More Dayton Pictures

airwarrior · 1 October 2009, 07:26 PM

Resting in pieces!

I hope you rebuild it. I followed your rebuild on RCSB, and it is a fantastic model.

ProfLooney · 1 October 2009, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by womenfly2

Thanks for sharing the pictures.

Now the Observation Balloon shoot down with flaming balloons, now that's clever!

Full size or model size?

It was 1 inch to the foot scale. it was 19 ft long and little over 7 ft tall. we filled a ton of balloons but ran out of helium. there was room for ton more balloons and woulda made it better next time will have more juice.

went through a full bottle of helium the size of an oxygen bottle for acetelene welding

Hannover · 2 October 2009, 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by ProfLooney

It was 1 inch to the foot scale. it was 19 ft long and little over 7 ft tall. we filled a ton of balloons but ran out of helium. there was room for ton more balloons and woulda made it better next time will have more juice.

went through a full bottle of helium the size of an oxygen bottle for acetelene welding

That was really awesome! I was telling my wife at the time that it would be cool to have yellow and red balloons come out to make it look like fire and, sure enough, that's what they were!
I hope you will do that again next time. I would also be happy to help defray the cost.

Jim

Hannover · 2 October 2009, 06:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Bookmaker

It WILL be rebuilt. SO it's only restING in peace

Dale.

That's good news!

Bookmaker · 2 October 2009, 06:55 AM

Thanks Jim.

I also agree the balloon was a real addition to the event.

When they were first trying to get the balloon to fly, I noticed the seam along the back, but didn't realize the purpose was to have it "explode". I really didn't realize what was going on while we were making passes at it. I was too busy trying to pop the balloons before they went back over the dead line.

The photos posted of the balloon going down in "flames" with the planes overhead are great.

Joe, what program is required to open your photos album? My system doesn't recognize the format.

Dale

Kaiser Bill · 2 October 2009, 07:22 AM

That baloon display was one of the most innovative and original ideas I've ever seen. The best part is ....its reusable!!! It can be "destroyed" over and over. Really neat!!

Take that idea "on the road".

Kaiser Bill

ProfLooney · 2 October 2009, 09:43 AM

dale they are rar files its what most ppl have gone to instead of zip as the compression factor is much greater. goto WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files and download winrar you can get rid of any other zipping programs after that as it does all formats of compression for unarchiving

airwarrior · 2 October 2009, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Kaiser Bill

That baloon display was one of the most innovative and original ideas I've ever seen. The best part is ....its reusable!!! It can be "destroyed" over and over. Really neat!!

Take that idea "on the road".

Kaiser Bill

Yeah! I'd love to see it at Rhinebeck!

JohnFitz · 5 October 2009, 10:09 PM

I like the spin on the Loening float plane it is very well done. Not that it matters but for those who may be interested here are a few photo's of the real one. Photo's are courtesy of Colin Owers.