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Operation: Goahead
Do you want to travel to other settlements?
Do you like the prospect of trading?
Do you hate plowing trough tons of zombies every time you want to make a excursion to the nearby town for supplies?
Do you like Unconventional methods of flight?!
Then this project is for you.
A apocalyptic even is a time where many old and by many considered impractical technology become viable.
The demands of our vehicles are totally different from those of a modern society and craft that are unpractical under normal circumstances can prove very useful indeed.
During early stages of my own Survival plan I speculated on how one would travel with the world swamped by zombies. I worried about traffic jams and the dangers of going by foot. That is when I hatched the Idea of building a Zeppelin to gain the power of flight. This is a technological feat not easily achieved but it is my opinion that you should speculate in all fields of zombie apocalism.
I call this Project Operation: Goahead. That is what I will name my zeppelin I where to build one and if you get the reference you shall have 5 gold stars.
The general scale of the zeppelin will be a crew of 5 people with additional 5 people in cargo space (80kg per person)
This is the different sections I had in mind
Feel free to add to any of these
Structure
Do you like the prospect of trading?
Do you hate plowing trough tons of zombies every time you want to make a excursion to the nearby town for supplies?
Do you like Unconventional methods of flight?!
Then this project is for you.
A apocalyptic even is a time where many old and by many considered impractical technology become viable.
The demands of our vehicles are totally different from those of a modern society and craft that are unpractical under normal circumstances can prove very useful indeed.
During early stages of my own Survival plan I speculated on how one would travel with the world swamped by zombies. I worried about traffic jams and the dangers of going by foot. That is when I hatched the Idea of building a Zeppelin to gain the power of flight. This is a technological feat not easily achieved but it is my opinion that you should speculate in all fields of zombie apocalism.
I call this Project Operation: Goahead. That is what I will name my zeppelin I where to build one and if you get the reference you shall have 5 gold stars.
The general scale of the zeppelin will be a crew of 5 people with additional 5 people in cargo space (80kg per person)This is the different sections I had in mind
Feel free to add to any of these
-Choosing settlement
-Hangar
-Lifting gas
-Hangar
-Lifting gas
-Envelope
-Structure
-Structure
-Gondola
-Steering
-Engine and Fuel
-Steering
-Engine and Fuel
-General Equipment
Each section can have different solutions and they will include all parts of the process from finding the raw material tho manufacturing methods. They will also contain some info on how the different parts where made during the Zeppelin era.
Disclaimer: In a normal Society there are Strict regulations of air space. Do not attempt to build anything larger than a scale model without the proper paperwork.
All information on this page is untested unless otherwise stated. There are no guarantees that any ideas here may actually work.
Choosing Settlement
Each section can have different solutions and they will include all parts of the process from finding the raw material tho manufacturing methods. They will also contain some info on how the different parts where made during the Zeppelin era.
Disclaimer: In a normal Society there are Strict regulations of air space. Do not attempt to build anything larger than a scale model without the proper paperwork.
All information on this page is untested unless otherwise stated. There are no guarantees that any ideas here may actually work.
Choosing Settlement
what kind ofenvironmentwould be best suited for zeppelin construction?
Hangar
A zeppelin needs a hangar for protection andmaintenance.
Lifting gas
what gas would be best and where would you find it?
Lifting gas
what gas would be best and where would you find it?
Envelope
Theballoonsthat contains the lifting gas. Possible fabrics and how to find/make them.
what kind of material would be best to make the rigid structure?
Gondola
Design suggestion?
Steering
This includes both vertical and horizontal steering. There needs to be a system to maintain the same weight. if the craft gets too heavy it will crash and if its too light it will shoot up into thestratosphereand suffocate the crew unless.
Engine and Fuel
The fuel type controls what kind of engine is used. loss of fuel should not change the weight of the craft unless there is a way to compensate.
Steering
This includes both vertical and horizontal steering. There needs to be a system to maintain the same weight. if the craft gets too heavy it will crash and if its too light it will shoot up into thestratosphereand suffocate the crew unless.
Engine and Fuel
The fuel type controls what kind of engine is used. loss of fuel should not change the weight of the craft unless there is a way to compensate.
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| TRENCHcoat666 | gas choice and helium production | 1 | Feb 11 2011, 2:47 PM EST by brandon_a_boyer | ||
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I like the idea for a dirrigible aircraft post z-day when things are being rebuilt. the concept has merit and should be discussed.i dont intend to shoot holes in your balloon (pun intended) but I personally would avoid using hydrogen whether the hindenburg blew because hydrogens flammable or the paint was spray on thermite doesnt matter hydrogen could be much more productive use as feul. Helium is safe and currently cheap but that is mostly because the US is selling off there left-over reserve from pre ww1 (see link later). I suggest more of a thermal airship design (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_airship).
If that is absolutely not what you want to do I submit this possibility Modern extraction and distribution For large-scale use, helium is extracted by fractional distillation from natural gas, which contains up to 7% helium. Since helium has a lower boiling point than any other element, low temperature and high pressure are used to liquefy nearly all the other gases (mostly nitrogen and methane). The resulting crude helium gas is purified by successive exposures to lowering temperatures, in which almost all of the remaining nitrogen and other gases are precipitated out of the gaseous mixture. Activated charcoal is used as a final purification step, usually resulting in 99.995% pure Grade-A helium.[5] The principal impurity in Grade-A helium is neon. In a final production step, most of the helium that is produced is liquefied via a cryogenic process. This is necessary for applications requiring liquid helium and also allows helium suppliers to reduce the cost of long distance transportation, as the largest liquid helium containers have more than five times the capacity of the largest gaseous helium tube trailers... Diffusion of crude natural gas through special semipermeable membranes and other barriers is another method to recover and purify helium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium hope this helps
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| Eritsukukun | Operation: Goahead (page: 1 2) | 38 | Jul 6 2010, 3:46 PM EDT by of.virtue | ||
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Thread started: Oct 17 2009, 4:50 PM EDT
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This is the new development page of Goahead.
Feel free to give any inputs and concerns. all post saying that this is a bad idea will be ignored because all involved are aware are aware of this All post giving information and ideas on how to make the plan work better or at all will be welcomed with much warmth. You can consider this a fun experiment rather than a survival plan
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| agentaaa | How well would a zeppelin work in cold conditions. | 4 | Nov 12 2009, 5:45 PM EST by agentaaa | ||
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I have looked around the net, and found no suitable answer, so now I will ask you people: At what temperature is a zeppelin unusable? The reason I ask is because I live in northern British Columbia in Canada, and my town regularly deals with -50 degrees Celsius in the coldest winter months.
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