Myke Amend ([info]mykeamend) wrote,
@ 2008-08-23 03:33:00
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What do Nikola Tesla, Captain Nemo, Dr. Julius No, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, and Madame Marie Curie have in common? Why, they are all on this list, wherein Daniel H. Wilson and Anna C. Long travel back in time (and into fiction) to psychoanalyze and rate their All-time Top 5 Mad Scientists, at Popular Mechanics Magazine. (found via Brassgoggles.co.uk)



Also at popular Mechanics:

Are Backyard Hot-Air Blimps the Future of Low-and-Slow Aviation?



"Two rival New England inventors have been launching a new breed of airship over New England's Connecticut River Valley. But will recreational hot-air blimps go mainstream, or are they just a pleasant diversion for a summer morning?" ... [more here]

4 New 'Blimp' Designs Bring Return of the Airship

 

"We already took you inside our floating future with hybrid airships. Can new tech put them on the fast track?"... [more at Popular Mechanics]

Just Don't Call it a Blimp

 
Photograph by Phillip Toledano


"It's a hybrid airship--part plane, part dirigible. Two Ohio inventors think production versions up to 990 feet long will launch a new era of aviation--one where low and slow is the way to go..." [more at Popular Mechanics]

Airship images are copyright © Popular Mechanics and/or by the phototographers listed. Madame Curie and Nikola Tesla images are public domain, and found at Wikipedia.org.

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[info]glasshat
2008-08-23 03:42 pm UTC (link)
I heard one of the inventors of this new airship. There was a Coast To Coast show and he spent the whole time talking about their new airship designs. They should be great. They don't intend to use them to transport passengers though, at least not at first. They have plans to use them to move freight, sort of like airborn trucks or trains. Passenger transports would come a little later.

I can remember when the Ohio skies were full of airships. The Goodyear blimps would fly over quite regularly. You could always hear them coming because you could hear their engines. They would usually fly over at night and they were all decked out with white lights. From a distance, they looked like strange UFOs. The had a base in Akron.

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