#dirigibles

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USS Shenandoah – Scientist of the Day

The USS Shenandoah, a U.S. Navy rigid airship or dirigible, first took to the skies on Sep. 4, 1923. It was a huge thing, 680 feet long, powered by...

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Popular Science Magazine - October 1928.

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I just saw someone get this wrong: airships have to have the envelope attached, preferably at many points, directly to the gondola. You can’t hang the whole gondola off the envelope by three masts like a sailing ship: a mast just has to not get ripped out of the deck by the force of the wind, it doesn’t have to keep the entire weight of a gondola from ripping it off.

Also a sail-propelled airship like in many fantasy settings would have the sails mostly on the side, like wings crossed with oars, instead of mostly vertically like a sea ship. Sails out on the side are much simpler for a crew to manipulate than if they have to climb up the sides of the envelope to even reach them.

(It occurs to me just now, if your airship is going to land on water, it probably needs very large outriggers, to hold it upright with the envelope on top of it. Maybe retractable ones?)

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Un rescate único

A las ocho horas de la mañana del 9 de enero de 1953 tras el protocolario saludo a la plaza el crucero “USS Columbus” (CA-74) cruzaba la bocana del puerto de Barcelona. El crucero pesado tan solo fue uno de los nueve buques de guerra que componían esta escuadra norteamericana de la Sexta Flota, cuyo buque insignia era el mismo crucero “USS Columbus” y el mando recaía sobre el vicealmirante John…

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Fond Memories of my Flying Days (thanks to Asimov's & Analog!)

I hare some cool factoids for the hard-SF aficionados out there, plus photographs of me learning to fly a glider, as I discuss my latest Asimov's story.

My author interview is out, published in the Astounding Analog Companion. There, I discuss the premises of my new story, Maragi’s Secret, a novella set in a distant future where humanity has taken to the…. sky. The full story is available in the current May-June 2024 issue of Asimov’s. There’s some cool factoids for the hard-SF aficionados out there, plus photographs of me learning to fly a…

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Wed. July 5, 2023: Lots of Words, Both Spoken and Typed

image courtesy of Jill Wellington via pixabay.com Wednesday, July 5, 2023 Waning Moon Pluto, Saturn, Neptune Retrograde Foggy, humid, hot We’re supposed to have a humid heat wave the rest of this week. Ick. Ready for a long catch-up? Curl up with a favorite beverage and we’ll get to it. Yesterday’s serial episode was from Legerdemain: Episode 99: Why He Followed Her Shelley doesn’t…

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I will bring back durgiblea

Durgibles

dirigibles

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Never travel in an airship without a cat: The Strange Story of the Airship America

A weird airship voyage and some delightful cat superstitions.

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They never listen

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01-01-25 | 1920s Prohibition deco masterpiece. misterlemonztenth.tumblr.com/archive

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It's Bitching about Heaven hours

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Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk Airship Fighter seen with the USS Macon mothership - 1932.

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"Le Jaune" Airship

The airship, Le Jaune, built by France’s Lebaudy brothers, glided past the Eiffel Tower in Paris at 11:15 a.m. on November 20, 1903.

The name Le Jaune (“The Yellow”) came from a coat of yellow lead chromate that was used to seal the airship envelope.

They constructed an airship hangar at Moisson, near the River Seine downstream from Paris and were instrumental in the development of airships, and a series of semi-rigid airships in the early years of the twentieth century.