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I thought I’ve seen every old photo from the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 until this one cropped up. A gem! And a massive panoramic too.
found by Aric Mackey
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Here are some pix of the tetrahedral kite designed by Alexander Graham Bell like the one I used to shoot the videos:
http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/kites/tetra/100cell/p24.jpg
http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/kites/tetra/100cell/p13.jpg
http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/kites/tetra/100cell/p27.jpg
This monster will collapse and fit into a case roughly the size of a golf club bag. Grab that kevlar line and let’s fly!!
This is an old (and unfortunately small) pic of Bell himself flying one:
http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/kites/tetra/bell/bell3.jpg
It was taken from a tethered balloon not a blimp. The blimp was invented in 1917.
Wrong, there were blimps before 1900.
In 1852, Henri Giffard built the first powered airship, which consisted of a 143-ft (44-m) long, cigar-shaped, gas-filled bag with a propeller, powered by a 3-horsepower (2.2-kW) steam engine. Later, in 1900, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin of Germany invented the first rigid airship.
http://travel.howstuffworks.com/blimp4.htm
seen it a long time ago – good pic, in better detail that the last time i saw it (aka printed vs. on a website). thanks for the link!