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 Post subject: Blimps!
PostPosted: 29 Oct 2009 06:48 
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Anybody out there into RC airships?


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 Post subject: Re: Blimps!
PostPosted: 29 Oct 2009 11:32 
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Hello Mike,

Just confirming your first posting and welcoming you aboard.

I have never built an airship or a dirigeable but if you have, you would have no problem interesting me to build one.

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 Post subject: Re: Blimps!
PostPosted: 02 Nov 2009 16:25 
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There is a lot of exciting new technology for RC airships. We have been flying 13' and 20' blimps outdoors, in the wind, Unteathered! check out our site lot of good pics. www.fotoblimp.com


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 Post subject: Re: Blimps!
PostPosted: 08 Nov 2009 09:12 
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I was thinking about one but... they are to sensitive for crosswinds so nearly only to fly indoor!
You can get big once but they are expensive and even the Helium filling for them is

I love the way they look and fly in the Air..but think not a Modell for me right now

regards Uwe

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 Post subject: Re: Blimps!
PostPosted: 08 Nov 2009 17:22 
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Mike wrote:
Anybody out there into RC airships?


Mike,

You did not respond to my second posting so I removed it.

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 Post subject: Re: Blimps!
PostPosted: 08 Nov 2009 21:10 
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Sadly it´s the way of internet forums, Paul - I think Mike´s only intention, judging by a previous post that I removed, was to get a link to his site. Spamming is another name for it ;-)

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 Post subject: Re: Blimps!
PostPosted: 12 Nov 2009 17:37 
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like maccuahm said blimping is expensive. the foto blimp is just a way we are trying to make some money back. Our blimps are powerful, we clocked the big one at 35 mph that means any wind less than 35 is flyable. and I am looking into cheaper lifting gas.

sorry it took so long to get back. I would love to awnser all those questions you posted, but I have been working alot lately. It seems like actualy doing things is cutting into my time to talk about it on the internet.
I only posted the link because I lost the card for my camera phone and that was the easiest way to show you some pictures.

I am starting to build a set of control fins from balsa and monokote. like model airplane wings. this will be my first atempt a this kind of construction I thought I could find some advice here. sadly it is the way of internet forums for people make accusations about people they don't know. and act high and mighty if the have the power to remove posts. if i wanted someone to judge my intentions i would have gone to my ex girlfriends for advice.


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 Post subject: Re: Blimps!
PostPosted: 12 Nov 2009 18:49 
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sadly it is the way of internet forums for people make accusations about people they don't know. and act high and mighty if the have the power to remove posts.


Mike, my removal of your first post a while ago was quite justified as far as I'm concerned - you came in with no introduction to yourself, you merely stated that the info on my rc blimps page was out of date without stating any facts to back that up, and ended the sentance with a "check out my site". It came across as a black and white commercial spam post. Need I say more??

The rules and guidelines to this forum, if you'd care to read them, make it quite clear that this is a friendly and respectful forum, contrary to what you clearly think, and that single posts that appear as nothing more than a commercial plug won't be accepted. Yours was, I'm afraid to say, exactly that.

So please drop the "high and mighty" accusations and be a welcome member of this forum by contributing some useful blimp info, as you just have in your last reply, instead of just plugging your site.

As for my 'spamming' comment above, that was justified too. Come in, post a link and then disappear. What are we supposed to think ??

And by the way, I actually do have the power to remove posts! :twisted:

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 Post subject: Re: Blimps!
PostPosted: 17 Nov 2009 21:59 
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I'm NOT trying to sell anything!

Just wanted to show some pics of outdoor flying blimps. it seems like most people have never seen one and don't think its possable.
look up mini zep on you tube. some crafty european guys are getting some excelent arial photography

here are some teathered and RC blimps that I built. all 20 footers


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