BLIMPTRAIN

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Tunnel

>>936786
momentum means you can attach and detach without a problem.

>>936781
is the blimp pulling the train or is the train pulling the blimp?

>>936899
Clearly the latter

>>936900
Oh...
And here I was thinking that this was just for keks because a blimp pulling a train would be horribly horribly horribly inefficient.

>>936786
fuck off

>>936897

>without a problem

Except for the problem that the blimp is subject to wind etc. and might not be in the same spot for attaching anymore.

>>936897
>without a problem
That's the main problem with this whole sperg. It's trying to solve the problem with blimps that doesn't exist in trains, by adding trains. Trains are already perfectly serviceable for transportation. No need for the blimp.

>>936979
>>936981
Do you guys think there is going to be a stiff tether or something?

>>936981
But blimps/airships are cool, but are terrible for anything other than recreation and static surveillance. I would certainly pay more to go on a train ride in a blimp/airship.

>>936786
At that point the blimp will lift the train up

There's literally no reason not to build this.

>>937022

>stiff tether

How is it connected with the train?

On the picture I see a line of some sorts, probably a rope? How are you going to reconnect that after passing a tunnel?

Keep in mind that the train can't just stop on the spot and that the blimp is moving freely after being disconnected so it is subject to wind.

>>937078
Grappling hook fired from a harpoon

>>937078
>Keep in mind that the train can't just stop on the spot and that the blimp is moving freely after being disconnected so it is subject to wind.
That is only an issue for long tunnels.
For bridges, you just disconnect at the train, wait for the line to go over the bridge, and reconnect. The blimp isn't going to move that much in the half-quarter of a second.
and if it does move too much, you can just throw out more slack so reconnecting is easier and then reel in the slack.

As far as long tunnels are concerned, just don't use blimptrains or trainblimps on those lines.

>>937093
*half to quarter of a second*

>>936903
>And here I was thinking that this was just for keks because a blimp pulling a train would be horribly horribly horribly inefficient.
Depends on the winds. In favorable conditions the blimp could serve as a sail/kite to pull the train.

>>936979
>>937078
You know how heavier-than-air gliders can glide into the wind, and how submarines can also "glide" unpowered using buoyancy like in the movie U-571?
Well if the blimp's buoyant enough it could glide into the wind too, while ascending. Then they just have to extend the tether quickly enough to match their ascent rate and reattach before they ascend into oblivion.

The other option is just to have blimp masts at either end of every tunnel, and simply trade blimps as you pass through the tunnel.

>>937129
>simply trade blimps as you pass through the tunnel
Bringing each blimp back to the station it just left. You weren't the bright one in the litter, were you?

>>937133
The blimp wouldn't be for transport or overflow, it would be for a fast and improved blimp ride.
You would get to see everything you see on a train ride, but better because you could see more and you are in a blimp.

You could just have a aircraft catapult like system to carry it over the tunnel.

>>936786
Reel in the blimp to its dedicated car and degas/fold the bag, you ignorant cornmuffin.

>>937093

>half quarter of a second

Either the train moves very quickly in which case the blimp will just be lost because aerodynamics or the train moves very slowly which gives the blimp enough time to move out of position.

>>937129

>extend the tether

What kind of tether are we talking about here? Rope?

>>937137
>The blimp wouldn't be for transport or overflow
So it's god no practical application outside tourism. I've never heard tourists complain 'yes, Springfield was nice but the blimp sightseeing was too slow.' Perhaps you have.

>>937153
if the train moves slowly, then you tether it to a car infront of the tunnel and untether from the car entering the tunnel. And once the tunnel is gone you reverse the process.

You have a point for if the train is going fast, but there are work arounds.


>>937157
Blimps are slow. Think about how much more you could see if it wasn't slow.
You don't complain about a saddle being attached to a horse because of the nature of a saddle.

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A solution to all of these problems is a TRAINGLIDER or GLIDERTRAIN, I'm not sure which is which.

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To any newfag who doesn't get the idea, its just supposed to be a sightseeing ride for tourists. The tram on the tracks carries the winch and cable that pulls the blimp along.

Hell, I would fund the shit out of a BlimpTrain system for the Grand Canyon, especially since all the noise complaints for those helicopter tours.

>>937133
>>937137
>>937157
>>937263
>Implying blimptrain has a purpose
Why can't you just appreciate BlimpTrain for what it is?

>>936786
The picture clearly shows a raised track, it would just go over the hill

>>937263
Why not just a blimp?

>>937286
blimps are slow, inneficient, unyieldy, and get fucked by slight wind.
Tethering a blimp to a train solves all of its faults and highlights its advantage, a good view.

>>937287
>What is a helicopter

you would never get FAA approval for that

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>>936781

I swear i've seen this mentioned in almost every thread I have seen within /n/.

Specifically those two recent threadsthat were 404'd, the Flying Ships and Intergalactic Rail Travel I believe?

>>937292
helicopters are noisy
helicopters require notably more fuel

>>937123
>In favorable conditions the blimp could serve as a sail/kite to pull the train.
And that means you'd be towing around something capable of pulling the train around in unfavorable conditions. Safety? What's that?

>>937296
http://www.chem.hawaii.edu/uham/part101.html
FAA doesn't have to approve shit as long as you follow the rules.

>>937997
You can't "moor" a balloon to a moving train. That's not what that word means.

Does anyone have the bike that you pedal with both hands and legs whole lying down?

>>938000
Why can't the anchor system move? I think it would be ok. The blimp train™ doesn't even need two rails. I think it could work as a unique sightseeing opportunity.

>>938067
because that would be a 'tether' and not a 'moor', which is not allowed for balloons under those regulations

if you want to parasail people off of a train, then go right ahead, the FAA has your back on that one

>>938071
The solution is to put a small parasail on the blimptrain and call it an enclosed safety parasail.

>>938071
>because that would be a 'tether' and not a 'moor'

Ok, thanks

this thread cheered me up, thanks anon

>>938366
I love threads like this too. Just nonsensical shenanigans.

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>>936786
You can just trans-ship the BlimpTrain around such obstacles.

>>936981
I thought the blimp was pulling the train. WTF you blow my mind.

What kind of blimp would we need to combine it with HSR?

All the speed of a blimp, all the aerial flexibility of a train.

>>938455
When we go in to production would you like to be in charge of advertising?

>>938457
Yes please.

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>>938453
It would need a super stiff outer shell and specially designed tethers that keep the blimp stable and pointed in the correct direction. Would also need wind tunnel work.
Maybe the blimp would also benefit from computer aided stability control as well.

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>>936786
Magnet

>>938588
That's brilliant

>>938000
As long as it remains tethered, I'm pretty sure the FAA would still consider it to be Part 101.
Should I send them a clarification letter to find out?
>>938071
Parasailing is regulated by Part 101(B) - "Moored Balloons and Kites" - despite the fact that they are tethered to a moving vehicle. Logically, if a Parasail is a "moored kite," Blimptrain would be a "moored balloon" and fall under the same subpart.

>>938646
>Should I send them a clarification letter to find out?

Oh god, do it. And scan the reply letter in and post it.

Also, you seem really knowledgeable about this stuff. Are you a pilot or something?

>>938626
>>938588
... That could actually work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IANBoybVApQ

>>938675
>And scan the reply letter in and post it.
No need, to my knowledge they publish all clarification letters anyways so that they don't get swamped with repeated questions of the same nature. Here's the relevant letter for parasails:
http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/agc/pol_adjudication/agc200/interpretations/data/interps/2011/mcculloh-parasailsafety%20-%20(2011)%20legal%20interpretation.pdf
>Are you a pilot or something?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUWhjjfOFec

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>>938723
>No need, to my knowledge they publish all clarification letters anyways so that they don't get swamped with repeated questions of the same nature. Here's the relevant letter for parasails:
Better than the ATF's policy of 'opinion letters are legally meaningless and only applicable to the moment they are written in. Oh, and we get to go backsies on them whenever we want.
But they are legitimate whenever we want to use them to fuck with the citizenry and illegitimate whenever they show our incompetence or contempt for liberty/consistency/basic logic'.
Ex: According to the ATF, shoestrings were not machineguns. But then they changed their mind, and literally declared shoestrings to be machineguns.

>tl;dr
Why does the FAA get so much hate? (besides the laser pointer meme and 'near misses ;)' with 'drones' things)

>>938646
The rules are different for balloons vs. kites. A balloon must be "moored to the surface of the earth or an object thereon". A kite is merely "flown at the end of a rope or cable".

>>938700
Good god, that's mind blowing.

>>938866
Even moreso when you realize that they are only thinking in 2 dimensions by using two (technically 3) out of 6 axis when they could be using 4 (technically 5).

Read as: They are only creating domains aligned perpendicular to the face, they could be angling for additional interesting results/possibilities.

>>938869
I love /sci/ence
I should visit there more often.

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>>936786
just cut a slit through the top and create a mechanism to funnel the tether through the slit, kinda like this

>>938924
>just lift the keystone away and the problem will solve itself
Well ... yes, in a way. Not the way you think.

>>938929

Don't you even magnets bro?

Isn't blimp a funny word

>>938700
Fucking magnets. fucking miracles.

Why not use the blimp to lift the train over the tunnel. Put some flaps and shit on it. And make it big. Like huge. You can fit more people on it too.

>>938947
First thing I thought of was a magnetic keystone. The tether can't be metallic tho.

>>938971
Blimps have shit lift: weight ratio. You could never lift a train

I think that Blimp Train™ would work best in wide open spaces for sightseeing.

>>938979
>The tether can't be metallic tho.
The tether can't be magnetic.

>>938986
I know that anon.

>>938979
>I think that Blimp Train™ would work best in wide open spaces for sightseeing.
that is the entire point of BLIMPTRAIN™. I think anon above had the best idea when he said grand canyon.

>>939012
Feel like we should make a thread on /biz/
4chan inc.

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>>936786
I've solved it
The answer is another train

>>939304
Spoiler this filth

>>939304
It's brilliant!

what program are you using btw?

>>939314
That's 100% Paint
Recognize the stock thought bubble graphic with the tail cut off cleverly repurposed to break up an otherwise unsightly empty space

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>>939304
Might as well make the train fly as well.

>>939323
I have heard maglev is the future, this checks out

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>>939324
>One step closer to everyone's dream come true.
Yes.

>>939304
The tunnel's shadow it's a nice touch.

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what about attaching the cable via drone, so it can pay out and reconnect via a magnet when you reattach. Plus run power thru thr cable and feed electric motor to the blimp?

Would the blimp slow down the train since the blimp is fuckuge and airrisitance and stuff.

Basically you'd have a giant kyte filled with highly flamable gas and people in it. Seems nice for a tourist attraction..

There is a reason why nobody travels by blimp anaymore

>>941824
>filled with highly flamable gas

they only used hydrogen in the Hindenberg because wartime germany couldn't produce enough helium. Nobody uses hydrogen anymore.

>There is a reason why nobody travels by blimp anaymore

it's because planes are faster and idiots think blimps are all filled with flammable gas.

http://airshipcenter.com/

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>>941850
>idiots think blimps are all filled with flammable gas.

but they are

>>941770
Wtf no anon. Skip the drone and attach propellers directly to the blimp.
We're designing a blimp train™

>>941850
>they only used hydrogen in the Hindenberg because wartime germany couldn't produce enough helium.

I almost called you out on this but then I remembered they were involved in Spain.

>>941891
>helium
>noble gas
>flammable

>>941940
>I remembered they were involved in Spain.

I don't feel like looking it up but I seem to recall that they usually imported their helium but there was some kind of embargo. you'd think the germans, being so logical, would've nixed the idea of hydrogen out-of-hand, but they thought it would be stable in the zeppelin. or they were just too greedy to refund all the tickets.

>>941952
They actually had a great track record using hydrogen, and probably didn't want to scrap the project just because they couldn't get helium. In exchange they could have some more room inside the Hindenburg since it didn't need so much space for gas bags.

>>941955
>gas bags

There's a joke in there somewhere about passengers but I'm too tired to think strait.

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>>941955
>>941952
>>941940
No, we've established this.
Blimptrain is lifted with pure neon.

The reduced lifting capacity is necessary for its forward aerodynamics.

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Casual Bump.

>>944772
>A train
>Of blimps
Guys... we've been going about this wrong all along.

>>936786
Drones attached to the tether that detach approaching a tunnel and help to guide the blimp along and help to realign and reattach to the train when the tunnel is cleared.

>>936781
Ahh yes, combining the worst of two worlds. genius.

>>945963
Go back to smelling sweaty assholes and balls in the peleton.

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>>945113

>>945965
wat

>>945982
Calling that anon out as a grumpy bikefag.
I just learned that a peleton is the group of riders in a race that are in a pack. It's gotta stink.

Blimps are glorified balloons.
We need RIGID airships

>>945113
What's a BlimpShip then?

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>>949030
Wait-

>>949030
Just a regular blimp. It's an airship.

>>949030
see
>>938401

>>949310
Guess I was wrong, it's not just an airship. I forgot that was posted.

>>949429
>1328x855
That's a big tree

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>>949433
He didn't fly so good.

>>949457
>No train
I found the problem

>>949433
For you

>>949457
Oh look, a blimp crash! Now we must magically discard the idea of all LTA air craft! Because one crashed, or two, or 10. It's not like cars crash all the time, or airplanes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMAMvoMnWhU

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>>949761
Calm down, that was just some friendly baneposting.

>>950619
Kek, that pic.

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Zeppelins are soooo comfy inside

>>952703
Thought that was a jet engine at first, had to do a double take.

>>952709
That's neat. Love pics like this.

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>>952765

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>>952765
.

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The funny thing is, the Hindenburg only costed 3 million to built back in 1931, accounting for inflation that is about 40 million today. For comparison, a single Boeing 747 goes for about 360 million.

>>952864
It could be used for tourism and cruising. I can already imagine it: the central europe blimp cruise. If what you said is true, it's not an impossible idea.

>>952858
>>952860
thank you based anon

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>>936786
fucking R

fucking E

fucking K

fucking T

fucking T

>>952863

It was probably the height of design at the time, but the liberal use of aluminium furniture to save weight always made the Hindenburg look tacky to me.

>>953120
That's cool, technically advanced for the time. What looks tacky to you?

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>>937263

>It sure sucks that this helicopter is noisy
>Oh I know, let's install a fucking train!

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>>952864

>It's incredible how much cheaper a clumsy air-boat that went down in a giant fireball was than a modern commercial aircraft that can carry passengers virtually anywhere on earth within a functionally useful timeframe

Thank you for the enlightening observation, anon.

>>953213
Why are you directly comparing the performance of 1930's aircraft with modern aircraft?

>>953213
>clumsy air boat
>made hundreds of transatlantic flights through all kinds of weathers
>only one accident ever happened
I think the Hindenburg might have a better safety record than many modern planes.

>>953249

Because somebody directly compared their inflation-adjusted cost.

>>953280

Interesting question. Would be interesting to run the real numbers.

>>953280
If only helium were plentiful. No huge manatee and we'd still have commercial airships in some form.

The Hindenburg was originally made to use helium but the americons didn't want to sell the helium to the national socialists in Germany.

>>953342
>If only helium were plentiful.
It's actually pretty common; Natural gas contains significant amounts of Helium.

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>>938588
SOON

>>954341
I thought prices were going up for things like MRI machines etc because it's still technically a finite resource and still has to be extracted , processed etc

>>955643
Why not just make a slit through the top of the tunnel?

>>956253
I don't think it would be practical to cut a hole in every tunnel and hill in the world
Magnets however...

>>956256
>implying any of this is practical

>>956253
see
>>938924
>FUCK YOU

>>956627
idk why it said 'fuck you' but ignore that

>>956628
I've had that happen to me before as well. I'll click on a post number and it will quote something even though I never highlighted any text. No idea why.

>>956644
I control+f'd 'fuck you' to find the post I linked him and it added it into my post for some reason

Ladies and gentlemen

I present to you

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BLIMPTRAIN

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>>957524

>>957524
Oh history, you so cray.

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>>955643
WIP
(Sorry for bad quality, college PC had no recording software)

>>957961
That's awesome. What did you use?

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>>957978
I made the models on Blender, then ported it into 3DS Max for animation and lighting because Blender is a shit at lighting/animation

Have a dorifto train

>>957985
>NIGHT OF FIRE.png
kekking

>>957524
Oh jeez oh boy this is the best

>>958014
I...I don't get it

>>958048
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNveMjoSxp0
Look at the badboy drift on that train

>>>/wsg/1083258 for similar stuff

>>958050
Thanks anon

blimpo bump

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nothing beats walking through an airship

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>>960643

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nothing beats standing on an airship

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nothing beats crashing in an airship

>>960643
>>960644
I imagine tripping and gentled tangled/mangled in all that wire & metal would suck.

>>960643
>Maybe we could put like a safety net there or something..?
>Nah fuck that. Watch your step or suffer the consequences.

So what /n/ memes do we have by now?

>Where in Japan is this
>Blimptrain
>F40PH

Anything else? Is Milwaukee road dieselization a meme yet?

>>960652
Bepsi

>>960652
>Where in Japan is this
I've been here for years, and i've never seen this meme. I've heard of it, but never actually seen it in action.

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we shall built a fleet of airships comrades, forward, through labour and cooperation, defeat the capitalists!

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>>960652

There was TITE GAPZ a while back referring to fixie bikes with stupidly narrow handlebars, but I haven't seen it for a while.

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>>960652
Don't forget our resident crazy and board mascot.

>>960684
i love baconrider

>>960646
Kek

The inside girders you posted look so neat. You can see the holes put in them to save weight but keep strength. Wonder who figured that one out.

>>960652
Disc rotors are dangerous maybe? I saw a whole thread about it.

>>960654
>>960655
Hate to admit this but I don't know what they are.

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This is how the crew slept on the giant airships

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nothing beats checking gas valves on an airship

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nothing beats steering an airship

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nothing beats cooking in an airship

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nothing beats going on a reconnaissance mission in a blimp

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>>960709

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>>960712

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>>960717

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>>960718
nothing beats reloading depth bombs on a blimp

>>960703
Cozy

>>960705
This is really cool.

>>960706
Damn, this is a legit kitchen.

>>960721
Neat, didn't know they did sub hunting operations. But I thought depth charges were bigger...

>>960684
God bless Bacon, the only tripfag I respect.

>>960804
that's not a depth charge, thats a flare
but they did carry depth charges on blimps, and they did hunt submarines with them

http://www.blimpinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/The-Battle-Between-the-Blimp-and-the-Sub.pdf

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nothing beats being a maintenance crew member on an airship

>>960934
Thanks for the clarification.
>>960976
That's got to be one hell of a view.

>>960934
Holy shit that story is amazing. The further I read the faster I read. That's just so intense. And then when you thought the danger was over, sharks. Wew lad.
10/10 would read again

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>>957985
Is of rendering
Should have the video by next week

>>961070
I like where this is going

>>961070
I genuinely hope you're using this for some sort of school project.

>>961381
I am, it's for a college project
The tutor loves it

>>961383
That's awesome. Sounds like your professor is based.

>>961383
Get a business major to pitch the concept to the class

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>>960719
this fucking guy

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>>961070
this is ridiculous in the best way

>>960652
Tite Gapz is the only other definite meme I can think of that is specifically /n/. "Forever Shinkansen" is now an /n/ mainstay but I'm not sure it can really be considered a meme. Maybe ALL ABOAAAAARD but that, amusing as it was, was admin-forced and fizzled pretty quickly after the sound was taken down. The rest is just hand-me-down memes (or "memes") from the broader cycling and trainfag communities.

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So sad that the US had a helium embargo on the Hindenburg, I bet it was because of Joo-lobbying

So what happens when winds are blowing perpendicular to the track? unless the blimp is tiny this would cause the train to derail.

Blimp train is stupid and a cancer of /n/ like bikes.

>>962341
>Hurr trains are light and can be knocked over like dominoes :^)
You realize a locomotive weighs like a quarter million pounds? Even if we assume it only takes a tenth of that to derail the train, that's still about 200+ knots worth of wind and drag acting on a Zeppelin-NT sized envelope.

>>962347

>hurrduur blimps are tiny and tottally don't have gigantic crosswind forces on them.

honestly just stop posting and learn anything

>>962374
Zepplin NT is a large blimp and can go 77 mph on 600 HP. Assuming PERFECT propeller efficiency (which isn't true at all), the MAXIMUM amount of thrust that can be produced with 600 HP at 77 mph is still less than 3,000 pounds of thrust (it's physics, yo). And since drag = thrust in the case of level top-speed flight, it's safe to assume that only 3,000 pounds of drag would be produced in 77 mph winds.

Now, drag is proportional to the square of speed, so we can further find that at 200 knots (230 mph) wind speed, the drag on Zeppelin NT will be only about 26,000 lbf of drag.

By comparison, according to (http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/rolling-stock/flange-climb-derailments-causes-and-prevention.html), the L/V ratio needed to get a train to hop the flange and derail is typically greater than 0.75; in other words, that blimp needs to pull sideways on the car with 75% of the car's entire weight to get it to derail. And from the looks of things, even if you bring this thing through a fucking hurricane, that ain't happening.

>>962443
>HP
Please re-read the SI brochure

>>962510
Kek

>>938588
Fucking magnets, how do they work.

>>962443

BTFO
T
F
O

WERE GOING DOWN WERE GOING DOWN!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERI8_cprgMo

>>962564
I'm givin 'er all she's got, captain!


https://youtu.be/DiETI5-Pvw8
Fucking news, I swear

> comparing the Goodyear to the Hindenburg

>>961070

Godspeed you magnificent bastard.

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>>961070
This is probably my greatest achievement
With sound:
https://my.mixtape.moe/uextkf.webm
https://my.mixtape.moe/uextkf.webm
https://my.mixtape.moe/uextkf.webm

>>963450
holy shit. this is a fucking landmark for /n/.

>>963450
>And lo! The Blimp Train was cast, and utilising the supreme power of magnets it conquered its greatest foe: Ye tunnel of despair.

BaconRider 3:12

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>>963450
holy fuck
we've done it again, /n/

>>963450
nice meme

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>>963450
For the sake of the board, did another render without my personal logo that I was using since it was a college project.
Enjoy!
https://my.mixtape.moe/gnrskp.webm
https://my.mixtape.moe/gnrskp.webm
https://my.mixtape.moe/gnrskp.webm

>>962253
I would argue that the Zeppelins were safer precisely because they used hydrogen. The Hindenburg was the only one to go up in flames and that's because it was being flown in weather its crew was under specific instructions from the manufacturer to avoid. I'd personally argue the added buoyancy is worth it in a non-military application.

>>963450
ebin meme/ebin meme

Way to deliver anon.

>>963481
best post

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A member of the airshipforum is giving a way copies of his own airship e-books for free for anyone interested

http://www.airshipcenter.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=288

>>963481
the music is perfect.

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>>963481
>dat music

>>963836
Looks sketchy

>>963481
Can you please do one with no intro (starting from BLIMP TRAIN) and no music? For repost value

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>>964018
Here's a postable version of the one with the /n/ logo
I'll cut down and render a new vid tomorrow with what you wanted

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>>964066
Don't sweat it, you've done enough

>>964066
What did you get for a grade on this? I think it's awesome your professor let you do it.

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>>964013
what?

>>964154
Sketchy as in getting a virus

>>964216
No virus, it's just pdf

>>964216
That member is a good contributor, go to the links of his amazon ebooks then

>>964125
I submitted it yesterday, I'm waiting till Monday for my grade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWpdUuMRgAk

>>964244
If you get anything lower than an A the education system has failed you

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>>963481

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What about BLIMPCABLECAR?

>>965342
What's stefan's pussy have to do with anything?
I can't read that shit.

>>964564
I got my grade, turns out it's just pass or fail
Tutor said mines was his favourite and he put it on the college showreel

>>965985
>Tutor said mines was his favourite and he put it on the college showreel

I'd say that qualifies as an A+
Way to go m8, you put an /n/ meme on a college showreel for the professor's course.

>>963481
I think it needed eurobeat and a multitrack drifting part.

>>966376
Oh god, this

>>965985
What was the assignment, anyway? Just 3D animation? Or were you supposed to propose the BEST TRANSPORTATION EVER IN THE FUTURE?

>>966613
Just an open project on 3D animation, could be anything

Also I went in for the last day today and said goodbye to my tutor, he said I got the animator of the year award
Based Blimp Train making dreams reality

>>966636
lol nice

>>966636
I'm taking this as proof that a working blimp train will be deployed by the end of the 21st century

>>966636
BlimpTrain is love. BlimpTrain is life.

I'm sorry but I can't let this thread die.

>>970744
At this point all we need to do is keep this thread alive until the 1000000 get and /n/ will have fulfilled its purpose

Hey modeler dude. You want to try your hand at an animated 4chan banner?

>>970920
This!

>>972252
qek

>>970920
A Blimp Train banner?

Bumpo for blimpo , gr8 thread lads

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>>952864
You can't say that becaude labour was a lot cheaper back then than now, plus security and safety was not a option back then

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>>972421
This needs to happen. Check out the post I made in the banner thread. Maybe someone can make it.

>>970886
>Blimp Train

We need this. Anon made an epic webm of one going through the tunnel while the magnet uncoupled, followed over the mountain and then reconnected with the train.
I have no idea how to make it but I hope someone does. It's too epic not to.
Link
>>974995
>>974995

>>953212
>What is electricity?

>>953212
Leaving aside the fact that trains can be quieter than helicopters, the fact that the source of the noise is on the ground would prevent it from propagating over as wide an area. The folks enjoying the sightseeing would barely hear it at all.

Today, I took it upon myself to visit every board on 4chan. This is the first time I've visited this one. What have I just wandered into?

>>978161
You have wandered into greatness my friend.

>>937374
>what are brakes

>>978161
Autistic train foamers
Autistic lycra clad bikefags
And some plane and boats once in awhile

>>960976
Now that really looks like a dream job.

>>978558
Don't forget bluto the longshoreman with the 87 IQ

>>953280
lol no, The hindenburg made only 63 flights before it exploded, 747 lasts up to 35,000 cycles

Graf Zeppelin made about 2000 flights or so and was about as big as the Hindenburg and filled with hydrogen, was dismantled because parts were needed for fighter aircraft, and that was for 30s technology.

I just be sayin'

#BlimpTrain

>>978161
>>978558
>Autistic train foamers
>Autistic lycra clad bikefags
>And some plane and boats once in awhile
..and then there THIS faggot, who hates everything, but reads and posts piss and vinegar in every thread anyway because HE HAS NO LIFE

>>978558
This is the angry boatfag who went on an axe rampage today in Germany because he hates trains

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SOLVED
blimp ship to go around all your tunnels and continue transatlantic trip to india for spices and mons

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>>972421
>>970920
>>974996

already made one BUT

someone fucking deleted it and i couldnt make it to the voting sesh

anyways here it is again

>>939325
I-is that the c-concept of a railgun taken literally?

>>982735
Well...yes and no.

>>982617
The problem is it drains the battery and crashes every day

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Today we are making fun of blimptrain.
In 19th century this was serious engineering.

>>986916
>use helium balloons for upward traction
>need no fuel
>just counterweight like water tanks
that's... actually pretty ingenious

>>986939
>suddenly
>a gust of wind

>>986947
jej

>>986916

I'm not quite sure how those two trains are supposed to pass each other on that narrow track.

>>986954
Maybe they don't? Maybe they just go up and down together.
>>986916
>implying we're not serious

>>965444

D E A D
E
A
D

Question: Does FRA regs or FAA regs govern the operation of the blimptrain in the US?

Does the blimp portion of the blimptrain need to be equipped with Part 223 glazing?

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>>936781
BBC had a cool article the other day about the interior of an airship and patching robots.

>>989081
It's like a giant bouncy castle.

>>963450
>>963481
Why not just make the tunnel big enough for the blimp to be pulled through?
Or just squeeze it through? It's a giant balloon.

I feel like the best place for B L I M P T R A I N is the grand canyon.
Opinions?

>>992042
I agree, it's a great application imo.

>>962189
>>960652
90's rigid mtb with slicks?

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>>960652
And also SI-guy.