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Published: 2015-03-02 15:08:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 2559; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 20
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This is my herd, or rather flock, of helium and hydrogen filled balloons which I've built up till now.Let's see whom among you can name the types of luftschiff which are presented here. And I do mean types and not company names... those are obvious.
Of the dozen seen here, two of them are ficticious, while the rest are real luftschiff / dirigibles, so they should be recognizable to the connoisseur of LTA craft.
And just to make things interesting, there is one among the twelve here that is little known except for perhaps those familiar with DARPA and the US Navy, so I may discount that particular ship and let you all name the other eleven, but if you manage to guess the X-craft, I guess you'd have bonus points!Now just to be clear about this... This is NOT a contenst... There are NO prizes for guessing these ships correctly, other than self satisfaction of knowing your balloons.
But I just figured you guys might find it fun guessing which bag of gas is which. On a serious note, all that you see here are the majority of the dirigible which I have modeled in sketchup spanning from 2009 to present, and I may include them all in a package deal via .ZIP here on dA later when I have time to drop my master .skp files into a zip folder this week. And incidentally this is a little something for my fellow Luft-heads over at and whom I've neglected for too long, all because I've been caught up with life, work, and my other passion which would be kinky furry arts. XDDDD So to my helium heads, please pardon my absence? I'll try not to be such a stranger from now on, if I can help it any.
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Company livery and logos are registered trademarks of their respective companies and shareholders.
The older ship designs are by now most likely public domain.
SketchUp models by moi which goes without saying were made in the wonderful application known as formerly by Google Inc, now a part of Trimble Navigation.
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I wonder if it would be dangerous to build a hanging gondola zep these days.
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Not dangerous at all really. If we think about how durable modern materials are, aluminum tubing, modern steel grades and types, and also consider what would have been considered exotic materials back in the 1990's like carbon-fibers, building a replica "Great War" or earlier model of suspended gondola Zeppelin would be rather easy and yet be much more safe.
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CARBON FIBER HANGING GONDOLA ZEPPELIN, HERE WE COME
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YES! GLORIOUS!!! The-Necromancer finds your Schwaben to be the most endearing of all.
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Danke General N. !!! 
I've neglected you guys for too long, and it was high time I stopped by the hangar to say hello, and shared stories of my travels with you all.
Und I bring gifts too...
In the form of free 3D models once I compile them into a zip folder later in the week.
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If The-Necromancer has it correctly, the "obscure" DARPA project is the tri-hull ship at the back? We seem to recall that one flopping, eventually. Just like the rest of those Oh-So-Promising airship projects of the past decade.
WHY?! WHY IS LIFE SO CRUEL TO LTA?!!! Damnit, we were promised an airship resurgence by now...
And zee gifts will likely be most useful! 
Soooooo...
All that being said, how have you been Miss Yuki? Digging the new icon, by the way.
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Dat RD icon!
Le sigh... Aeros looked so promising! 
Well regardless good sir, I wish you well with your construction of your craft no matter however long the may take.
And I'm sorry to say, but no, the DARPA ship is not tail end Charlie.
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YES! That icon continues to make The-Necromancer well over 20% cooler!
Hrm, would that nice little blimp in front of Schwaben happen to be the recently canceled MZ-3A that the USN had been flying about? That would be about Our only other guess.
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It does indeed good sir, for Rainbow Dash makes all
things 20% cooler by her simply being there.
You are close my good sir, however the supposed DARPA
craft would actually have been that larger envelope just
below it.
That strange looking balloon below the smaller one, is
the design which Westinghouse inherited from Airship
Industries when Roger Monk sold off his company.
She's the Sentinel 1000, the smaller prototype and tech
test-bed for the grandiose Sentinel 5000 which never
got past the drawing board.
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I remember watching the Fuji Film one (alas, I don't know the name... please don't harm me
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I love this kind of guessing game!
There are only a few locations where Fuji was known to frequently fly over,
and I'm trying to guess where this, and you, may have been at the time.
Hmmm I'm betting on the U. K.
than that I'm afraid. XDDDD It may have been Cardington-Bedford, or
it may have been London, I just do not know.
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Nope, I was in the United States.
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Oh okay then. herp a derp!
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It's OK
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The Hyperion! Yaaaaaay! Except as we know she WAS full of Hydrogen. Β I wonder if Captain Brieaux could have used his motors to make a generator and REALLY get her inflated again... Β Nice to see such beautiful old friends.
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I'm sure Brieaux could have done this! You may
remember that the Hyperion had electric lighting both
for her gondola and cargo deck above? Chances are
good that this lighting was direct current, or D.C.
and that would have been prefect for electro-chemical
reduction of seawater into waste chlorine, and gasses
Hydrogen and Oxygen.
The only question would have been whether the poor
Hyperion had enough fuel remaining to run her motors
long enough to electrolize a few large weather balloons
of gas to replace *meagerly* that which she lost.
Another question would be the state of her engines
after her crash. You may also remember Captain
Brieaux stating "The motors are broken anyway...
the gondola too... So let's strip the ship of everything
that weights her down. What have we then? A free
balloon!"
Bit I digress, for I too would like to imagine what the
ingenious captain could have done if his craft's engines
were in a useable state to a limited degree after the
crash, and he had distilled more buoyancy for her.
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FRIEND! I... just adore that film. Β She had to have had a generator on board, so you're quite right. Β The most likely scenario to justify the Disney Screenwriters (Not Ian Cameron, the book, though, is QUITE GOOD, just very different) is that Hyperion's ballonets had ruptured, hence the ghastly state of her envelope. Β So, more hydrogen probably wouldn't have helped... But a working electrolysis rig would have made her flight over the water a potentially much longer one. π: 0 β©: 0
At least she fell on the Godi
I hope there is at least one that... you know!;D
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Indeed there IS!
Along the front row, in the middle, you would find the classic 1980's
thru 1990's Goodyear blimp. That particular model was the GZ-20
and she flew with airplane type of foot pedals to steer with while
the pilot cranked the hand wheel in the center console to climb
and descend.
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Interesting, thank you!
... but I still wonder if they would make one that will use the pedals as classic gas/brake ones
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I love it. can you tell me what are the names of the crafts, I do see a couple that I can recognize.
thanks julia
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Hiya and sure after a day or two.
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I knowwwwww right?
And OMG I forgot about Pengie's portly emperor penguin blimp! D: *runs off to find it and add it to the collection*
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Aww they are so cute!Β Thanks for sharing, and I'd love to have the models.
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Awww thank you Lofty dear, and no sweat, I should have the zip folder ready for sharing here on dA soon.
The zipped folder will include every zeppelin and blimp seen here, as well as a few others which I couldn't have paneled into this collage due to hardware and RAM limits.
Of the additional balloons to be included with the zipped folder, most of them will be other variations to the white blimps I have nearest the bottom - front row... which would be the zero-7 and zero-8 types of Skyship-600.
All ships will be free to use, and saved in their native SketchUp .SKP format for ready use.
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