tkdguy Posted July 3, 2010 Report Share Posted July 3, 2010 Re: Zeppelins Some photos from the Moffett Field Museum: [ATTACH]36437[/ATTACH][ATTACH]36438[/ATTACH][ATTACH]36439[/ATTACH][ATTACH]36440[/ATTACH][ATTACH]36441[/ATTACH] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 3, 2010 Report Share Posted July 3, 2010 Re: Zeppelins And more: [ATTACH]36442[/ATTACH][ATTACH]36443[/ATTACH][ATTACH]36444[/ATTACH][ATTACH]36445[/ATTACH] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 3, 2010 Report Share Posted July 3, 2010 Re: Zeppelins Last set: Macon and friends [ATTACH]36446[/ATTACH][ATTACH]36447[/ATTACH][ATTACH]36448[/ATTACH] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 3, 2010 Report Share Posted July 3, 2010 Re: Zeppelins Doesn't that story come out every ten years? Then they should stop wasting time and get on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Mackinder Posted July 3, 2010 Report Share Posted July 3, 2010 Re: Zeppelins It turns out Nazi gorillas are camera shy. ... And can turn invisible at will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 3, 2010 Report Share Posted July 3, 2010 Re: Zeppelins ... And can turn invisible at will. That's why none of my pics of them came out right! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markdoc Posted July 5, 2010 Report Share Posted July 5, 2010 Re: Zeppelins The Zeppelin took off around 10:25 and rose to an altitude of about 1000 feet. We flew over Stanford University and the Linear Accelerator. The winds were pretty high' date=' which made the flight a bit bumpy. So some of my pictures didn't come out well. Unfortunately, those include the accelerator and the campus tower. But I was able to take other photos of the campus and the area. One of them was taken from the bathroom that has great view.[/quote'] Hey, I can see my house from here! Well, kinda - in photo number 2, I can see what looks like Lozano's brushless carwash and the roof of the apartment building I lived in for my first 6 months in the Bay area! cheers, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 5, 2010 Report Share Posted July 5, 2010 Re: Zeppelins Cool! And as selfish as this sounds, I'd like to go up again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escafarc Posted July 12, 2010 Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 Re: Zeppelins Navy blimp to be used to spot oil in the Gulf: http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/33289/20100707/oil-spotting-blimp-to-arrive-in-gulf-coast-wednesday.htm Vidieo here: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/navy-blimp-patrols-gulf-waters-sky-view-oil-spill-coast-areal-official-bp-11129847 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted July 12, 2010 Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 Re: Zeppelins Last set: Macon and friends [ATTACH]36446[/ATTACH][ATTACH]36447[/ATTACH][ATTACH]36448[/ATTACH] Ah..Moffett Field. I was stationed there for a while in the Patrol. I had a get together with some of my old Navy buddies in San Fransico back a few years ago. We wanted to go into Hanger 3 (the old wooden airship hanger) that the Squadron used when we were there, but they had it closed off as unsafe. The Museum was still there, but the old static display P-3 was in rough shape. But even though it is now a Federal Airfield it brought back some memories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 25, 2010 Report Share Posted July 25, 2010 Re: Zeppelins I can't say that this was my best work, but here are a couple of Zeppelin models I built and painted. The first one is more or less painted the way you might see the Zeppelin in Friedrichshafen decorated. I decided to give the second a more Steampunk look. The engines on the Steampunk Zeppelin are bent because they broke off, and I did a lousy job retattaching them. Still, that adds a little character to the model. [ATTACH]36603[/ATTACH][ATTACH]36602[/ATTACH] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 30, 2010 Report Share Posted July 30, 2010 Re: Zeppelins Some music for airships and airplanes here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted August 1, 2010 Report Share Posted August 1, 2010 Re: Zeppelins Ah..Moffett Field. I was stationed there for a while in the Patrol. I had a get together with some of my old Navy buddies in San Fransico back a few years ago. We wanted to go into Hanger 3 (the old wooden airship hanger) that the Squadron used when we were there, but they had it closed off as unsafe. The Museum was still there, but the old static display P-3 was in rough shape. But even though it is now a Federal Airfield it brought back some memories. It's a crying shame no-one had bothered to maintain that, given that a) it's a museum and caring for the exhibits is their job, and the Orion is a beautiful airplane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted August 1, 2010 Report Share Posted August 1, 2010 Re: Zeppelins It's a crying shame no-one had bothered to maintain that' date=' given that a) it's a museum and caring for the exhibits is their job, and the Orion is a beautiful airplane.[/quote'] The Orion is still a solid flyer. Over 20+ years I got to work on P-3B's, P-3C's, UII's, UII.5's and UIII's. Good bird and tough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted August 2, 2010 Report Share Posted August 2, 2010 Re: Zeppelins Stephen Coonts has P-3s in his book America searching for the titular super-duper stealth sub and that came out in 2002. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Mackinder Posted August 3, 2010 Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 Re: Zeppelins The P-3 is still flown by various other countries. The RAAF has gotten very good service from their P-3s - to be phased out within the next ten years,and replaced by the P-8 (militarized 737) and some kind of UAV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted August 3, 2010 Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 Re: Zeppelins Ah yes' date=' the "Bayside Blimp" (an old Digital Hero article). Despite the alliterative name, it was a rigid-frame airship. And the casino used solid gold chips for the highest denomination (the value in metal was less that the chip's value, but some customers liked them as souvenirs).[/quote'] Thank you for the mention. That was my very first publication for pay, and I'm pretty proud of it. Airborne casino, restaurant, plus enough staterooms for overnight accomodations for a few dozen. Included a single-plane hangar as a nod to the Akron and Macon, too. It still operates in my campaign, but in Millennium City as a retro-attraction known locally as the Boblo Blimp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 4, 2010 Report Share Posted August 4, 2010 Re: Zeppelins Not many people seem to know the term "Zeppelin." Most people I've talked to call it a blimp, although one student called it a dirigible (which is correct). They do understand the term "airship," however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted August 4, 2010 Report Share Posted August 4, 2010 Re: Zeppelins Not many people seem to know the term "Zeppelin." Most people I've talked to call it a blimp' date=' although one student called it a dirigible (which is correct). They do understand the term "airship," however.[/quote'] Yep. Dirigibles (and Zeppelins) have rigid frames, while blimps do not. The Bayside Blimp / Boblo Blimp nickname is an intentional misnomer, created for PR purposes. (People tend to associate dirigibles with the Hindenburg, and associate blimps with the Goodyear Blimp. Which would make Joe Tourist feel safer?) But airship is a good general term covering both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted August 6, 2010 Report Share Posted August 6, 2010 Re: Zeppelins The P-3 is still flown by various other countries. The RAAF has gotten very good service from their P-3s - to be phased out within the next ten years' date='and replaced by the P-8 (militarized 737) and some kind of UAV.[/quote'] ahh...yes. The P-8. The X-3 Stilleto of the Patrol community. Or in plain language, the latest aviation boondoggle. I can't go into details, but basically the advisers guiding design and mission profile were drawn from the least important positions of the crew. The end design will pretty much miss the mark. The priority has shifted dramatically from maritime patrol to union appeasement and guaranteeing Boing X number of build contracts to support a minimum number of hires. There is a lot of innovation and new tech out there. But the P-8 isn’t it. Of course I don’t attend cocktail parties with Senators and have 27 PhD’s in “reading about maritime patrol” from the UW. But I do have 20+ years in actual patrol and served during the high water point of the US Maritime Patrol community when we actively prosecuted Soviet targets. And so many of the ‘cool’ ideas in the P-8 are, “umm, well that is a problem. But let’s not slow things up with excess discussion today. Let’s set a meeting for…….” ad nauseum. Personally I am glad I will neither have to fly on it or be near it during ops. Anyway, nuff said. I am merely an old crab, what do I know…. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted August 6, 2010 Report Share Posted August 6, 2010 Re: Zeppelins More to the thread subject. http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/217089.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Mackinder Posted August 7, 2010 Report Share Posted August 7, 2010 Re: Zeppelins ahh...yes. The P-8. The X-3 Stilleto of the Patrol community. Or in plain language, the latest aviation boondoggle. I can't go into details, but basically the advisers guiding design and mission profile were drawn from the least important positions of the crew. The end design will pretty much miss the mark. The priority has shifted dramatically from maritime patrol to union appeasement and guaranteeing Boing X number of build contracts to support a minimum number of hires. There is a lot of innovation and new tech out there. But the P-8 isn’t it. Of course I don’t attend cocktail parties with Senators and have 27 PhD’s in “reading about maritime patrol” from the UW. But I do have 20+ years in actual patrol and served during the high water point of the US Maritime Patrol community when we actively prosecuted Soviet targets. And so many of the ‘cool’ ideas in the P-8 are, “umm, well that is a problem. But let’s not slow things up with excess discussion today. Let’s set a meeting for…….” ad nauseum. Personally I am glad I will neither have to fly on it or be near it during ops. Anyway, nuff said. I am merely an old crab, what do I know…. Buying US hardware and then spending 5-10 years trying to make it work well enough to be called 'operational', seems to be a standard conundrum for the Australian Defense Force. Sometimes, it all works out - eventually ('O.H. Perry' frigates, HMASs Kanimbla and Manoora); sometimes it works out superbly (the F-111); and sometimes it simply doesn't (the Kaman Seasprite helo). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted August 7, 2010 Report Share Posted August 7, 2010 Re: Zeppelins Well, the Australian military did one thing right - they chose the Steyr AUG as their issue assault rifle (as did the Falkland Island Defense Force, to the chagrin of the British MoD). And Spense - what do you know? Probably more than those Senators and Piled Higher and Deepers who will probably never see the P8, let alone go operational in it. BTW - that's an amazing looking airship your Army's got itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 8, 2010 Report Share Posted August 8, 2010 Re: Zeppelins This is old news, but it would've been something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted August 19, 2010 Report Share Posted August 19, 2010 Re: Zeppelins Look like they pulled a Fox Network on it. . . y'know, it was good, it was innovative, so it got cancelled. C'mon, a blimp that could schlep half a kiloton of troops, vehicles and gear halfway around the world in less than a week and someone pulls the plug? sighs yet another ace piece of tech fades into the dimension known as "alternative history/what-could-have-been". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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