2018 - New envelope and gondola for RC Airship LED. Incorporating all the experience from testing over the last 2 years. Test of lightweight ballonet system to enhance performance in variable conditions.
Beautiful build. Complete with balonets! Impressive. Flies nice. Nice piece of engineering. Cheers from New Jersey, USA ( power/ lift / weight ratios?)
It's going to be much easier to write scripts for Pixhawks soon to control things just like ballonets, are you sensing over pressure at all? Expect scripting in the next six months, sooner rather than later.
@@tedf1471 Probably not for party balloons, I was thinking for full sized airships. You know Helium is expensive so it would be nice to have an envelope that could hold helium for many years.
Dear Martin . Your project is so exciting . I am making my own Blimp , but I got some problems with envelope. I see you have a very professional Blimp . Can you show me how you can connect the order sides of the envelop ? Thanks you !
martin, great build and thanks for sharing. is the ballonet merely for keeping the hull nicely inflated over time as helium is escaping or is it to let ballonet air out when going higher up and fill it up again when coming down? can you have overpressure in the whole system both for the hull and the ballonet and this way create more weight based on compressed air acting as ballast? it would be great if you could explain what function the ballonet serves and what it does not do.
Can i ask how you move this forward and backward and elevate using the ballonets and do you use any propellers? I might be blind looking at thix vid xD Good Job though
I have mounted various cameras on the airship and some with gyro stabilisation/ FC OSD etc . Look at my other RC Airship LED videos on YT.😎 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KMZtJpttNqs.html
What kind of material do you use for the envelope? Is it heat seal-able or did you just do a very very careful job of taping regular mylar sheets together?
