description, with at least one sketch :)
Cheers,
Enrique
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