Thursday, April 22, 2010

Airships




[Santos-Dumont rounding the Eiffel Tower while in the process of winning the Deutsch prize on October 19, 1901. Taken from the archives of the Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airship

3 comments:

Charles said...

The Santos-Dumont airship dipicted (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dLSVgS5AxBI/S8ifNyxMnwI/AAAAAAAAqao/kjKUVy5hBfE/s400/Sd_num6_rounding_tower.jpg) is not his No 6, in which he won the prize. Rather, it is of No 5 - a previous similar airship, which he also flew around the Eiffel tower. See http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/my-first-balloon-ascent.html
Hats off to the people who got it right. Note the small differences in envelope form and rudder shape!
Cheers, Charles

Charles said...

The Santos-Dumont airship dipicted (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dLSVgS5AxBI/S8ifNyxMnwI/AAAAAAAAqao/kjKUVy5hBfE/s400/Sd_num6_rounding_tower.jpg) is not his No 6, in which he won the prize. Rather, it is of No 5 - a previous similar airship, which he also flew around the Eiffel tower. See http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/my-first-balloon-ascent.html
Hats off to the people who got it right. Note the small differences in envelope form and rudder shape!
Cheers, Charles

Hermes said...

Thank you very much for that.