"Waterwing" in air

[AClarke2007]

Ever thought of using Static/ Ion drives; basically high voltage lines strobed over the wings surfaces?

[kiwininja100]

weather ballon

[TheRantingCabbie]

I'd be too tempted to put blinking lights all the way around the outside of it. Then, wait for a million uploads on Youtube about UFO's in that area.

[bramslaets]

ufo



[foamulator]

Basically, this is a dirigible.

[SternenEngel1]

haha cute

[WCRXcharleston]

Buckminster Fuller point out that one could move a mountain with an enclosed sphere, of the right size, it would enclose enough of the atmosphere, if light enough, would take on a negative pressure inside and gain lift.

[WCRXcharleston]

No engine is powering it. The objects that are shaped this way, with this balance of weight, and shape, when in a windy day, or in a non windy day, will flow very stably. The example was given in "The Deltoid Pumkin Seed" by John McPhee is "that a sphere when released in an atmosphere, will rise directly up, and a board of wood, when released underwater, will float up, and slide to the side at a rate that balances with the shape and the medium/object density ratio.

Get designing!

[killacam44]

the "Waterwing" in air what kind of motor is powering it?

[danielgeery]

The Unleaded Zeppelin runs on buoyancy.

[xmod85]

very nice

[kryz24v]

awsome! :)

[toadmaster4]

Lol, its cute

[senilking]

stars

[Bobster986]

What's that white dot in the sky at the end of the first two shots?

[seamanspencer]

the moon :)

[69NOMAN69]

i c a ufo

[roidroid]

i'm very interested in what you're going to do next with this. Will you use an inflated full Delta Wing perhaps, instead of the "tacked on" wings?

And are you still keen to go ahead with your density/buoyancy control? Glide up... Glide down... Glide up... Glide down... It would be so awesome!

[Rystenthelion]

ah, ^^ maybe install some kind of radio control system that either forces the blimp back down after gaining altitude by changing the pitch of the wings, or using a prop system.

[roidroid]

changing the pitch of the wings will make it just fly backwards instead, it won't make it come down. Better to change it's buoyancy, perhaps by pumping air on-board as "ballast"

[danielgeery]

In this case, with a fishing string! The idea of the original concept was that the airship could change density, via different air temperatures, solar reflectivity, venting hydrogen, capturing moisture, or compression--or some other means I'm not yet aware of.

These complications caused me to go the the tubular design.

[Rystenthelion]

how do you get the airship back down though if it continues to fly upwards?