sunday fantasy #165: Alexandros Tsolakis & Irene Shamma’s “Airbia”
October 26, 2009, 12:32am
x planes
experimental aircraft. exotic aeromachines. oddities. sleek silver cigars. pedal-o-trons. soviet hive-mind bombers. aerial joy. the olden days. action shots. propaganda posters. etc
[xplanes] [at] [hotmail] [dot] [co] [dot] [uk]
Designed by Redfield. Icons by Cameron Hunt.
sunday fantasy #159: Keith Thompson, for the book Leviathan by Scott Westerfield
October 11, 2009, 10:53pm
“Airship Akron leaving for Cuba with bomber escort” (1933)
September 21, 2009, 7:31pm
“The Siemens torpedo glider, seen under the hull of Zeppelin L35.” (circa 1915)
September 15, 2009, 5:56pm
“In the event of a German war the Zeppelin type of dirigible balloon will be armed with torpedoes of the kind shown in this illustration. The torpedo is the invention of Major Unge, a Swedish military officer, and has been purchased by the German government. It will be launched from a cradle hanging beneath the envelope of the airship. The torpedo is a steel shell carrying 4 Ib. of high explosive, and it is driven through the air by a turbine at the rear, which is rotated by the smoke of a slow-burning compound within the shell..” (1909)
September 15, 2009, 4:15pm
““Anthony’s Wireless Airship.” A small powered blimp used in 1912 to demonstrate remote control of aircraft by wireless telegraphy. (“Professor Anthony has exhibited a method of airship control of his own by wireless. He and Leo Stephens recently gave an exhibition of starting, controlling, turning and stopping an airship by wireless which was quite a long distance from the station which controlled its action.”)”
thanks to John Wiseman for the link
September 14, 2009, 9:51pm
Edmond Charles Genet’s “Aeronaut” - a “Fish-shaped, horse-powered, paddle-wheel dirigible”. This is believed to be the first U.S. patent issued for an aeronautical invention, though it appears the documentation has been lost in time
It appeared in his book of 1825 titled “Memorial on the upward forces of fluids, and their applicability to several arts, sciences, and public improvements”
“From a scientific viewpoint this is the most important American publication in the field of aviation, for it is the first printed suggestion of the correct theory of the heavier than air machine..”
September 07, 2009, 3:45pm
sunday fantasy #133: Aerotropolis, by Nicholas DeSantis/B.G Seielstad, from Popular Science Nov 1939
(image found/reconstructed via here)
September 06, 2009, 7:12pm
