From: Patrick Salsbury (salsbury_at_sculptors.com)
Date: 04/30/00
Message-Id: <200004301017.DAA21310@bootstrap.sculptors.com> Subject: Re: Current airship project Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 03:17:36 -0700 From: Patrick Salsbury <salsbury_at_sculptors.com>
> 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 squ
> are
> sheets of polyethylene bonded together at the edges. It flies with the corner
> s
> forward, back and at either side. A cardboard square was cut in half along it
> s
> diagonal and placed in each side corner to flatten it. When inflated, the sid
> e
> 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 wingsp
> an
> 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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Sounds very interesting! A picture would better help me visualize it,
but I think I have the basic idea pretty well.
Are you sealing and inflating the whole body, or just putting gas
bladders inside of a static frame?
Pat