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Re: Making Lego airborne
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Sat, 25 Mar 2000 01:39:42 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Jason S. Mantor writes:
> > A balloon-based airship having propulsion and steering systems.
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> > A LEGO example is set #5956 Air Zeppelin:
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> > http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=5956-1
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> > Non-LEGO examples are the Hindenburg, the Good Year Blimp, and the airship
> > that Drs. Henry & Indiana Jones escaped from via biplane in the third movie.
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> Nope ! Close though : ) Dirigibles are airships with rigid frames.
> Zeppelins are dirigibles but Blimps are not rigid and are merely ballons
> with gondolas hanging off them
Wow, dang! Thanks for the correction! So, what then was the airship in the
3rd IJ movie? I don't have it on viddy and unfortunately it hasn't been
burned into my brain yet like the 1st IJ movie.
--Todd
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| (...) ...and engines and directional control surfaces. That's a dirigible; see below. :) Otherwise it's a barrage balloon of the variety used near the front in WWI--no power, but a gondola for observers and a machine gun or two. If you've played (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Just saw this last week on the USA channel. It was definitely a zeppelin--Drs Jones escaped by running along a catwalk inside the airship, to one of the airplanes which was hanging off the airship (what were those, escape planes?). The (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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