US Baby Blimp (oz14357)

 

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When I was a child in the 70's until 1984 a Good Year blimp was a daily show in the sky of Rome. Italy rented for some year a GY blimp like this based in an hangar builted in the North of Rome. It has a night lighting all over the blimp in order to make writings or designes for the joy of childrens on Christmas period. In the field around the hangar site in 1972 was held a F3A national contest in wich I saw the very first commercial rc Hely Huey Cobra by Schuco-Hegy launched in this year. A dream. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLTm-A2TWGE or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBy-RLfP-mk
pit - 03/02/2023
I guess this was a static display model, no provisions for rubber of propeller visible.
As a kid in the 1970-ies I had a generic model of an airship that was hanging on a thin thread beneath the lamp in my room. Control surfaces were considerably enlarged and propulsion was provided by a small electric motor and 2 AA cells, driving a large transparent airscrew at the rear of the model. It reached surprising speeds when circling around. Don´t know when or how it was lost.
Martin - 03/02/2023
Fair point, this is not a FF or rubber model. Have changed this listing to category='extra', also added 'static model' to the description, which is hopefully more logical :)
SteveWMD - 03/02/2023
It could be made as an electric ceiling tethered model circling around the room. Another kind of toy of the 70's
pit - 03/02/2023
I recall magazine reports of indoor flying in empty US Navy blimp hangars, perhaps in the 50s or 60s. Just a bit bigger than your village multi-sports hall, I'd guess.
Miguel - 03/02/2023
I wonder if it would fly on whatever magic makes Roy Clough’s Martian Spaceship go
TimE - 03/02/2023
Watch this :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIJINiK9azc
non-Miguel - 03/02/2023
I once picked up one of these fairground balloons made of super thin aluminium foil that was lazily floating by the roadside, just to keep it out of harm´s way. For the rest of my way home it hovered on in the back of my Citroen BX hatchback. That´s what an encounter with a friendly alien must feel like.
Martin - 04/02/2023
On page 33 of Aeromodeller Annual there is a plan for a flying version of this blimp engined by a Cox 010 or 020. See https://rclibrary.co.uk/title_details.asp?ID=1880
pit - 05/02/2023
Correction: Aeromodeller Annual 1965-66 pag 33 see: https://rclibrary.co.uk/title_details.asp?ID=2335
pit - 05/02/2023
I can't remember who it was, or where I saw the article, but a guy made a beautiful model dirigible, maybe 20 feet long, that flew. Probably not for outdoors, though there was a picture of him towing it around in his neighborhood. The structure was a gazillion very thin pieces. If I recall correctly, at one point a cat jumped through it. I don't know if that was the end, or if he rebuilt.
In the "Complete Model Aircraft Manual", there's a plan for a flying blimp, about three feet long. It's not terribly scale. Also, instructions for making your own hydrogen gas!
LR - 09/02/2023
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