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Date: 01 Jul 2007 21:23:53
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Subject: Early aero
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Actual pedal-powered dirigible:
http://www.earlyaviator.com/archive/DS/DS438.1907.SkyCycle.Dixon.jpg
Cheers,
Carl Fogel
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Date: 02 Jul 2007 19:09:46
From: Michael Press
Subject: Re: Early aero
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In article
<pqrg83dd1h22squ3uvr18e1pjb759vtsne@4ax.com >,
carlfogel@comcast.net wrote:
> Actual pedal-powered dirigible:
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> http://www.earlyaviator.com/archive/DS/DS438.1907.SkyCycle.Dixon.jpg
I just flew in from Cleveland, and, boy, are my legs tired.
ba BAM!
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Michael Press
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Date: 01 Jul 2007 21:21:04
From: Brian Huntley
Subject: Re: Early aero
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On Jul 1, 10:56 pm, Mark Shroyer <usenet-m...@markshroyer.com > wrote:
> On 2007-07-02, carlfo...@comcast.net <carlfo...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > Actual pedal-powered dirigible:
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> >http://www.earlyaviator.com/archive/DS/DS438.1907.SkyCycle.Dixon.jpg
>
[snip
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> Even so, if this guy was able to build this a century ago more
> or less on his own, then surely doing so today, given modern
> advances in materials and the wide availability of bicycle
> parts, wouldn't be too difficult... it almost seems like the
> helium would be the most expensive part. FAA be damned, it
> would be beautiful to commute to campus in my very own
> Verne-esque v=E9loblimp. So who wants to draw up some plans?
>
He probably made his own hydrogen, via the classic H2SO4 and Zinc
method. Both were fairly easy to get in decent purities until fairly
recently. Seventy-odd years before my highschool experience, it was
probably not an issue at all for a young person to get them.
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Date: 02 Jul 2007 03:56:52
From: Mark Shroyer
Subject: Re: Early aero
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On 2007-07-02, carlfogel@comcast.net <carlfogel@comcast.net > wrote:
> Actual pedal-powered dirigible:
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> http://www.earlyaviator.com/archive/DS/DS438.1907.SkyCycle.Dixon.jpg
Yikes, that doesn't exactly look like something I'd want to
entrust my life to. I'll admit right here that I had to Google
this guy before I completely accepted this photo as authentic.
Even so, if this guy was able to build this a century ago more
or less on his own, then surely doing so today, given modern
advances in materials and the wide availability of bicycle
parts, wouldn't be too difficult... it almost seems like the
helium would be the most expensive part. FAA be damned, it
would be beautiful to commute to campus in my very own
Verne-esque véloblimp. So who wants to draw up some plans?
--
Mark Shroyer
http://markshroyer.com/
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Date: 01 Jul 2007 23:58:31
From: A Muzi
Subject: Re: Early aero
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> carlfogel@comcast.net <carlfogel@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Actual pedal-powered dirigible:
>> http://www.earlyaviator.com/archive/DS/DS438.1907.SkyCycle.Dixon.jpg
Mark Shroyer wrote:
> Yikes, that doesn't exactly look like something I'd want to
> entrust my life to. I'll admit right here that I had to Google
> this guy before I completely accepted this photo as authentic.
>
> Even so, if this guy was able to build this a century ago more
> or less on his own, then surely doing so today, given modern
> advances in materials and the wide availability of bicycle
> parts, wouldn't be too difficult... it almost seems like the
> helium would be the most expensive part. FAA be damned, it
> would be beautiful to commute to campus in my very own
> Verne-esque véloblimp. So who wants to draw up some plans?
Alfred E Neumann?
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Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971
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Date: 02 Jul 2007 04:28:21
From: Kerry Montgomery
Subject: Re: Early aero
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"Mark Shroyer" <usenet-mail@markshroyer.com > wrote in message
news:slrnf8gtrr.1cr.usenet-mail@sed.homestarmy.dynalias.net...
> On 2007-07-02, carlfogel@comcast.net <carlfogel@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Actual pedal-powered dirigible:
>>
>> http://www.earlyaviator.com/archive/DS/DS438.1907.SkyCycle.Dixon.jpg
>
> Yikes, that doesn't exactly look like something I'd want to
> entrust my life to. I'll admit right here that I had to Google
> this guy before I completely accepted this photo as authentic.
>
> Even so, if this guy was able to build this a century ago more
> or less on his own, then surely doing so today, given modern
> advances in materials and the wide availability of bicycle
> parts, wouldn't be too difficult... it almost seems like the
> helium would be the most expensive part. FAA be damned, it
> would be beautiful to commute to campus in my very own
> Verne-esque véloblimp. So who wants to draw up some plans?
>
> --
> Mark Shroyer
> http://markshroyer.com/
These guys might sell you their plans:
http://home.teleport.com/~reedg/whitedwarf.html
Kerry
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