The pilot is a super nice guy. Builds RC blimps on his own. Talked to him a couple of years ago at an event and he was just the most helpful and friendly person ever. Took the time to go through all of the engineering solutions that go into making one of his long lasting hulls. Highly recommend anyone interested to have a chat with him if you can.
Ronan Stark it differs from model to model. He described to me how to use oracover (or any other iron-on to-plane cover), cut into six banana-Peel sections and then iron them together on a wooden rig shaped like the profile of the blimp using thin strips of the same material as connectors. It is a bit tricky and he suggested to me to buy enough material to be able to try this a couple of times. My best result so far held its pressure for about 40 minutes.
Seeing this reminds me of the Blimp they had in the arena sports center in my hometown. The local team liked dropping T-Shirts and other light team logo toy's from it into the crowds during Basketball games and such. They'd only do 1 or two short flights with it a game but it always impressed me. Don't know if it's still there I haven't been to a game since '98.
I was just setting on my deck, thinking and wondering why no one had ever build a huge Blimp out of the Balloon ! I was thinking of the motor placement, to go fourward, backward, up and down. and to hold it in place. I thought I had a great break through... I come in here and type it in youtube, to check, Wham there it is, just like I would have drawl it on paper, engine placement and all. So I'm a little late. But I'm very impressed. It wouldn't take much Battery power to maintain flight with that, and for great Photo's from the sky . One more thing, Can't you angle the engines down, to help with the landing, if you were in wind or something ! it would need it ! Great job on that Ship !
Dont angle the engines! The craft gets uncontrolable! To controll it, you can mount horizontal engines, or put a weight in the middle that you can, move foreward and backward to angle the whole ship or put servos on your engine that make them swivel between horizontal and vertical position
incredible how a few pieces of paper can determine whether it floats or sink. Must be difficult to balance it to that point. A bit of gas leakage and the balance would be lost
It is a beautiful airship! I want to make my own blimp and I would like to have your advice for the configuration of the electronic part. Do you have any email to contact you, thank you!
interesting the blimp is not neutrally buoyant or lighter then air. When the aux motors are still it sits on the ground, Difficult to hold gas in plastic bag as molecule is very small
tut der den Zeppelin auf mehr als 1,2 Bar aufpumpen? grad soviel das die Form bleibt, mehr Helium macht das Ding nur schwerer, Moleküle haben ein Gewicht, mehr Druck mehr Moleküle im selbigen Volumen..möcht das mal mit einer Enterprize sehen oder einem fetten Klingonen-Kreuzer...
Die Hülle ist ist nur soweit "aufgepumpt" das die Hülle prall ist. Wie kommen sie auf 1,2 Bar? Die Größe der Hülle ist so berechnet, dass eine bestimmte Liter Anzahl von Helium hereinpasst um einen bestimmten Auftrieb zu haben. Dem entsprechen steigt das Luftschiff ohne Akku. Mit Akku geht es runter ist aber dann noch leicht genug um mit wenig Auftrieb wieder zu steigen.
Der sinn des füllgases in einem luftschiff ist den zeppelin so leicht wie die luft zu machen, nicht leichter, sonst würde er schwer kontrolluerbar aufsteigen. Solltest du einen zeppelin zum befüllen haben, dann halt ihn in der luft und befüll ihn solange bis er schwebt, bzw lass gas raus wenn er aufsteigt :)
"You can get more lift with hydrogen than helium." You can, but not as much as many people think. The ratio of the molecular weight of helium and hydrogen is about two, so some folks think hydrogen has twice the lifting power of helium. But the lift is a function of the differences in density between the lifting gas and the density of the air around the envelope, not their ratios. Under the same conditions, air has a density of 1.293 kg/m3. This means that at sea level on a 0ºC day, hydrogen provides enough buoyancy to lift 1.2031 kg per cubic meter, while helium can only lift 1.1145 kg per cubic meter of gas. Hydrogen, then, provides about 8% more gross lift than helium does.
I never liked the real Zeppelin NT, but this model is spectacular, a masterful work. The navigation lights are very beautiful, difficult to see on those few RC models of airships. A curiosity, but how does it stay on the ground with the engines off without being tied to anything?
@@mayorgeneralramirez1997 Because with the NT the essence of the airship has been lost. The blimp, which was to be tamed by man's hand. This is a large helicopter disguised as an airship.
It has just enough buoyancy to hold its ass off the ground but not enough to float in the air like the GZ-20, hence the upward facing motors. Also, he ties it off with a wrench and fishing line for a “mast”
