KSP Airship! Part 1

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Robert Dodd

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Published on April 23, 2013 2:06:46 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL7EgSjYmvQ

Game:

Kerbal Space Program (2015)

Duration: 31:42

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Kerbal Space Program is Copyright Squad
https://kerbalspaceprogram.com/

Airships to Other Planets mod by Hooligan Labs
http://kerbalspaceport.com/hooligan-labs-airship-parts-and-plugin/

Firespitter propeller plane and helicopter parts v4.0 by Snjo aka Andreas Aakvik
http://kerbalspaceport.com/firespitter-propeller-plane-parts/


Today we take a page from the past, from the golden age of lighter-than-air travel, and create a solar and aviation-fuel-powered airship! Please extinguish all smoking materials before boarding the vehicle! :D

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
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U.S. Army Air Service recruiting video showing early U.S. airships and also the German passenger airship Bodensee
http://youtu.be/CT1rel9akuQ

Memorial website for the NS-11 airship
http://www.ns11.org/

Britain's answer to the great German passenger airships, the R-100. Unfortunately, with the R-101 disaster, the otherwise reasonably airworthy R-100 was scrapped.
http://youtu.be/k60YoKKiayE

Documentary on the Graf Zeppelin's Round-The-World flight, viewed from the perspective of a woman journalist on board.
http://youtu.be/d4jq7oRxw-g

The greatest airship, arguably the greatest single AIRCRAFT of any sort in history, the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin. The Ship With A Soul.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_127_Graf_Zeppelin
http://www.airships.net/lz127-graf-zeppelin

Hugo Eckener, greatest airship captain who ever lived.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Eckener

Of course, the Hindenburg. What is often overlooked is that the Hindenburg had 62 successful flights prior to the disaster. The audio on this clip is atrocious:
http://youtu.be/9Upy-8Bm_tw

Wikipedia article on the Hindenburg:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_airship

This movie had a very short section filmed on the Hindenburg just a short while before the disaster. Speed up to the 22 minute, 56 second mark.
http://youtu.be/t4DAkRiFM9w?t=22m49s


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A Penny For NASA - message your congressfolk and tell them you want more budget for space exploration!
http://www.penny4nasa.org/

"We Stopped Dreaming" by Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbIZU8cQWXc&feature

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