I really do like Zeppelins - I even have a Zeppelin watch - so can’t wait for this project to be ready and fly in MSFS.
Where can I get one?
Zeppelines are truly awesome because you all can fly without being in need of having tenthousands over tenthousands of bucks at hand right now (or maybe even 100k upwards) just to spend for your hobby to build something to fly in your garden.
This is how you get your own personal Zeppelin:
All you need is a robust garden chair, a few dozens of helium-filled balloons, and two strong electrical RC plane engines with two propellers mounted to the left and the right behind the chair, a battery and two on off switches to control these propellers.
Awesome - using the same physics as a Zeppelin but better than any Zeppelin, don´t you think?
Oh I wish I had that awesome idea more early, that would have been an awesome summer project… But I am sure more than ten YouTubers have already build such a thing.
Quite a bit before youtube
And even older than that if you look at the bottom of the article in the other events section:
In 1937, Al Mingalone, an American photographer for Paramount News previously used 32 weather balloons for a feature photography assignment at Old Orchard Beach in Maine. While he hung suspended from the balloons by a parachute harness in order to take aerial film footage, Mingalone’s mooring rope broke and he was lifted approximately 700 feet (210 m) into the air. A clergyman, Father James J. Mullen, spotted the incident, and after a chase of some 13 miles (21 km), used a 22-caliber rifle to shoot out two of the balloons, thus allowing the photographer to return safely to the ground.[1]
Check this out, it is a very cool website how the watches are designed and some old Zeppelin footage : Zeppelin Watches • Made in Germany
I bought one in the UK, Zeppelin Watches | Official UK Stockist - Jura Watches but there are shops all over Europe.
They did this already. Aint you seen Up?
Technically that’s not a Zeppelin
Wait until you see all the enhancements I have planned for the AirChair2000
(Maybe it will not be as fast as the Hindenburgh but it is not designed for speed…)
What if you put a metal mesh around the balloons to make it more rigid?
Yeah, Schwarz made an attempt in the early years
it is WIP by redwing