quote:That's alright fill the leading edge with hydrogen and have the chance it explode in flames like the historic ZEPPLIN over londen. For those that don't know what I'm talking about it's the blimp that exploded in flames and killed hundreds of on lookers in the 50's or 60's.Just made kiteboarding more extreme
Originally posted by jquigley
It does sound like a dumb idea and not an original one and not one that hasn't had the piss taken before - see below
www.anl.gov/education/learning-center
Would be a bit handy to have a kite that floated though.
Did a little googling and found the following facts.
Density of air 1kg/m cubed
Density of helium 0.137kg/m
Density of hydrogen 0.069kg/m
So technically if you could make a kite with one cubic metre displacement and weighed less than 0.93kg before inflation it would float if you filled it with hydrogen to 1 Atm. Make it a bit lighter and you can pump it up to 15 psi or whatever.
How to get the volume in the kite? Maybe have a full shape from LE to TE, like a plane wing.
How to make a kite strong enough and that light? F**K KNOWS
I think i might have just wasted half an hour.
Happy kiting
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Originally posted by Oakie
Nice work.
Has anyone seen this...
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Originally posted by user
OR THIS !
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Originally posted by cRAZY Canuk
Just think what you'd look like walking down the beach kite under one arm helium bottle under the other.
And what are you going to do with it once you go out, the whole beach would sound like donald duck.
hillarious !!!!!
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Originally posted by BoDiddly
Sure, anyone up for getting your mate to drill a hole in your head in your 2nd bedroom just for kicks? then talk about smoking pot and saying how every thing is clearer and you remember your drams'n'sh!t, then realise that it didn't work! I'm IN!
How the crap did you find that User!?quote:
Originally posted by user
OR THIS !
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Originally posted by user
You could try this !
www.clusterballoon.org/learning/learning.htm
OR THIS !
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Originally posted by jock74quote:That's alright fill the leading edge with hydrogen and have the chance it explode in flames like the historic ZEPPLIN over londen. For those that don't know what I'm talking about it's the blimp that exploded in flames and killed hundreds of on lookers in the 50's or 60's.Just made kiteboarding more extreme
Originally posted by jquigley
It does sound like a dumb idea and not an original one and not one that hasn't had the piss taken before - see below
www.anl.gov/education/learning-center
Would be a bit handy to have a kite that floated though.
Did a little googling and found the following facts.
Density of air 1kg/m cubed
Density of helium 0.137kg/m
Density of hydrogen 0.069kg/m
So technically if you could make a kite with one cubic metre displacement and weighed less than 0.93kg before inflation it would float if you filled it with hydrogen to 1 Atm. Make it a bit lighter and you can pump it up to 15 psi or whatever.
How to get the volume in the kite? Maybe have a full shape from LE to TE, like a plane wing.
How to make a kite strong enough and that light? F**K KNOWS
I think i might have just wasted half an hour.
Happy kiting
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Originally posted by echostormquote:
Originally posted by user
You could try this !
www.clusterballoon.org/learning/learning.htm
OR THIS !
news.bme.com/
LMFAO hahahaha... what do you do in ur spare time user
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Originally posted by jock74
That's alright fill the leading edge with hydrogen and have the chance it explode in flames like the historic ZEPPLIN over londen. For those that don't know what I'm talking about it's the blimp that exploded in flames and killed hundreds of on lookers in the 50's or 60's.Just made kiteboarding more extreme
) and he is on the money.. oh the inhumanity... 
quote:After a dozen bundy's spelling disappears and facts get blurred. Lucky I didn't leave in what i was going too write.
Originally posted by GreenPatquote:
Originally posted by jock74
That's alright fill the leading edge with hydrogen and have the chance it explode in flames like the historic ZEPPLIN over londen. For those that don't know what I'm talking about it's the blimp that exploded in flames and killed hundreds of on lookers in the 50's or 60's.Just made kiteboarding more extreme
When you say 'londen', do you mean London? Or do you mean Lakehurst, New Jersey, where the Hindenburg caught fire in 1937 killing 35 people? Hydrogen was blamed for the explosion, however subsequent studies have shown that it was more likely a static discharge igniting the fabric around the gas cells.
