The Boston Globe Video Story on the Personal Blimp
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Uploaded by skyacht on Sep 11, 2007
A recent news story produced by the Boston Globe on Alberto the Skyacht Personal Blimp. Produced by Thushan Amarasiriwardena. Copyright 2007 Boston Globe/Landov - used with permission. For more information, see http://www.personalblimp.com/
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I'm not into speed.That said...what an awsome airship! I'd love to slowly cruise around enjoying the sights while in the air. Are you going to market this great flying machine? I want one.
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Love the science and experimentation but the costs are a bummer.
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Thats not a non rigid blimp, thats a semi rigid thermal airship
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I know you are planning a sleeker ship, when conditions are eventually more favorable. Are you going to sell them in various sizes as well? I would really be interested in a faster, smaller ship of a little more than half your 205,000 cubic feet, for extended one-man flights and shorter two-man flights. Also, how do batteries compare to gas for flight time?
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Questions: Why the internal support rods? What does that give you that you couldn't do with internal inflatable tubes? What would you do differently with the shape? It seems extremely round to me. Would not a more slender shape help with forward motion? What weight fabric are you using? It is like HTN-90 or Hyperlast? Thanks in advance for your answers.
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Wow I love this. great job!
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Hot air airships aren't anything new. They make many in Europe.
micfishevyt 1 year ago
@micfishevyt That's true. However all previous hot air ship have had essentially no ability to steer a low airspeeds. That's what's new about this design.
skyacht 1 year ago
So... technically it's a rigid, not a blimp?
rozniy 1 year ago
@rozniy Technically, it's a actually most accurately characterized as a quasi-rigid -- sometimes rigid, sometimes not. But no matter what we call it, pretty much everybody else calls it a blimp. We've just stopped worrying about it.
skyacht 1 year ago
How does lift compare to a helium blimp of comparable size?
rhylin26 2 years ago
A given volume of helium will lift about 3 times as much as the same volume of hot air.
skyacht 2 years ago