Having a good go over the Hydrogen Summit 2024, I decided to do another complete assembly test back at the base, mainly to get some nice pictures for our next step.
Apparently I’ve picked hottest day in Queensland’s winter (33C) and not just that, it’s been pretty windy as well. Huge thanks to Kristian that he made himself available and came to help! Thanks to him we did some more work on envelope, mainly as those envelope openings / sleeves were not being satisfactory and also cut main tubes to their final lengths.
Then, when inflated, we took it out to our cul-de-sac to take few pictures.
I also did a 360 video myself:
I think it looks awesome! Still few things missing:
- Tape closing the upper wedges is not sticking properly and needs some different idea on how to make it working
- The envelope openings are not sealed properly and I don’t like that system in general. That clearly needs replacing with something clever
- Intakes needs to be redesigned and printed again.
Finally, Seb did an awesome video with his DJI Mini 4 drone. If you’ll watch it long enough you’ll see how we’ve been transporting whole airship back to our carport.
As usual, huge thanks to a whole team, mainly to Kristian who spent practically whole Saturday putting this together and then back in pieces, Seb for his assistance & video, then Oli, Xavier and “a guy in red shorts” who made sure our airship haven’t flown away! 😀
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