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Rash of Plane Crashes: Rethinking Small Craft Travel

Anyone who has followed my blog for a while knows that I have a bias toward the airship.  I think they are fascinating in their design and potential.  Seen as not very practical in execution, they drifted into the realms of Football Game advertisements, instead of mainstream transport vehicles.  We …

Turtle Airships: Great Ideas, All Possible

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 …

Steam Airship Progress

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 …

Airship Progress: The Boiler Setup

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 …

A Steam-Powered Model Airship Project

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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