Airship Videos

Today I want to show you two Airship Videos that you might not have seen. The first one is from Aero Comercial LTDA (http://www.dirigivel.net/) they are a Brazilian company who are working with remote controlled advertising blimps. Check out more videos in their YouTube Channel and also a lot more info on their Website which is in Portuguese, but we have the auto translated version here for you. And now enjoy the videos

The second Video that I wanted to show you comes from Italy showing a hotair airship. Does anyone know more about this airship ? Have a look at the YoutTube Channel of dirigibile94 and enjoy the video here.


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Remote Controlled Blimps - suddenly see more

A few days back we talked about a Company called Altitude-Attitude and their remote controlled camera blimp. Besides using them for filming events they can also be used to reach places where the normal human eye wouldn't get to so easily for example to inspect an old buildings structure. Everywhere were you would need a scaffold to inspect something or where places are hard to reach a blimp can help giving you eyes in the sky and you suddenly see more that you did before. check out this video of the Altitude Attitude blimp flying in a church.

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Blimps can be used indoor as well as outdoor. The Swiss company MiniZepp has a number of outdoor RC-Blimps capable of flying effortlessly to 150 m high. Check out this video of a flight with an HD Camera mounted underneath the blimp.

minizepp minizepp 7m electric powered rc blimp
Uploaded by minizepp

But lighter-than-air systems don't only have to be used with traditional cameras MiniZepp demonstrated the usage of an infrared camera for aerial thermography on a tethered balloon, completely silent without noise or pollution, quickly setup and ready to use.

infra red aerial thermography with tethered balloon
Uploaded by minizepp

The market for small airships being used for aerial imaging and advertising is growing but this is not the only market. AirshipSurveillance has been very successful in the security and defense market. So let's look forward to the future right now it seems very bright for any kind of airships.

One last thing, is a quick follow-up. I have updated the post "Believe in Tomorrow Children's Foundation - Blimp Video" some might have noticed that the first video didn't work, this happened because the video was taken down for re-editing and is now back up. So if you missed it before check it out now.

Let's have some Altitude-Attitude

© Altitude-Attitude

You have probably seen those big camera cranes that are used in movie and TV productions to provide aerial shots. Some are up to 100ft high but what if you want to go 150 ft? Well you either need a bigger crane or you need to fly. Traditional means of flying are planes and helicopters. If you want to shoot at one location a plane is not the right option since it can not hover, a helicopter can. Using a helicopter though has the big disadvantage of a lot of noise, vibrations and the enormous wind the rotor generates downwards, so low altitude and low vibration video shoots aren't possible by using any kind of traditional aircraft. But an airship can solve exactly this problem. It is almost silent, with little to no vibrations, can hover over one spot without costing energy since it is lighter than air and doesn't generate downward wind that might disturb the scene that should be shot. So video airships are a great alternative for aerial filming and photography. The Metlife Blimp for example is filming the PGA Golf tour and provides fantastic footage. Check out this clip from the PGA Tour to get an impression. But such a big Airship can only be used outside and might actually be to big if you just want to shoot a small scene, especially at low altitude. Which leaves room for small remote controlled blimps and airships that are equipped with a camera. One company that offers these services is Altitude-Attitude, a Belgian company focusing on aerial photo and video production. They have already done quite a few projects with their camera equipped blimp. Besides having more freedom of movement in the three dimensional space a small airship also doesn't need to be set up extensively like a crane. It can arrive on site, maybe has to be filled with helium and can start flying. By using a wireless video transmitter the airship can even deliver live aerial video. Check out these YouTube Videos to see the blimp in action or go to the Altitude-Attitude Website and check out their galleries.

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altitude-attitude.com clip demo dirigeable


altitude-attitude.com video blimp in Macau

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The Airship One Project from Poland

© Worclaw University Poland

No we aren't talking about this AirshipOne we are talking about Airship One (notice the space) it's a Polish airship project from the Wrocław University in Poland. This is a short summary what the project is about:

AirShip One is a construction project of blimp with wireless piloting, that can transfer image from air in real time. Academic Aerial Club has made this project with thought about relating public events in big halls. Purpose of project is accustoming of new technical thought to life, introduction of innovative solutions and exploring of knowledge acquired on Wroclaw University of Technology in practice. Three scientific groups work over project AKL - Aerial Academic Club, DaVinci - Aerial Scientific Group, SP6PWT – Academic Club of Radio Control System also TV STYK - Student Television. AirShip One project has been made in order to cope with claims of media in range advanced relating 'on live' performances. AirShip One is an universal platform which will be capable to take up any optional equipment wanted for realization of intentional purpose. Due to big lateral surface, it can be taken advantage as flying advertising. Appliance construction without skeleton make transport easier and allows to move it in indoors by standard-sized entrances. Bearing capacity of ballast module unit totals 2 -kg. Weight without helium 10 -kg. length - 4; diameter - 2,2m; capacity – coverage 10m3 - 1000.

In our previous Video posts, here and here, we already featured the airship but here are the links to the YouTube videos again:

• AirShip One - Sterowiec Transmisyjny
• AirShip One w TV STYK
• Tared 2008 AKL

We got a whitepaper on the project from the main coordinator Princo, unfortunately it is in Polish, we will try to get an English translation but for now you can skim over the Polish version it contains some schematic drawings of the airship and formulas that can be understood even without knowing Polish.

Read this doc on Scribd: KNS- AirShip One
Sterowiec RC, AirShip One, video-sterowiec, sterowiec transmisyjny, obraz Przemysław TOMKÓW Politechnika Wrocławska Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27 50-370 Wrocław Akademicki Klub Lotniczy opiekun naukowy Janusz Gogała AIRSHIP ONE – VIDEO-STEROWIEC RC AirShip One to projekt budowy sterowca pilotowanego bezprzewodowo, mogącego przekazywać obraz z powietrza na ziemię w czasie rzeczywistym. Akademicki Klub Lotniczy stworzył ten projekt z myślą o relacjonowaniu wydarzeń publicznych odbywających się w dużych pomieszczeniach zamkniętych. Celem projektu jest wdrożenie nowych myśli technicznych w życie, wprowadzenie innowacyjnych rozwiązań oraz wykorzystanie wiedzy nabytej na Politechnice Wrocławskiej w praktyce. Nad projektem pracują dwa koła naukowe: AKL - Akademicki Klub Lotniczy oraz Studencki Klub Krótkofalowców – Eter. W projekt włączyła się również TV Styk – Telewizja Studencka. AirShip One stworzono, aby sprostać wymaganiom mediów w zakresie zaawansowanego relacjonowania imprez „on live”. AirShip One to uniwersalna platforma mogąca wynieść dowolną aparaturę potrzebną do realizacji zamierzonego celu. Dzięki dużej powierzchni bocznej, może on być wykorzystywany jako latająca reklama. Zastosowanie konstrukcji bezszkieletowej ułatwia transport oraz pozwala na wprowadzenie sterowca przez wejścia standardowych rozmiarów. Nośność kasetowego modułu balastowego wynosi 3kg. waga bez helu wynosi 10kg. Długość – 4,35m; średnica- 2,2m; objętość – 10m3 zasięg - 1000m. 1.AirShip One – Video-sterowiec RC 1.KONSTRUKCJA Konstrukcja sterowca opiera się o zastosowanie najnowszych dostępnych materiałów. Kryteria, jakimi się kierowaliśmy to bezpieczeństwo, ergonomia, żywotność. Dzięki konstrukcji bezszkieletowej sterowiec będzie łatwy w transporcie i znacznie prostszy w przygotowaniu do lotu. Chcąc podnieść bezawaryjność zdecydowaliśmy o maksymalnym uproszczeniu systemu napędowego oraz systemu sterowania, który zapewnia 7 kanałowa aparatura. Ergonomiczne rozwiązanie kasetowego modułu balastowego znacznie upraszcza montaż oraz ułatwia eksploatację 1.1.PLATFORMA NOŚNA Nośność zapewnia powłoka z tworzywa poliuretanowego wypełniona helem balonowym. Tworzywa poliuretanowe otrzymane na bazie poliestrów liniowych są odporne na oleje, smary, wodę, benzynę i rozcieńczone kwasy i ługi. Hel jest gazem zupełnie bezpiecznym (gaz niepalny) i obojętnym dla środowiska naturalnego. Aby sterowiec wyniósł kamerę z modułem nadawczym ważącą 1,5kg oraz gondolę z silnikami i układem sterowania musi mieć odpowiednią objętość. Z równania Clapeyrona obliczyliśmy nośność 1m3 helu.[1] Sterowiec będzie pracował w obiektach zamkniętych, dlatego przyjęliśmy iż ciśnienie otoczenia wynosi 100kPa. Wysokość lotu ograniczona jest wysokością hali dla uproszczenia założyliśmy, iż wynosi ona 50m. Dla tak małej różnicy wysokości przyrost ciśnienia oraz temperatury możemy pominąć. Masa 1m3 powietrza atmosferycznego wynosi: pV = mRT m p= pV R pT (1) mp=nMp Rp= 8314,7 = 287,12 28,96 (2)  (1) (2) mp = Masa 1m3 czystego helu wynosi: pV = mRT 101325 ⋅ 1 = 1,383kg 287,12 ⋅ 298 mh = pV Rh T (1) mh=nMh Rh= 8314,7 = 2068,3 4,02 (2)  (1) (2) mh = 101325 ⋅ 1 = 0,165kg 2068,3 ⋅ 298 Mp – masa molowa powietrza 28.96g/mol Mh – masa molowa helu 4g/mol mp – masa powietrza mh – masa helu Rp - stała gazowa dla powietrza Rh – stała gazowa dla helu MR – uniwersalna stała gazowa 8315 P - ciśnienie 101,325 kPa V- objętość 1m3 J kg ⋅ K Nośność 1m3 czystego helu wynosi: mp- mh=1,38-0,17=1,21kg W rzeczywistości nośność 1m3 helu wynosi ok. 1kg. Dzieje się tak dlatego, że do napełniania sterowca używalmy helu balonowego o czystości 92-95% Całkowitej masa konstrukcji: Masa powłoki (3,7kg) + masa gondoli (1,2kg)+ masa kamery (0,4kg) + masa akumulatorów(0,7kg) +moduł operacyjny(3kg)+balast wyważający(0,5kg) = 9,5kg Wymiary powłoki: Aby wynieść ciężar 9,5kg potrzebujemy powłokę o objętości: 9,5m 3 na hel 4.0 + 0,5m3 wynikające z konieczności pozostawienia rezerwy na rozszerzalność cieplną helu. Zastosowany zawór bezpieczeństwa chroni korpus przed nadmiernym ciśnieniem gazu. Objętość powłoki powinna wynosić ok. 10m3. Założenia te spełnia elipsa obrotowa o średnicy D=4,35m d=2,2m. 2. Wymiary powłoki 1.2.NAPĘD ORAZ STREROWANIE Napęd stanowią trzy silniki. Dwa klasy SPEED 400 o ciągu 350g każdy odpowiedzialne za ruch; przódtył, góra-dół umieszczone na ruchomych pylonach z włókien węglowych sterowanych mikro serwomechanizmem. Trzeci silnik klasy SPEED 260 umieszczony w dolnym stateczniku pionowym stanowi część fenestronu i odpowiedzialny jest za obracanie sterowca prawo-lewo. Odbiornik oraz pakiet akumulatorów znajdować się będzie w gondoli. 1.3. PRZESYŁANIE OBRAZU Zestaw nadawczo odbiorczy stanowi nadajnik z wbudowaną anteną umożliwia bezprzewodową transmisję sygnału video i fonii w paśmie 5,8Ghz oraz odbiornik umożliwiający odbiór 4 kanałów w sekwencji z regulowanym czasem. Oba elementy zamknięte są w hermetycznej obudowie oraz zasilane są napięciem 12V. Dla zapewnienia ciągłości transmisji wizyjnej wykorzystywane są dwie baterie. Jedna zamontowana w zestawie będzie umożliwiała nieustanną transmisję przez co najmniej 6 godzin, natomiast druga będzie jej zamiennikiem. Ładowanie odbywać się będzie w stacji dokującej w celu umożliwienia jak najprostszej obsługi urządzenia. 2.WYKONANIE Nad budową sterowca pracują 2 koła naukowe Politechniki Wrocławskiej. o o Akademicki Klub Lotniczy – Międzywydziałowe Koło Naukowe Akademicki Klub Krótkofalarski - Eter AKL odpowiedzialny jest za budowę platformy latającej oraz wyposażenie jej w system napędowy oraz system sterowania. Prace prowadzone są w 6-cio osobowym zespole. SP6PWT odpowiada za budowę modułu przesyłu obrazu. Poszczególne etapy powstawiania sterowca: Etap rozpoznawczy – gromadzone są informacje na temat sterowców systemów przechwytu obrazu oraz przesyłu danych. Prowadzone jest badanie rynku w celu rozpoznania podaży oraz popytu na świadczenie usługi video-transmisji z powietrza. Etap konstrukcyjny – określane są kryteria konstrukcyjne, ustalane są pożądane charakterystyki sprzętowe. Następnie wyliczana jest masa podzespołów oraz żądana nośność sterowca. Z równania Clapeyrona otrzymujemy lotność 1m3 helu na podstawie czego dobierane są parametry gabarytowe powłoki. Obliczane są osiągi poszczególnych systemów. Etap ten kończy się utworzeniem listy podzespołów potrzebnych do budowy platformy latającej oraz modułu nadawczego. Etap montażowy – budowa gondoli, powłoki oraz modułu przesyłu obrazu. Prace montażowe prowadzone są w pracowni modelarskiej Młodzieżowego Domu Kultury, z którym zostało podpisane porozumienie na potrzeby realizacji projektu. Oblatywanie sterowca – próby w locie. W pierwszej fazie lot odbywa się bez modułu przesyłu obrazu, który zastępowany jest dodatkowym balastem. Sprawdzana jest sterowność oraz stateczność konstrukcji. Wyznaczane są charakterystyki graniczne tj. prędkość maksymalna, udźwig, zasięg, czas obrotu, czas pracy silników. W drugiej fazie testów sprawdzana jest funkcjonalność modułu video-transmisyjnego. 3.ZASTOSOWANIE Sterowiec będzie wykorzystywany do transmitowania obrazu na imprezach odbywających się w obiektach zamkniętych. Zastosowanie sterowca można rozszerzyć o zrzut ulotek lub pomiar poziomu hałasu. Elementy ruchome lepiej skupiają uwagę odbiorców niż ekspozycje statyczne. Na powierzchni bocznej nadrukowany zostanie baner z logo Politechniki Wrocławskiej, dzięki czemu sterowiec będzie również wykorzystywany w celach promocyjnych uczelni. 4.AirShip One w Auli bud. A1 Politechniki Wrocławskiej - symulacja Wersja rozwojowa przeznaczona będzie do użytku zewnętrznego, a jej zadaniem będzie pomiar poziomu hałasu oraz stworzenie akustycznej mapy miasta Wrocławia. LITERATURA [1] KALINOWSKI E, „Termodynamika Techniczna”, Wrocław, Politechnika Wrocławska, 1979, 14-18 TYTUŁ PRACY W JĘZYKU ANGIELSKIM AirShip One is a construction project of blimp with wireless piloting, that can transfer image from air in real time. Academic Aerial Club has made this project with thought about relating public events in big halls. Purpose of project is accustoming of new technical thought to life, introduction of innovative solutions and exploring of knowledge acquired on Wroclaw University of Technology in practice. Three scientific groups work over project AKL - Aerial Academic Club, DaVinci - Aerial Scientific Group, SP6PWT – Academic Club of Radio Control System also TV STYK - Student Television. AirShip One project has been made in order to cope with claims of media in range advanced relating 'on live' performances. AirShip One is an universal platform which will be capable to take up any optional equipment wanted for realization of intentional purpose. Due to big lateral surface, it can be taken advantage as flying advertising. Appliance construction without skeleton make transport easier and allows to move it in indoors by standard-sized entrances. Bearing capacity of ballast module unit totals 2 -kg. Weight without helium 10 -kg. length - 4; diameter - 2,2m; capacity – coverage 10m3 - 1000.

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The home made Robotic Blimp

© Surveyor Corporation

The Surveyor Corporation is currently working on constructing a small robotic blimp called YARB 1.0 (Yet Another Robotic Blimp) in their weekly update on their Build Log they report their progress regularly. It's quite impressive what is possible with just a little bit of electronics. So if you are interested in remote controlled blimps, autonomous blimps, and UAVs head over to the YARB Buildlog. They also have a video of each development step on their Site and on YouTube.

More on Airship Surveillance Inc.

© Airship Surveillance Inc.

We did a little bit of searching and dug out a couple press releases concerning Airship Surveillance Inc. Here are they in newest to oldest order, most interesting is probably the newest one released this Thursday regarding the Letter of Intent by Auxillia a company focusing on Unmanned System Technologies.

• Airship Surveillance Receives LOI From Auxilia
• Airship Surveillance Begins Construction of L2 Airship
• Airship Surveillance Announces Successful Airship Test
• Airship Surveillance Appoints New Board Member
• Airship Surveillance Sets First Flight Target Date
• Airship Surveillance Announces Testing Milestone
• First Airship to Be Launched in March
• WENR Negotiating Marketing Agreement for Airship

The configuration of the propulsion system used by Airship Surveillance is very similar to that of Daniel Geerys Hyperblimp and of course can also be seen in some of the airships flown during the RC Airship Regatta. Check out the videos of Hinkelstein, Homer and LarsPing. If you have more info about Airship Surveillance or want to discuss the role of UAVs and airships for security purposes head over to our Forum and start a new topic, it's now integrated into the Airshipworld site and looks mighty fine. Let us know what you think. Also please remember that we are still looking for speakers for the Airshipworld Conference the end of May 2008. If you have a topic that you would like to talk about please let us know by the end of the week.

The Airship League

Have you ever thought: "Wouldn't it be cool if more people would be interested in Airships?" If you answered "Yes" then you are like me, if you answered "No" then I guess we have to convince you that it would be cool if more people would be interested. But as a matter of fact Airships are in the minds of people, be it in books or movies. If there is an event, hundreds even thousands of people are coming to an event like the airship parade. But what is keeping airships out of the mainstream. It's that fact that many people do not know what is possible with airships, many think they are gone for good because of the Hindenburg and all that jazz.
But what if there where an organization that would try to a) make airships exciting and b) educate more people about the possibilities and technologies behind airships. And that's where tonights headline starts making sense. The Idea is to create an "Airship League" an open and free (as in beer) organization that helps organizing races and contests around airships, that also hosts educational material about how to construct a remote controlled blimp what to look out for. The Airship League could showcase good successful designs, help educating and connecting children, students, universities, companies and the general public. This is of course some how far fetched and visionary but the idea is to aim high and then see what is realistic. So to gather Ideas we created a page in our Wiki called The Airship League it would be great to get the ideas and the brainstorming going. Please sign up for the Airshipworld Wiki if you haven't done so, yet. We believe that such an organization might help the industry as a whole and get more people interested in airships. Please feel free to add to the Article in the Wiki, add new pages link to existing projects. We believe that just by combining our efforts and joining forces, we can change a lot without having to invest much more than our time that we spend on our own efforts already.

YouTube airship video for the break

Since we have been very busy the last 4 days we didn't really have time to catch up with the current news, this week we will try to catch up, and then trying to empty our queue of older "news" items that might not be so new anymore but still worth mentioning. To report about something different then the Airship parade our reader Allan Janus made our life easy today by pointing out two videos on YouTube that we haven't mentioned yet. The first Video is a video of a little RC-Blimp built by Benjamin Lawless. The video is called: The Lawless Airship

This video reminded me of our coverage of the RC-Airship regatta back in July and Daniel Geerys Hyperblimp. I think it would be cool to have something like a world league of rc-airship races, competing in different classes and styles of races. If you have an idea, or would like to get some people together for a race, post in the comments or send us an email, maybe we can work something out and help organizing such an event. If you want to you can add a page to the Airshipworld Wiki about RC airship races.
The Second Video is a video of the Met Life Blimp flying over Coney Island in 1996

If you want to know more, read our post about the Metlife Blimp with links to their website and detailed informations about the blimp program.

Links:

• 5th Airship parade
• RC-Airship regatta
• Hyperblimp by Daniel Geery
• Airshipworld Wiki
• MetLife blimp making pitstop before crossing Lake Michigan

RC Airship Regatta - official results

So just a quick follow-up article to our previous post about the rc airship regatta 2007. The official results are out here is the list of the airships and their pilots:

1. Iris - Johannes Eißing
2. Centriolo - Dominik Baumüller
3. Dubbel Bubbel 2 (TU München) - Christian Rößler
4. Homer - Phillip Neuhaus
5. Hinkelstein (TU Berlin) - Martin Zobel
6. Kirby (Stuttgart) - Wolfgang Heydlauff
7. Microbe (Beyond Gravity) - Dominik Baumüller
8. LarsPing (TU Berlin) - Martin Zobel
9. Dubbel Bubbel - Gerhard Hattinger
10. EAP-Blimp C20 - EMPA-Erich

To get a even more detailed list with times and sizes, and statistics you can go to the files Section of the rc_airship_regatta Yahoo group under München 2007 you will find the Results labeled "Auswertung_Airship-Race2007_Muenchen.pdf". You can only access these Files if you are a member of the Group, but membership is free so join the group, and tell them that we sent you. Also in the group you can find some additional photos from the event in the Photo Albums under Muenchen DGLR2007.

RC Airship Regatta Munich coverage

Sorry that there wasn't a post yesterday, but I was out on the (rail)road to Munich for the RC Airship Regatta. The regatta was the closing event of this years DGLR workshop. Here is our coverage complete with pictures and videos. There were 10 airships present, in order of appearance those were:

• Kirby - Wolfgang Heydlauff(TU Stuttgart)
• Centriolo - Dominik Baumüller
• Homer - Philip Neuhaus
• EAPinguin -Erich Fink
• Double Bubble - Gerhard Hattinger
• Double Bubble 2
  
• Mikrobe - Dominik Baumüller
• LarsPing - Martin
• Iris - Johannes Eißing
• Hinkelstein - Martin

The RC Airship Regatta was first held 4 years ago and ever since it has been held in context of the yearly DGLR meetings and at special events. The goal is to try out new airship designs in the small and let them compete against each other. It's also an opportunity for students and younger people to get interested and involved with airships and LTA technology. Johannes Eissing is the organizer of the regattas and set up a yahoo group at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rc_airship_regatta for communication, organization and planning of regattas. Everybody interested in remote controlled blimps and airship design is welcome to join. Right now these events are only in Germany, but if there are interested people around the world who would like to set up such events in their country, please contact us at airshipworld or Johannes. Mini airships are a great way to get involved and also to raise the visibility of airships in the public. The designs competing this the race should not be confused with toys, they are built by people who are involved in airships in the day job, like Johannes who previously worked for Cargolifter and is now working for Zeppelin. If you already have a remote controlled blimp and would like to race someone, send us an email, and we will help you organize a race.
Check out our slideshow and webalbum on Picassa containing fotos of the race:

We also have a few videos of the runs up on YouTube as a playlist, check them out:

Hyperblimp an UFO over Salt Lake City

A few days ago Daniel Geerys Hyperblimp caused some buzz around his hometown Salt Lake City. He tried out a new propeller which showed good results, but turned out to suck the battery dry in minutes. The result was that the Blimp was left uncontrollable hovering over the downtown area of Salt Lake. All this caused quite some people to look into the sky and worry what that UFO up in the sky might be. The local TV Station KUTV has an extensive Article about the event with video and picture footage. it's worth a read. Also FOX news reported on it with a video. This is of course some great publicity for blimps and airships, since it shows once again what kind of outreach an airship can have when used for advertising, but I think Daniel, had not really intended to create so much media attention. If you want to see more of this RC-Blimp (remote controlled blimp) check out these YouTube videos

To see even more videos you should check out Daniel Geerys YouTube Site. If you want to see some other RC-blimp and airships fly and you happen to live in Europe why don't you check out the RC Airship Regatta this Saturday in Munich Germany, we will be there and take pictures and videos, hope to see you there. For more informations email us at our known email address or post a comment. If you can't stop by check the blog, we will cover the event with some special posts.