While listening to NPR this morning, I was thinking of the basic principle of development. Â Whether it’s new technologies, new processes, or new products, it all seems to be developed through the same principle: Â The shotgun effect. Â What is the shotgun effect? Â Well, let’s say you go hunting for …
Anyone who has followed my blog for a while knows that I have a bias toward the airship. Â I think they are fascinating in their design and potential. Â Seen as not very practical in execution, they drifted into the realms of Football Game advertisements, instead of mainstream transport vehicles. Â We …
I received a comment to my last entry on Airships (wow! Someone read my blog! ^_^), pointing out an airship currently in development: The Turtle airship. The designer has some excellent ideas, particularly making a solid hulled craft (and hence increasing it’s strength), changing the design for better aerodynamics (increasing …
Airships inspire a certain level of awe by their sheer size, and by the way they can move. They also inspire fear for those that like to point out the Hindenburg, perhaps the most infamous airship of them all. Because they are so slow and potentially flimsy, many people have …
It’s been a while since I have posted anything about the airship that I have been working on. Needless to say, there hasn’t been a lot of progress, as the national helium shortage continues. But, in the mean time, I have been working on the boiler. I got interested in …
I’m doing a weekend roundup early this week because this weekend is my wedding anniversary, and I intend to spend my time with my wife and not on the computer. ^_^ So, here are the things on my mind before the start of the weekend: Airship ProgressThe airship concept has …
This week has been rather stressful. My wife’s family has been on alert for evacuation in San Diego (though thankfully they have not needed to evacuate), my Great Aunt broke her hip and had a heart attack, and my son has been ill all week. during all this, I found …
Recently I started a new project. Many of my old projects may have gone by the wayside, but this one should stick. You see, I intend to build a steam-powered model airship, and have it be functional. I will be building this airship with parts I have around the home, …
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