Questions tagged [airships]
For questions involving large flying objects that are lighter than air.
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Keeping an airship aloft using only propellers (and nuclear reactors)
Airships!
Many people love them, many see them as a flying safety hazard, especially the hydrogen-filled kind. And recently, I've thought about the other alternative:
Propeller-Airships!
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Maximizing efficiency of the The geodesic sphere (literally being on cloud nine)
I’ve read about the geodesic sphere from other questions here and the underlying thing that confuses me isn’t the materials or the physics since both work, it’s making people live inside one. But what ...
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Could a city float with lifting gas? [duplicate]
Specifically hydrogen, not helium that’s too expensive, could we make a city or even a building float in the air via hydrogen gas. I know it’s kind of silly but I need to know if it would work
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What reason would a military have for large aircraft reasonably co-existance with big rocket powered "flying barges"? [closed]
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Having spent a lot of time with Ace-Combat and Highfleet I got to thinking up a table top world a-la Imperial Skies which is set in an alternative 20th century. The setting being developed ...
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When would a cannon be a quick weather device if you put a sock in it?
I’ve had an aerial combat scene written for a while but I’m not sure how to describe the environment that would make it work. In in the heat of pursuit, my very salty Captain is frustrated at his ...
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How to make a hybrid mapping system for aircraft on barren planets without celestial or compass use?
My captains and pirates belt out lots of navigational commands and jargon, but none of it can relate to terrestrial maps. So I’m needing a system they use in transit and combat, that they will ...
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Designing a catamaran as workable masted airship for swashbuckling on the maindecks
I am crafting a hybrid power/sailing airship that needs an exterior scene similar to swashbuckling on the main decks among the sails. Putting a mast on an airship with a big round envelope just isn’t ...
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Possible layouts for a sci-fi military airship [closed]
My story features airships that fly by using applying electrical to a strange mineral to generate antigravity. By altering the current the airship can increase or decrease its height. Since they don't ...
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In a world where gravity pass from 1 G to 5 G in a cycle of 365 days, can planes fly all the time?
I am writing a book and I have this cenario. There is a planet where gravity pass from 1 G to 5 G in a cycle of 365 days. I know that humans can survive till 3-5G, but what about airplanes capability ...
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Saturnian Cloud Cities Pt. 7- Kronothermal Hydrogen Pumps
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So my Cloud-cities, were practically Rigid-Hull Airships made of titanium and graphene to withstand severe wind-speeds and turbulent weather on Saturn. The Cloud-cities in question, are floating ...
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Intelligent bees build a military dirigible -- how is it different?
For this world honeybees have practical philosophies like those of humans. Their architecture is, overall, near identical to the nest design of real honeybees, and they have the same way of life
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Alternate materials to build an airship
I am etching out a spec evo project involving small carnivorous sapient beings. I intend these creatures to never discover the secret of heavier-than-air flight, so instead they construct highly ...
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Saturnian Cloud-Cities Pt. 6 :- Geothermal Cables Vs Stupendously Large Airships
In my previous questions, I discussed the possibility of cloud cities on Saturn
And there were a few technologies which could be useful for the colony. The cloud-cities in question are giant airships,...
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Saturnian Cloud Cities Pt. 5- Shielding of Cloud-Cities from Saturnian Weather
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In the (near) future, after space travel has become affordable to even the common man, cloud cities are deployed on Saturn as it has favourable conditions such as Earth-like ...
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Saturnian Cloud Cities Pt. 4- How to deploy the cloud-city
This is my fourth question in the series Saturnian Cloud Cities. Click to see the previous question
The diagram of the cloud city is given below, but I will try to describe it in a nutshell.
The ...
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