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Re: Making Lego airborne
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Sat, 25 Mar 2000 04:36:25 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.robotics, Jason S. Mantor writes:
> > > A balloon-based airship having propulsion and steering systems.
> > >
> > > A LEGO example is set #5956 Air Zeppelin:
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> > > http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=5956-1
> > >
> > > 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
...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 "Red
Baron" you've been out balloon-busting. ;)
> 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.
I'm pretty close to 100% sure the IJ3 ship was a rigid airship ("Zeppelin")--the
only passenger sorts were rigid, because they could be made larger than non-rigid
airships. _Hindenburg_ and _Graf Zeppelin_ (the sister that didn't burn) were both
rigid.
By the way, the word "blimp" comes from the airship types in US English: "Type
A-rigid" and "Type B-limp." As far as our definition controversy, a dirigible is
*any* self-propelled lighter-than-air craft with directional control surfaces; that
loads it in favour of rigid airships but doesn't rule out blimps. The Goodyear
Blimp, for example, is most certainly a dirigible, even though it isn't rigid.
best
Lindsay
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| (...) 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 (24 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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