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freebeard · 07-04-2021, 06:28 PM

I've had this tab open for days. Now I know why.

http://www.hisutton.com/images/Fr_G20_Prototype.jpg

I thought it was for that landing gear.

The airships needed higher power/volume ratio and more rigidity. The optimal aeroform can have it's back broken. The smallest volume would be acquired with a hot Hydrogen partial vacuum. It could be surrounded by a thermal/electrical insulating blanket of Helium or steam. Rigidity could be acquired with a tensegrity geodesic structure. That might look like this:

This is an externally braced icosahedron for clarity. Higher frequencies would have a quasi-compound curve.

07-04-2021, 06:28 PM	#19 (permalink)
freebeard Master EcoModder Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: northwest of normal Posts: 29,071 Thanks: 8,253 Thanked 9,012 Times in 7,446 Posts	I've had this tab open for days. Now I know why. http://www.hisutton.com/images/Fr_G20_Prototype.jpg I thought it was for that landing gear. The airships needed higher power/volume ratio and more rigidity. The optimal aeroform can have it's back broken. The smallest volume would be acquired with a hot Hydrogen partial vacuum. It could be surrounded by a thermal/electrical insulating blanket of Helium or steam. Rigidity could be acquired with a tensegrity geodesic structure. That might look like this: This is an externally braced icosahedron for clarity. Higher frequencies would have a quasi-compound curve. __________________ . .Without freedom of speech we wouldn't know who all the idiots are. -- anonymous poster ____________________ . .What the headline giveth, the last paragraph taketh away. -- Scott Ott