Aeronef. Battle Stations! Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » Vacuum Ships of the Air. Posted by Shannon Love on June 3rd, 2008 (All posts by Shannon Love) A Vacuum Airship I love this stuff.
Lighter-than-air craft such as blimps and zeppelins float by reducing their total mass below that of the mass of the air they displace. Conventionally, filling a lightweight container with hot air or the low density gasses hydrogen or helium lowers the mass enough to raise the entire vessel. However, the theoretical best means of reducing mass would be to use a vacuum contained in a very lightweight container.
This site is in russian but it does look like somebody put some thought into what such a vessel would actually look like. IIRC, the actual efficiency you could get over helium would be only about 18% so no one is likely to build one for any reason other than to say that they did so. But hell, I would kill to be able to say that I did. Dystopian Wars Home. Imagine a world similar to our own, but subtly different.
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Covenant of Antarctica vs. Fanciful zeppelins and trains. German Zepline. Back Primary ID : 8866Title : German ZeplineDescription : Alternate History German ZeplineDesigner : Burca EduardDate Created : 2011-01-12 09:56:12Time Period : Non-HistoricalSub Catagory : Science Fiction & Alternative HistoryYou may also like.
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My official vacation starts Thursday, but I want to spend what free time I have this week working heavily on my various writing projects. Hence, you get a look back, on schedule, of my various posts on Steampunk, Writing, and etc. This post originally appeared on November 2, 2009. Airships such as zeppelins, hot-air balloons, dirigibles, and blimps, which are collectively known as lighter-than-air aircraft, operate based on the principle of buoyancy. The principles of buoyancy were first described by Archimedes (the genius Greek as I call him), and are also the reason why ships float and submersibles sink. Now, the three above types of airships are also called rigid (zeppelin), semi-rigid, and nonrigid (blimp). The Montgolfiere balloon, 1783.
Retro-Futuristic Airship - the Vindoclavian. In Progress – an airship of the retro future Here’s a test rendering of the 3D model I’ve been working on – it’s the Airship Vindoclavian, a lighter than air dirigible that incorporates some steering propellers from an old Modern Mechanix & Inventions cover and an exoskeletal frame that’s unlike any that were ever used in zeppelins (German zeppelins used internal, four-spoked frames, while the US Navy’s dirigibles used a similar, but three-spoked frame that the German engineers disapproved of*).
That frame and another aspect of the design are really intended just to make the nature of the ship more apparent… so I have to figure out what crazy notions led to those changes. Because I’m not a rocket scientist, of course – just a rocket artist. USAESAethershipMod.png (1087×660) PirateAethershipMod.png (1084×660) Webomator - Applying Modern & Streamlined Processes of Webomation to the Internet Since 1997.
Zeppelin - WoWWiki Ελληνικός οδηγός. For toy zeppelins, see Zippelin.
A goblin zeppelin is a form of transportation that consists of a wooden gondola attached to a large balloon, into which hot air is pumped by a phlogiston boiler. They are swift, able to make long journeys, and pass above rough terrain.WoWRPG 215 They were conceived by the goblins.W2Man 75 The pilot of the zeppelin can control the direction through use of ropes which are connected to both the steering wheel in the gondola, as well as fins on the balloon's back. Altitude is maintained or adjusted by the degree of inflation of the balloon, as well as with ballast.
Moving in a direction or changing speed requires thrust, given by one or more rotors. The zeppelin is an example of one of the most stable technological devices to be found on Azeroth (a trait uncommon of goblin inventions), and malfunctions tend to be non-threatening. History Edit They were first constructed and used by the Horde during the Second War. Zeppelin routes Other zeppelins Gallery See also.