huh. love this. must have read my "Harbor Reach" segment. irony is that, it was 1967 when I first conceived a fully rigid amphibious lighter-than-air AIRSHIP as gas filled larger body married to a WIG craft in order to negate the weight of the WIG; then finalized the "turtle airship" in 1980. so many years and years....wasted.
huh. love this. must have read my "Harbor Reach" segment.
irony is that, it was 1967 when I first conceived a fully rigid amphibious lighter-than-air AIRSHIP as gas filled larger body married to a WIG craft in order to negate the weight of the WIG; then finalized the "turtle airship" in 1980. so many years and years....wasted.
Another Helium Head as we used to say back in the day. I was part of NASA's study of the Modern Airship. Back in the day was early 1970's. Computer tech was limited then. I did a study of using hybrid airships in an anti sub task. I varied gas bouyancy to aerodynamic lift. The result was the task wanted an airplane. Seems Goldwater's senate aide got the bug and gave NASA the task. Fun work. Frank Piasecki got the navy to let him join 4 helicopters to a 3W blimp envelope for a heavy lift configuration. One copter failed and the ship crashed. Sad. I did get to meet many of the old airship folks. There is a book written about the hybrid airship. The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed.
huh. love this. must have read my "Harbor Reach" segment.
irony is that, it was 1967 when I first conceived a fully rigid amphibious lighter-than-air AIRSHIP as gas filled larger body married to a WIG craft in order to negate the weight of the WIG; then finalized the "turtle airship" in 1980. so many years and years....wasted.
Another Helium Head as we used to say back in the day. I was part of NASA's study of the Modern Airship. Back in the day was early 1970's. Computer tech was limited then. I did a study of using hybrid airships in an anti sub task. I varied gas bouyancy to aerodynamic lift. The result was the task wanted an airplane. Seems Goldwater's senate aide got the bug and gave NASA the task. Fun work. Frank Piasecki got the navy to let him join 4 helicopters to a 3W blimp envelope for a heavy lift configuration. One copter failed and the ship crashed. Sad. I did get to meet many of the old airship folks. There is a book written about the hybrid airship. The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed.
I have a pdf of yours floating around and know you've published two books. One of them (Helium Phoenix) is on my wish list.