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We in A2 had the pleasure of not one but two Goodyear Blimps circling today. I love these things. Shot through a screen window.
Living close to the Smyrna Airport, one sees all kinds of interesting flying machines. From blimps to Blue Angels.
i wish i had a camera with a fast enough shutter speed to take picture of bunny binkies - right now they look like ghosts or blimps
Spotted this blimp circling the speedway in Charlotte and decided to get a fees photos of it as it circled the ZMax Dragway in Charlotte, North Carolina on Saturday April 14, 2012.
These are from May Weekend on the Quinn campus... yes, I know it's not May yet. Anyway, May Weekend is a synonym for drunken debauchery. I had to sneak in. No grad students allowed!
The Goodyear Blimp has been hovering around outside for about half an hour, so I thought I'd get some good shots as it passed over Miami Beach, Biscayne Bay and downtown Miami, Florida.
The Good Year blimp flying over the Home Depot Center in Carson, CA during the MLS CUP match between the Columbus Crew and New York Red Bull. The Crew won 3-1 to earn their first MLS Title...
This is, or was, the advertising blimp for a Pittsburgh newspaper, and it is filled with hot air , not helium. That has advantages:it's less costly to run, and you can inflate it in a field and get up there quickly.
The newspaper has a reputation for being very right wing, and the idea that a right wing newspaper has chosen an aircraft full of hot air for advertising...well, I can't even BEGIN to mine that rich vein of comic potential....
Note to self: when shooting the largest wooden structure in the world, maybe include something that conveys scale. So, I didn't do that, but I uploaded this anyway because the Tillamook Air Museum is just so friggin' cool, and everyone should go check it out.
The patchwork effect is the oxidized sheet metal that covers the wooden frame.
Shot of the framing of one of the blimp hangers in Tustin. Largest wooden structure in the world! Or so I'm told.
Jed Berk graciously offered to show us the flocking blimp project he and his colleagues have been working on. The blimps are kitted out with a small SunSpot — a Sun made sensor platform with some processing power, accelerometers, bluetooth and other stuff. The blimps have behaviors that include indicating that they are hungry. They bellow a call that's evocative of whale calls. (A cellphone vibrator is attached to the helium filled envelope. Sound travels faster and with peculiar resonance when it propogates through a mylar envelope filled with helium, so it's quite a resonant call. Each is somewhat unique.)
You feed the blimps (all of which are named, although I don't recall them), using a feeding sculpture composed of a fiber optic bristle that vibrates and blinks when the blimp is feeding. A trailing LED on the blimp goes from blue to red when it's done chowing down. It then goes on its way.
Really well-thought out project!
The Goodyear Blimp attempting to land at the Dinwiddie Airport. The blimp was in the area for the NASCAR Race in Richmond, Virginia
Christmas 2010
Having never built a gingerbread house before for Christmas, I decided to build something related to motorsports instead, and so with the help of my friends Steffi and Jackie, we built this edible version of Suzuka Circuit in Japan.
It was nearly complete after a few weeks of on and off mild work on it, and it sat on my dining table for a couple of months before I finally took pictures of it as I needed to reclaim the space. I hope you enjoy looking at the pics as much as we enjoyed building it.
Ingredients used:
-Oreo cookie crumbs for the track itself
-Red and white Tic Tac for curbs
-Green/pink/white marshmellows to match the Green/red/white barriers
-Green cake decorative sugar for the grass
-Graham crackers with icing and sprinkles for the stands and people and paddock
-Straw and sprinkles for the timing pole + lights on the front straight
-Missing: Ferris Wheel
**It sat for a while so nothing on it was really safe to be eaten