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From: Michael Whitten <mw@lenti.med.umn.edu>
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To: ZHUNT@calumet.yorku.ca
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Subject: Re: ADVICE : Learn (Blimps!)
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On Mon, 16 Oct 1995 ZHUNT@calumet.yorku.ca wrote:
> t to turn Smoothing on
> > >on the blimp. They appologized after he pointed out that blimps are
> > >SUPPOSED to look faceted.
> >
> >
> > BTW WHAT is a blimp??? (I imagine a luminous little object (or something
> >with a pint loight in it...)))
>
> A blimp is an airship or Zepplin, e.i. The Hindenburg (sp) WAS a blimp, I
> think it varies form country to country what it was called, but there're all
> basically the same: motorized ballons with a solid frame.
> Z
> (sorry about the spelling)
And the definitely-standard definition. A blimp is an oblong balloon -
one bag of gas or partitions of gas. The Goodyear or the Fujitsu are
blimps. They are non-rigid, ie, have no frame structure carrying any
weight. A dirigible is a skin-covered frame in roughly the same shape as
a blimp, but containing multiple 'cells' which contain the actual lifting
gas. The Zed-series (Zeppelins, Hindenburg) or U.S. Navy Macon-class
airships are dirigibles. Major difference.
Don't ask. I'm into airships.
Michael
PS: This should be valuable info for you LW airship modelers out there:
the craft's skin will be slightly concave around the frame girders,
since there is no outward pressure within the ship, as in blimps.
And you thought this was off-topic.
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